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14 Dec 23. DOD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office Hosts Last Global Information Dominance Experiment of the Year. The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) launched the eighth iteration of the Global Information Dominance Experiment, known as GIDE 8. This iteration began Dec. 4 and will conclude Dec. 15. Building on the success of the previous experiments, GIDE 8 aims to provide a Minimum Viable Capability (MVC) of Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) to the Joint Force by the end of the year.
GIDE 8 gathers a diverse team from all service branches and combatant commands, the Joint Staff and international partners. The primary goal of GIDE 8 is to deliver a Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capability aligned to two mission threads: global integration and joint fires. By the end of the year, the experiment aims to successfully iterate on CJADC2 concepts, wargame global crisis scenarios, develop new Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and influence policy to move the Department’s CJADC2 efforts forward.
Col. Matthew Strohmeyer, Experiment Director for GIDE, highlighted the significance of the experiment, saying, “GIDE 8 is culminating a year of rapid experimentation resulting in the fielding of initial CJADC2 capabilities focusing on global integration for decision advantage.”
GIDE has already achieved remarkable successes, completing three iterations this calendar year, an unprecedented feat that would typically unfold over several years. The rapid iteration has enabled the shadowing of real-world events in a sandbox environment, resulting in real and usable data pipelines and architecture for crisis events. Through tools training and GIDE participation, real-time collaborative digital data sharing international partners and elements of U.S. DoD have had a groundbreaking outcome.
The GIDE series will continue to expand into 2024, using lessons learned from previous iterations.
For more information on CDAO, please visit www.AI.mil. (Source: U.S. DoD)
14 Dec 23. Amphenol Military High Speed’s (AMHS) CF-020400-065 Rugged 6U VPX Ethernet Switch was successfully qualified for its shipboard application by passing the Military Specification 901D Shock Test. Taken from the 1963 test design, the purpose of the Military Specification shock test 901D is “to verify the ability of shipboard installations to withstand shock loadings due to the effects of nuclear or conventional weapons.”
“People don’t realize how incredible this is!” Says AMHS’s GM, Jared Sibrava. “We just took an extremely complex piece of Ethernet switching technology: circuit boards, connectors, dense ball grid arrays, precise soldering, capable of channeling and switching radar data in an aircraft, or the internal ops of a torpedo… and we punched it in the mouth nine times. Then we plugged it in and told it to be ready in ten seconds. It said, ‘I’ll do it in eight’.”
The passing of this test opens up the world of shipboard, submarine, and other naval applications for AMHS’s family of switches, which are already heavily represented in military avionics. The CF-020400-065 is a 6U VPX switch is designed, manufactured, and assembled in Sidney, NY, USA down to its VITA 46 connectors. It boasts a fast boot time of under ten seconds and is low power at under 30W.
12 Dec 23. L3Harris, Voyis and Wavefront collaborate to deliver advanced technology to enhance NATO Navy’s autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) capabilities. L3Harris’ area of expertise is the development of AUVs for a variety of maritime applications. AUVs are designed to operate in harsh environments, including deep water and can be used for a range of missions, including search and rescue, surveillance, mine countermeasures and oceanography. L3Harris is at the forefront of AUV development and continuously advances its technology to meet critical evolving defence mission needs. To further improve L3Harris’ Iver4 900 AUV capabilities, the global defence company integrated a Voyis Recon LS and the Wavefront Solstice 3000 multiple-aperture sonar (MAS) Combined AUV payload onto the Iver4 900 platform to support defence missions.
The Voyis team, in collaboration with Wavefront Systems, is proud to announce a successful factory acceptance test of the Recon LS/3000MAS AUV payload with L3Harris, to be delivered to a NATO Navy, further improving the IVER4 900 capabilities. It consists of a single, integrated forward payload section housing Voyis’ compact dynamic laser scanner, which captures high-resolution 3D point-cloud data, the Voyis’ 4K imaging system with appropriate lighting which captures crisp, evenly illuminated still images with its edge-computed image enhancement feature, and finally, the Wavefront Systems’ Solstice multi-aperture side-scan sonar that delivers 200m-wide swath coverage and bathymetry at high resolution.
The Voyis Recon LS/WaveFront Solstice Combined AUV payload offers a solution for autonomous underwater vehicles to covertly detect, classify, and identify mine-like objects (MLOs), reducing risk to divers. The system uses the multi-aperture side-scan sonar, 4K digital still-camera and high-resolution laser scanner to carry out this task.
