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Cybersecurity Meets Physical Safety: Shoring-Up Weak Links in Critical Operations Cyber-attacks are a daily occurrence for the US Air Force. In an unfortunate parallel to private industry, Air Force networks are attacked, and defended, thousands of times each week. I know this too well as former Secretary of the Air Force. In my current role, I also am well aware that operators of public as well as private critical networks are forced to pour more time, attention and resources than ever before into computer network security because it is so critical to our nation’s safety and economic vitality. In light of these costs, and associated high stakes, a clear return on investment is imperative. Such a return is not certain if we train our sights solely on network security. Cyber intruders have shown us repeatedly that many avenues are open to them for launching attacks and compromising critical data. That’s why the Air Force is investing more heavily in operational security, and the private sector cannot afford to fail following suit. By Deborah Lee James, Former Secretary of the Air Force Read More COTS Picks Chassis Plans Announces M2UDA-20 Rugged Military Grade 2U Rack Mount Storage Server with Revision Control Designed and built in the USA, Chassis Plans’ new M2UDA-20 revision controlled, military-grade storage server system can be used for many rugged, computationally intense military and/or industrial applications, while using limited rack space. It meets and/or exceeds MIL-STD-810K and 901D for a range of environmental specifications – extreme high and low temperatures, high altitude, 5% to 05% non-condensing humidity, vibration, bench handling shocks and EMI compliance. Designed for use worldwide, it is compliant with RoHS, REACH, CE and TAA specifications. Congatec Introduces MIPI-CSI 2 Smart Camera Kit for Rugged Vision Systems Congatec introduces its first MIPI CSI 2 Smart Camera Kit for vision systems at the edge of the IIoT. It is an application-ready kit for the evaluation and deployment of MIPI-CSI 2 based rugged smart camera analytics in harsh industrial, outdoor, and in-vehicle environments. Developers benefit from an instantly deployable industrial-grade smart MIPI-CSI platform. Built with commercial, off-the-shelf available components, it simplifies development and accelerates the time to market of smart camera analytics solutions for the edge of the IIoT. VadaTech Announces MicroTCA Chassis Optimized for FPGAs VadaTech announces the VT882. The VT882 is a 2U MTCA chassis that provides eight extended-size/full-size and/or mid-size AMC slots that can accept any AMC.1, AMC.2, AMC.3 and/or AMC.4 modules. It provides TCLKA, TCLKB, TCLKC and TCLKD as well as FLCLKA to each slot in addition to the JTAG signals. It also contains capability for full redundancy by having a redundant MCH, Power Modules, as well as redundant Cooling Units for high availability. Option for redundant/non-redundant clock is per MTCA specification. The VT882 has High-speed routing on 26 layers (40G capable) and High-speed MTCA connectors (12.5 GHz). Pairs of modules have ports 2-15 and 17-20 routed locally (not via a switch), making the chassis ideal for housing FPGA modules communicating over low-latency protocol such as Aurora. Ports 0 and 1 are routed to GbE switches as normal, supporting control plane resource management.   MISSED A BACK ISSUE? Read it now. WHITE PAPERS Critical Techniques for High-Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems Markets for high-speed A/D converters are significant in size and many are growing rapidly. New markets emerge regularly based on A/D technology advances, lower costs, and the general trend of replacing older mechanical and analog systems with DSP systems. DSP offers significant advantages for handling signal complexity, communications security, improved accuracy and reliability, reduced size, weight and power. Commercial users of high-speed A/Ds include wireless mobile communication systems, airline radar systems, air traffic control towers, ship communications, and wireless networks for home, office and public facilities. Download Spec Changes Top List of Power Designers' Challenges Power designers face many challenges. Vicor research has identified over a dozen challenges, but the biggest one is changes in specifications for the power system during development. This concise paper explores: Today’s top power system design obstacles The causes of specification changes Solution to overcoming spec changes and other challenges Download WWW.COTSJOURNALONLINE.COM