When it comes to aerospace and defense embedded computing systems, open standards continue to hold a firm place in development and deployment. “You’ve got cost pressures, you have environmental pressures, and you have all these different sorts of pressures.”
“You’re not putting in the greatest computer ever, but you’re putting something that’s just good enough,” Jedynak says. The Curtiss-Wright CTO says industry aims to bring small-form-factor computing to the edge by packing more power into ever-shrinking rugged enclosures and by bringing smarts to things like mortar shells. “We’re talking about man-machine teaming and artificial intelligence and technology.” “How do you make things smarter? How do you take everything that you possibly have and suddenly make it the smart version?” Jedynak asks. Defense Solutions Division in Ashburn, Va., says industry is getting more “smarts” into more devices than ever before. That power is enabled by using the Internet of Things (IOT), machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI).ĭavid Jedynak, chief technology officer at the Curtiss-Wright Corp. Now, warfighters have more power at their fingertips than ever before, and that trend is continuing. In addition to COTS, the embedded computing industry has used technology to pump even more power into systems by focusing on the size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements of the components used.