The L3Harris’ Iver4 900 vehicle provides the payload with both stability and endurance to make the most of the payload.
MCM operations involve four stages: detection, classification, identification, and disposal/neutralization. Currently, side-scan sonar is used for mine detection and sometimes for classification. However, visual identification requires a clearance diver or remotely operated vehicles to enter the minefield, which is time-consuming and risky, especially in areas with complex seabed. This requires multiple resources to be deployed into a potentially hazardous environment to complete a successful operation, which is inefficient when relying on lower-quality sensor data and dangerous if humans are mobilizing the assets.
The Recon LS/WaveFront Solstice MAS Combined AUV payload is designed to rethink how mine countermeasure (MCM) operations are conducted today and enable single assets to complete complex missions without deploying additional resources within the minefield. By enabling search and classify mapping using Wavefront’s leading multi-aperture sonar Solstice, the vessel can re-acquire and identify MLOs using Voyis’ laser and camera, improving the probability of detection, reducing false alarms, and sustaining a high op tempo.
About Voyis
Voyis, founded in 2007, is the first company to widely provide underwater laser scanners for underwater surveys and inspection. Voyis’ focus is to provide versatile optical solutions that expand customers’ underwater capabilities and help enhance understanding of remote or challenging environments by producing the best data possible.
About Wavefront Systems
Wavefront was founded in 2004 with a mission to apply engineering excellence to the problems of underwater detection, imaging, and navigation. Wavefront works with its customers to make the underwater world visible – Wavefront is proud to have designed and developed some of the world’s most capable commercially available sonar systems including Sentinel IDS – Intruder Detection Sonar, Vigilant FLS – Forward Looking Sonar, Solstice MAS – Multi-Aperture Sonar and Sentry IMS – Integrity Monitoring Sonar. Wavefront’s industry-leading products are in use globally in civilian, public, defence, offshore and commercial markets.
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13 Dec 23. MIT Drones Navigate Unseen Environments with Liquid Neural Networks. Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments. The liquid neural networks, which can continuously adapt to new data inputs, showed prowess in making reliable decisions in unknown domains like forests, urban landscapes, and environments with added noise, rotation, and occlusion.
These adaptable models, which outperformed many state-of-the-art counterparts in navigation tasks, could enable potential real-world drone applications like search and rescue, delivery, and wildlife monitoring.
The researchers’ recent study, published earlier this year in Science Robotics, details how this new breed of agents can adapt to significant distribution shifts, a long-standing challenge in the field. The team’s new class of machine-learning algorithms, however, captures the causal structure of tasks from high-dimensional, unstructured data, such as pixel inputs from a drone-mounted camera. These networks can then extract crucial aspects of a task (i.e., understand the task at hand) and ignore irrelevant features, allowing acquired navigation skills to transfer targets seamlessly to new environments.
“We are thrilled by the immense potential of our learning-based control approach for robots, as it lays the groundwork for solving problems that arise when training in one environment and deploying in a completely distinct environment without additional training,” says Daniela Rus, CSAIL director and the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. “Our experiments demonstrate that we can effectively teach a drone to locate an object in a forest during summer, and then deploy the model in winter, with vastly different surroundings, or even in urban settings, with varied tasks such as seeking and following. This adaptability is made possible by the causal underpinnings of our solutions. These flexible algorithms could one day aid in decision-making based on data streams that change over time, such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving applications.”
A daunting challenge was at the forefront: Do machine-learning systems understand the task they are given from data when flying drones to an unlabeled object? And, would they be able to transfer their learned skill and task to new environments with drastic changes in scenery, such as flying from a forest to an urban landscape? What’s more, unlike the remarkable abilities of our biological brains, deep learning systems struggle with capturing causality, frequently over-fitting their training data and failing to adapt to new environments or changing conditions. This is especially troubling for resource-limited embedded systems, like aerial drones, that need to traverse varied environments and respond to obstacles instantaneously.
The liquid networks, in contrast, offer promising preliminary indications of their capacity to address this crucial weakness in deep learning systems. The team’s system was first trained on data collected by a human pilot, to see how they transferred learned navigation skills to new environments under drastic changes in scenery and conditions. Unlike traditional neural networks that only learn during the training phase, the liquid neural net’s parameters can change over time, making them not only interpretable, but more resilient to unexpected or noisy data.
