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Figure 2 The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) is testing driverless army vehicles that will save lives.
in the St. Clair and Lapeer counties of Michigan to prepare for future driverless and connected vehicle development. Information Technology is critical to the success of defense. More than 20 years ago, the department of defense (DoD) funded the development of the ARPANET, the beginning of internet. Today, the cloud and IoT is center of attention of the industrial world. According to report published by the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program the deployment of IoT-related technologies by the military has primarily focused on applications for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and fire-control systems and is limited and poorly integrated. It is expected to get better over time. Wind River, a division of Intel, in its white paper, suggested the collaboration of DoD and technology companies to develop a military IoT platform in which network security is matter of life and death.
based SBCs and computer on modules (COM) solutions. Among these as Congatec, Extreme Engineering and Diamond Systems. Congatec provides the Qseven compatible Conga-UMX6 (NXP i.MX6 Dual ARM Cortex A9) and Conga-QMX6 (NXP i.MX6 ARM Cortex A9 processors) while Extreme Engineering offers ARM-based XMC/PrPMC mezzanine module, 3U OpenVPX SBC, 6U VME and 6U VPX SBC. Diamond for its part teamed up with Toradex to create a platform allowing ARM-based plug-in modules to be added. As technologies like security, IoT, driverless vehicles continue to expand, the defense market will want to leverage those in their system designs..
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ARM SBCs and COM Solutions As ARM-based computing becomes increasingly attractive to the defense market, more and more hardware manufacturers seek to provide more ruggedized ARMCOTS Journal | December 2016
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