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Military Embedded Systems

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February 24, 2023

LISA DAIGLE

Assistant Managing Editor

Military Embedded Systems

NEW YORK. The global market for embedded systems used by the military is predicted to reach a revenue of $3.26 billion by 2031, growing at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9% during the forecast period 2022-2031, according to a nre report by Research Dive, "Military Embedded Systems Market: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2031."

"One of the market drivers, say the study authors, will be the dawn of sophisticated sensors and as-yet-unknown waveforms, which means that market players will develop quick and flexible electronic warfare (EW) systems that can identify and block these signals.

✓ Also driving the market, according to the study, will be financing hikes in nations' military budgets, as they seek to modernize their military and defense equipment. In addition, revenue will be boosted by countries' widespread adoption of multicore processors, wireless technologies, and revolutionary EW systems.

✓ One factor that may constrain the military embedded systems market is the need to ensure security in embedded systems, which translates into many architectural problems imposed by these systems' specific properties; the study authors say that this aspect of the market will necessitate a deeper comprehension of the overall security issue. "

For additional information, visit the Research Dive website.

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February 23, 2023

DAN TAYLOR

Technology Editor

Military Embedded Systems

Mission-aware routing technology demonstrated for DoD by Lockheed Martin, Juniper Networks — Illustration courtesy Lockheed Martin

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Lockheed Martin and Juniper Networks recently demonstrated mission-aware routing technology for the U.S. Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin announced in a statement.

The routing technology "will streamline and prioritize the flow of critical information from contested, remote environments to commanders stationed around the globe" using a hybrid software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) solution, the statement reads.

The technology does this by optimizing data flow to ensure the most important information is received first in real time, prioritized based on the content of the data as well as information exchange requirements and mission phase priorities, the statement continues.

The company says the purpose of the demonstration was to show the technology could withstand connectivity challenges in military environments, which involved cutting off primary communication channels in a lab environment and allowing the solution to reroute the information through secondary links.

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April 09, 2020

EMMA HELFRICH

Technology Editor

Military Embedded Systems

ASTARTE to enable effective, real-time airspace operations

WASHINGTON. DARPA announced its Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) program, which is being conducted in partnership with the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. The program’s goal is to enable efficient and effective airspace operations and de-confliction in a highly congested future battlespace.

ASTARTE will focus on the most challenging airspace problem – the airspace above an Army Division operating under an enemy’s A2/AD bubble. This volume of airspace can contain Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Special Operations Forces, coalition and adversary manned/unmanned aircraft, and munitions.

ASTARTE will use its sensor network to detect and map adversary locations, increasing situational awareness within A2/AD environments. ASTARTE does not seek to develop a common framework of software and hardware that Joint and Coalition partners would have to acquire.

The new ASTARTE engine will be designed for compatibility with existing and future command and control systems (C2) used by the military Services, and will automatically push the most current and relevant airspace information to all Joint units on their native C2 systems.

Feb 24, 2023

DARPA, Services Demo Battlefield Airspace Deconfliction Software

Tools enable planes, helos, missiles, uncrewed aircraft to operate simultaneously in contested airspace

DARPA’s Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) program recently demonstrated new automated flightpath-planning software that successfully deconflicted friendly missiles, artillery fire, and manned and unmanned aircraft while avoiding enemy fires in a simulated battle in contested airspace.

In a demonstration held at the U.S. Army’s Mission Command Battle Lab, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in late 2022, the ASTARTE software seamlessly integrated with the Army’s Integrated Mission Planning and Airspace Control Tools (IMPACT) software suite. IMPACT is managed by the Aviation Mission Systems and Architecture Project Office in the Program Executive Office for Aviation.

The ASTARTE Program, which began in 2021, is a joint collaboration between DARPA, the Army, and the U.S. Air Force to enable efficient and effective airspace operations and de-confliction in a highly congested anti-access/area denial, known as A2/AD, environment. The program’s goal is to provide an accurate, real-time common operational picture of the airspace over an Army division, enabling long-range fire missions, as well as manned and unmanned aircraft operations, to occur safely in the same airspace.

“The demonstration showed that complex route alternatives could be created in seconds, leveraging

available permissive airspace to avoid airspace where conflicts would potentially occur,” said Paul Zablocky, ASTARTE program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office. “There are many reasons this integration helps the warfighter. Coordinating and consolidating services at the user level greatly reduces procedural burden, which speeds the enterprise. ASTARTE also increases accuracy by automating tasks and reducing inherent human error. Most importantly, the ASTARTE and IMPACT integration forms a foundation of artificial intelligence-enabled services that will interact with other service component AI tools such as the Air Force’s Kessel Run All Domain Operations Suite (KRADOS) for planning and the All Domain Common Platform (ADCP) for operations.”

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ASTARTE performer Raytheon Technologies developed an automated flightpath-planning capability for fixed and rotary wing aircraft, which includes the capability to deconflict airspace use by routing through or around defined airspace coordinating measures, commonly called ACMs, in both space and time. General Dynamics Mission Systems (GMDS) developed the Army’s IMPACT suite, which adds a Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) class of data-enabled, over-the-horizon tools to existing airspace management systems to form a multidomain capability supporting the Army’s 2030 Multi-Domain Operations vision.

During the demonstration, GDMS and Raytheon identified the interfaces allowing the ASTARTE flightpath planner to receive flight path requests with associated constraints from IMPACT (e.g., timing, altitude range, start and end points), and returned complete deconflicted flight paths back to IMPACT on demand.

The ASTARTE-IMPACT demonstration also illustrated a novel approach for transitioning cutting-edge microservices and software components developed by the science and technology community very quickly into military service programs of records.

ASTARTE is currently wrapping up Phase 2 integration efforts and is scheduled to begin Phase 3 live testing this summer.

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