In a series of quadrotor closed-loop control experiments, the drones underwent range tests, stress tests, target rotation and occlusion, hiking with adversaries, triangular loops between objects, and dynamic target tracking. They tracked moving targets, and executed multi-step loops between objects in never-before-seen environments, surpassing performance of other cutting-edge counterparts.
The team believes that the ability to learn from limited expert data and understand a given task while generalizing to new environments could make autonomous drone deployment more efficient, cost-effective, and reliable. Liquid neural networks, they noted, could enable autonomous air mobility drones to be used for environmental monitoring, package delivery, autonomous vehicles, and robotic assistants.
“The experimental setup presented in our work tests the reasoning capabilities of various deep learning systems in controlled and straightforward scenarios,” says MIT CSAIL Research Affiliate Ramin Hasani. “There is still so much room left for future research and development on more complex reasoning challenges for AI systems in autonomous navigation applications, which has to be tested before we can safely deploy them in our society.”
“Robust learning and performance in out-of-distribution tasks and scenarios are some of the key problems that machine learning and autonomous robotic systems have to conquer to make further inroads in society-critical applications,” says Alessio Lomuscio, professor of AI safety in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. “In this context, the performance of liquid neural networks, a novel brain-inspired paradigm developed by the authors at MIT, reported in this study is remarkable. If these results are confirmed in other experiments, the paradigm here developed will contribute to making AI and robotic systems more reliable, robust, and efficient.”
Clearly, the sky is no longer the limit, but rather a vast playground for the boundless possibilities of these airborne marvels.
Hasani and PhD student Makram Chahine; Patrick Kao ’22, MEng ’22; and PhD student Aaron Ray SM ’21 wrote the paper with Ryan Shubert ’20, MEng ’22; MIT postdocs Mathias Lechner and Alexander Amini; and Rus.
This research was supported, in part, by Schmidt Futures, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the U.S. Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, and the Boeing Co.
(Source: UAS VISION/:MIT Press Release)
12 Dec 23. US expects to make multi-billion chips awards within the next year. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she expects to make around a dozen semiconductor chips funding awards within the next year, including multi-billion dollar announcements that could drastically reshape U.S. chip production.
She announced the first award on Monday – $35m to a BAE Systems (BAES.L) facility in Hampshire to produce chips for fighter planes from the “Chips for America” semiconductor manufacturing and research subsidy program approved by Congress in August 2022.
“Next year we’ll get into some of the bigger ones with leading-edge fabs,” Raimondo told reporters. “A year from now I think we will have made 10 or 12 similar announcements, some of them multi-bn dollar announcements.”
In an interview with Reuters, Raimondo said that the number of awards could go higher than 12.
She said she wants the percentage of semiconductors produced in the United States to rise from about 12% to closer to 20% – though that is still down from 40% in 1990 – and to have at least two “leading-edge” U.S. manufacturing clusters. In addition, she wants the U.S. to have cutting-edge memory and packaging production and to “meet the military’s needs for current and mature” chips.
Raimondo noted that the U.S. currently does not have any cutting-edge manufacturing production and wants to get that to about 10%.
Companies like Intel (INTC.O), Micron (MU.O), GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) are among those seeking significant funding from the chip program.
Raimondo said the program has received more than 550 statements of interest and nearly 150 pre-applications, full applications, and concept plans.
She said that given the extensive interest, there will be many disappointed companies.
“We have national security goals and we need to make our investments to hit those goals and we’re going to do that,” she added.
Congress has allocated $39 bn for manufacturing incentives to encourage companies to build and expand facilities and awards can be a mix of grants, government loans or loan guarantees.
The department has said direct funding awards are expected to range between 5%-15% of project capital expenditures and total award amounts will generally not exceed 35% of project capital expenditures.
(Source: Reuters)
11 Dec 23. Elma’s Latest CompacFrame Employs 5-slot Air Flow Through Backplane.
New system accelerates application development and testing
Technology Highlights
● VITA 48.8 air flow through (AFT) cooling
● SOSA aligned AFT backplane with 5 slots on 1.5” pitch
● Accommodates 3U plug-in cards (PICs) designed to VITA 48.8
● Tilted card cage enables easy card access
The latest iteration of Elma Electronic’s CompacFrame platforms accommodates a 5-slot VITA 48.8 air flow-through (AFT) backplane. The Type 39A unit is aligned to SOSA and accommodates 3U plug-in cards (PICs) housed in 1.5” wide modules, according to VITA 48.8.
