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AcQ International B.V.
No presentation.
Open.Tech by Amphenol
Curtiss-Wright
Get Onboard: How an Open-Standards Industrial Base Accelerates Innovation to the Field
David Jedynak
The DoD’s newest acquisition directives make one thing clear: the days of slow integration, bespoke hardware, and endless prototypes that never reach the field are over. If innovators want their technology to matter - and if the government wants capability at the speed of relevance - then the entire ecosystem must start with open, modular, standards-based foundations.
This presentation is a call to action for the entire defense technology community - government program offices, emerging “New Defense” vendors, legacy primes, investors, and standards bodies. The defense industrial base already possesses an enormous ecosystem of interoperable, MOSA-aligned compute, networking, storage, and mission systems. Yet far too many programs, startups, labs, and investments ignore it entirely - wasting precious time and money reinventing what already exists.
The message is simple: If you build on open standards, you can field innovation fast. If you don’t, you’ll likely get stuck in the valley of death.
Elma Electronic Inc.
GDCA
Interface Concept
Mercury Systems
Unlocking Potential: The Growing Value Proposition of the In-Development VITA 100.20 (System Management for VITA 100) Standard
Dan Toohey
It has been almost one year since the chartering and inaugural kickoff working group meeting for VITA 100.20, System Management for VITA 100. Over this time, substantial progress has been made toward the creation of the standard, some of which has driven changes to the VITA 100 base standard content. This presentation will provide an update on the status of the creation of the VITA 100.20 standard, including the latest plan of record to arrive at a first revision release. An overview of VITA 100.20’s logical and physical architectures will be introduced and traced to a few implementation examples of VITA 100.20 at a Plug-in Module (PIM) and chassis level. Finally, some use cases addressed by the standard, that drive up the value proposition for VITA 100.20, will be presented.
New Wave Design
VITA 93 QMC: The Rugged Compute SOM for More Than Just I/O
Jake Braegelmann
Ryan Jansen
The VITA 93 QMC standard has applicability far beyond I/O centric use cases. The proliferation of affordable mass efforts in the defense market including drones, air launched effects, missiles, ground vehicles, packable electronic warfare solutions, etc. demand an affordable, rugged, and modular small form-factor compute approach. To support this demand, the embedded computing market has been searching for a standards-based System on Module (SoM) that meets ruggedization levels similar to VPX. VITA 93 has the potential to answer this market demand in a meaningful way. This presentation will review the opportunities and challenges for the VITA 93 standard to meet the moment.
Samtec, Inc.
Enabling Next-Gen Rugged System Topologies with the New VITA 90™ Family of Standards
David Givens
The VITA OpenVPX™ family of standards have defined rugged, high-reliability computing system topologies for decades. Leveraging the proven engineering strategies of OpenVPX, VITA 90 VNX+™ continues the modular open-system design approach in a small form factor (SFF) targeting smaller, denser, and faster applications. Additionally, VITA 90 VNX+ includes several new features such as optimized pin assignments, system management capabilities, power modules and coaxial and optical I/O connectors allowing comprehensive system design approaches in legacy and emerging applications. In this presentation, David Givens from Samtec will provide a holistic overview of the VITA 90 family of standards while highlighting real-world case studies illustrating the efficacy of VITA 90 VNX+ in system design.
TE Connectivity
Anders Thelin