Available in multiple configurations, the CompacFrame development platforms assist in testing and application development for a range of critical embedded environments. With the addition of the new 5-slot AFT backplane as standard, this unit facilitates air flow-through card and system design implementations and testing for sensor payloads, electronic warfare (EW) and C5ISR as well as for target tracking and display, navigation systems and threat detection.
Ram Rajan, vice president of engineering for Elma Electronic, noted, “Innovative embedded designs now require more inventive ways to cool high-density, performance-based systems that continue to pack more processing and functionality into tighter packaging profiles. Our entire CompacFrame line is designed to assist in testing and development of applications to ensure they are real-world ready. We saw the growing use of air flow-through cooling, so we developed this test platform to accommodate our customers’ evolving development scenarios.”
In place of the 5-slot AFT backplane at a 1.5” pitch, the new CompacFrame can accept multiple 1-slot VPX power and ground backplanes in a 1”, 1.2” or 1.5” pitch. The unit includes a VITA 46.11 chassis manager with Ethernet and serial ports accessible at the rear as well as voltage monitoring LEDS, test points, and zeroize, NVMRO, reset and power switches on the front panel.
The card cage of the VITA 48.8 AFT cooling platform provides a five-degree upward tilt for easier access to the 3U cards in the system. A 1400 W ATX power supply unit (PSU) comes standard and a convenient carrying handle provides for easy transport.
By using lightweight jack screws for insertion and extraction into a chassis, VITA 48.8 eliminates card retainers and ejector/injector handles, which, in turn, reduces weight and cost for high-density, high-power dissipation of 3U and 6U module-based systems. The use of a new, lightweight polymer or composite-based chassis is an industry innovation driver by eliminating module-to-chassis conduction cooling.
10 Dec 23. AWE: British Army Offers Glimpse into Future of Warfare. A Glimpse into the Future of Warfare. The world’s first hybrid electric jet aircraft, drones that fit in the palm of your hand and driverless vehicles were just some of latest equipment with new technology put to the test on the Army Warfare Experiment (AWE) 2023.
AWE has been the Army’s flagship innovation experimentation programme for the past six years, forging relationships with industry to identify technology that could be used in future warfare.
The focus of this year’s AWE was to identify current and emerging technologies that could provide solutions to the challenges faced by soldiers in urban warfare.
Over 40 systems from 35 suppliers; two thirds of which are from British industry, were tested and assessed by the Army’s Experimentation Battalion, 2nd Battalion The Royal Yorkshire Regiment, during four weeks of combat trials on Salisbury Plain.
They were joined on the experiment by US, Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Italian troops, as well as observers from Canada, Australia, KSA and Turkey.
“We are looking towards the future battlespace and looking at lessons learned from countries like Ukraine. It’s important to learn the lessons from those conflicts and stay up-to-date and get ahead of the curve. This kit will help us do that or, at the very least, enable us to stay on par with a future enemy,” said Private Daniel Gonzalez.
Among the products being tested was the Hydra 400 – the world’s first hybrid heavy lift drone, which is powered by eight electric motors and four jet engines with a maximum lift of 400kg. The jets take the weight of the cargo, and the rotors look after the navigation and flight symmetry.
The next-generation drone can be assembled and ready for flight in six minutes and can carry the Brimstone missile that can engage a wide range of targets including fast moving vehicles and vessels at sea.
The results from the experiment will generate evidence to inform future investment decisions and drive the thinking on design and training decisions, ensuring the Army has the best solutions to meet the demands of modern warfare.
Private Daniel Gonzalez said: “We’ve been trialling everything from software to unmanned vehicles, and from ladders to an electric wheelbarrow that can be used to evacuate casualties or to carry kit.”
“You can see exactly where a lot of the kit slots into the battlespace. Some of the kit less so as it is still in development, and some is not fit for purpose.”
“We are looking towards the future battlespace and looking at lessons learned from countries like Ukraine. It’s important to learn the lessons from those conflicts and stay up-to-date and get ahead of the curve. This kit will help us do that or, at the very least, enable us to stay on par with a future enemy.”
“Our job role is incredibly exciting because we get to see the latest kit available first.”
The next generation of lightweight Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) were tested, including the Black Hornet 4. Small enough to fly into buildings and with a flying time of more than 30-minutes, it can provide situational awareness without putting lives at risk.
Private Gonzalez said: “We can send the Black Hornet 4 and similar drones through an open window to look inside a building, find out its layout and see who’s in there. That info can then be used to aid troops’ entry and approach once inside. With this information the survivability of soldiers is increased.”
“On the AWE we feedback directly to the defence industry whether the product is easy to set up and use and how feasible it is to use in a real-life situation. On past exercises we have given feedback and seen the results, whether it’s a software update or even entirely new hardware and when we see that, it makes it really worth it.”
The soldiers were also testing new software that could be added to existing kit to improve performance. This included Instant Connect Enterprise (ICE) software that, when added to existing headphones and software, automatically translated the sender’s language into the language of the receiver. This enabled easier and quicker communication between British and international troops.
Private Matthew Perkins said: “The translation works with hardly any delay and network interference. The idea is there, and it does work. The main issue is the delay and in a battle a lot of things can happen. Given a few tweaks to make it smoother, I would use it.”
Colonel Toby Till, Commander of the UK’s Experimentation Trials Group said: “This is the third iteration in the AWE urban focused series, held in close collaboration with industry, and is designed to make the Army more lethal.
“The driving force is the Land Operating Concept. It can be likened to the North Star for the Army and demonstrates how we are going to fight differently in the future and the capabilities we will need to do so.”
“Our collaboration with industry on this event is key – we couldn’t do without them. We are seeing different industries collaborating who wouldn’t normally do so, and military advice being provided to both of them.”
The evidence from the AWE will inform the Army and Defence as to the capabilities which should receive investment in order that the Army may become more lethally effective and remain competitive on the global stage. (Source: https://www.defense-aerospace.com/ British Army;)
11 Dec 23. Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a technology company that delivers mission-critical processing power to the edge, today introduced the first commercially available flight testing simulator for air-to-ground synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. The ARES-SAR product builds on more than 25 years of test and train technology from the Mercury Processing Platform to enable government and commercial organizations to save time and costs by reducing the need for actual flight testing through the simulation of realistic SAR scenarios on the ground.
SAR systems have become an integral tool for crewed and uncrewed airborne and space-based systems. These systems allow pilots of fifth-generation fighter jets to navigate safely, target munitions, and perform battle damage assessments in all-weather conditions, day or night. They allow satellites to conduct environmental monitoring, mapping, and surveillance missions. A significant portion of the time and cost of developing these systems is consumed by real-world testing, which today can cost ms of dollars and require many flight tests over months or years.
ARES-SAR builds on Mercury’s heritage of digital RF memory (DRFM)-based electronic warfare training, test, and evaluation solutions. In 2020, the company introduced ARES3100, an advanced radar environment simulator for testing and training air-to-air radar capabilities in a laboratory environment or an anechoic chamber.
ARES-SAR can be employed by itself or alongside ARES3100, as both use Mercury’s software interface that makes it easy to quickly configure multiple test scenarios that include various geographies, imaging modes, targets, environmental effects, and countermeasures. Development of ARES-SAR was funded by the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, and the product is in use by several Air Force and Navy customers.
“To ensure technological superiority on the battlefield, organizations responsible for fielding air and space systems must develop and deploy advanced capabilities in a more timely and cost-effective way,” said Roya Montakhab, Mercury’s GM of Platform Systems. “ARES-SAR allows radar systems to undergo robust qualification programs without ever leaving the ground.”
11 Dec 23. Quantx Labs secures $750,000 funding for Quantum-Secured PNT R&D. QuantX Labs has secured $750,000 funding for an innovative research project aimed at revolutionizing a secured Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capability for defence applications. The project, titled “Quantum-Secured Time Transfer for Resilient PNT,” will receive support from Department of Defence, paving the way for cutting-edge advancements in PNT security.
Access to trusted PNT information is of paramount importance for defence operations. Current PNT signals, such as those provided by the Global Positioning System (GPS), are vulnerable to covert spoofing, where malicious actors can transmit false information to disrupt military activities without detection. The “Quantum-Secured Time Transfer for Resilient PNT” project seeks to address this critical issue by harnessing quantum technology to guarantee the authenticity of received PNT data, making spoofing impossible.
This ground-breaking research project builds upon the success of a previous grant from the Defence Innovation Partnership which brought together experts from the University of Adelaide, QuantX Labs, and the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG). The new project encompasses several crucial objectives including demonstration of quantum-secured time transfer using entangled photons, development of a classical two-way time transfer across a free-space link, and investigating the impact of loss and turbulence on both time transfer methods.
Additionally, a critical objective of this research will be to synchronize two Cryoclocks. These oscillators, QuantX’s flagship product, are renowned as the world’s most precise clocks and are being used as the driving sources for critical radar facilities. The need for synchronisation between multiple radar sites is a key challenge for new radar architectures.
The project will culminate in a demonstration of quantum-secured time transfer over a free space optical link. This will be used to synchronize small Chip Scale Atomic Clocks that are suited for drone and satellite deployment. This approach will allow us to transfer the performance of a very high-quality ground clock onto these portable platforms. This achievement will mark a significant advancement in defence technology, providing unparalleled security and precision for PNT data.
A key partner in this work is Inovor Technologies who will assist in the eventual deployment of this technology onto a satellite. Inovor’s experience in space deployments, particularly in interfacing complex payloads into the space craft will be key to our demonstrator mission.
Dr. Martin O’Connor, General Manager at QuantX Labs, emphasized the project’s importance, stating, “Quantum-secured time transfer offers a new level of security and accuracy for defence operations. We are excited to embark on this research journey, which has the potential to safeguard our troops and assets in contested environments.”
This project aligns perfectly with QuantX Lab’s Kairos Mission a space-based clock that aims at an alternate and sovereign PNT solution for the nation. The company is already well underway to developing a next-generation atomic clock based on optical technology for applications in space. This ground-breaking high-performance clock delivers to a multitude of applications that are of high value to numerous space end-users. This optical atomic clock and quantum secured optical network, represents first steps towards a sovereign and secure alternate architecture for a GPS-like timing and position system. (Source: https://www.ex2.com.au/news/)
12 Dec 23. Field communication and power supply units in military applications: ODU-MAC® White Line ensures reliability and security in data transmission.
Field communications and power distribution units (PDUs) play a critical role in controlling and distributing power and data in military applications. Data transmission between different field devices enables real-time acquisition, monitoring and control of data. Key requirements include reliability and resilience, real-time communication and interoperability, and robustness and security.
Requirements for field communication and PDUs in military applications
In the context of field communications, security and confidentiality are top priorities in addition to the above requirements. The data must meet the required security standards. Encryption of the data and protection against unauthorized access is required. As military units are on the move, mobility, ease of transport and rapid re-deployment of field communications and power distribution units are crucial.
Security and confidentiality in field communication
The ODU-MAC® White-Line is a high-quality, modular connector system. It is robust, vibration-resistant and meets the requirements of the military environment. Due to the easy handling, a secure connection can be established even in the dark or under stress. With the hybrid connectors of the ODU-MAC® product family, individual combinations of signals, power, high current, high voltage, RF signals (coax), media such as air or liquids, data rates and optical fibres are possible in just one interface.
The versatility of the ODU-MAC® White-Line
The connector modules can be selected as required and individually combined in line with defined modular principles. ODU-MAC® high-current modules are suitable for use in power distribution units, for example. Ergonomic handling is ensured by the simple locking options such as snap-in, spindle or longitudinal and crossbar locking. In particular, the ODU-MAC® spindle locking is characterised by its intuitive handling and high reliability. The portfolio is rounded off by a variety of plastic and metal enclosures.
Data-intensive applications and high-speed transmission with ODU-MAC®
Depending on mission requirements, data-intensive applications such as access to geoinformation, satellite images or sensor data may be required. High-resolution live video transmissions or emergency communications are also possible. High bandwidth and fast data transmission rates are crucial here. The ODU-MAC® White-Line offers more than 30 high-speed inserts for the transmission of common data protocols. The contacts used in the ODU-MAC® White-Line are self-cleaning, ensuring consistently low contact resistances.
The requirements and challenges faced in field communications and power supply units are highly dependent on the specific applications in which they are used. In any case, however, reliability and fail-safety are of utmost importance, as failures can have serious consequences.
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