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12 Jul 24. Waterproof Embedded Computers for In-Vehicle Edge AI Applications. Neousys’ new IP66-rated edge computing systems are based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module.
Neousys Technology has expanded its NVIDIA Jetson-based line of computing systems with the launch of the NRU-230V-AWP and NRU-240S-AWP series.
Featuring IP66-rated waterproof capabilities at an affordable cost, these innovative systems are designed to accelerate powerful AI performance at roadside or in-vehicle deployments. Equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module with eight GMSL2 ports (NRU-230V-AWP only), four PoE+ GbE ports, and one 10GbE port, they are ideal for off-road vehicle ADAS and autonomous mobile robotics.
To ensure reliable edge deployments, the NRU-230V-AWP and NRU-240S-AWP are waterproof and dustproof. Designed with affordability in mind, these systems operate within a temperature range of -25°C to 70°C, making them suitable for demanding environments.
The NRU-230V-AWP and NRU-240S-AWP support a wide range of interfaces for versatile camera, sensor, and data transmission devices, including GMSL2, PoE+ GbE and 10GbE via M12 connectors. Powered by the Jetson AGX Orin, they deliver 275 TOPS AI inference performance and video transcoding for AI-powered vision applications. Additionally, they support a unique waterproof Type-C display that provides 4K DisplayPort output or USB3.2, benefitting ADAS applications by providing real-time surround-view awareness of the vehicles.
Designed for in-vehicle deployments, the NRU-230V-AWP and NRU-240S-AWP support 8V to 48V wide-range DC input with built-in ignition power control, isolated CAN 2.0, COM ports, and WiFi, 4G LTE/ 5G NR support. Last but not least, The NRU-230V-AWP has a system monitoring port with CAN bus and digital output through on-board automotive MCU, providing real-time reports on power, voltage, thermal, and Jetson status to ensure system reliability in a functional safety solution design.
Kaichu Wu, Product Manager at Neousys Technology, commented: “The power-efficient Jetson series enables the possibility of fanless AI computers at the edge. By making waterproof at an affordable cost, NRU-230V-AWP and NRU-240S-AWP series can bring innovative Edge AI applications down to earth, especially for roadside and off-road vehicles.” (Source: https://www.defenseadvancement.com/)
11 Jul 24. Exail’s INS to shield Royal Navy Type 31’s from navigational threats.
Exail’s Marins INS offers navigation, functioning independently of the Global Navigation Satellite System.
The Royal Navy’s Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates are poised to boost navigational capability due to the integration of Exail’s Marins inertial navigation systems (INS).
This collaboration between Exail, a naval navigation player, and Anschutz, a German navigation systems provider, marks a step in enhancing the UK’s maritime defence.
Exail’s Marins INS offers navigation, functioning independently of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). This feature is important in an era where digital threats, such as GNSS spoofing and jamming, pose risks to navigational integrity. The Marins INS ensures that Type 31 frigates maintain locational awareness.
In September 2023, Babcock reached a milestone with the keel-laying of HMS Active, the second Type 31 frigate, amidst a financial dispute with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). Babcock and the MoD were embroiled in a Dispute Resolution Process over cost increases attributed to global inflation and supply chain disruptions, potentially amounting to £50m to £100m per ship.
Jens Higgen, Regional Sales Director at Exail, commented on the significance of the contract, stating, “We take great pride in contributing to the Royal Navy’s mission success through the supply of our Marins INS for the T31 frigates. This contract underlines the quality and reliability of Exail navigation systems, which are maintenance-free and fully meet the stringent military requirements of the most modern combat ships.”
GlobalData’s “The Global Naval Vessels and Surface Combatants Market 2023-2033” highlights that the Royal Navy’s major procurement programmes over the forecast period include the acquisition of Type 26, Type 31, and Type 32 frigates, among others.
The Type 31 frigates are set to replace the ageing Type 23 frigates, thereby expanding the Royal Navy’s operational capabilities across general-purpose roles. By incorporating Exail’s Marins INS, these new frigates will navigate and ensure sustained operational readiness in the face of electronic warfare tactics.
The INS technology is crucial for missions involving complex navigation routes and manoeuvres in contested environments.
Exail’s selection by Anschutz for this role is a testament to Exail’s navigation solutions, which are already in service across the Royal Navy’s fleet. These include the Astute-class nuclear attack submarines, Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, and Vanguard-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.
Anschütz has achieved milestones in equipping the UK Royal Navy’s Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates with technology. Anschütz completed the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for its Warship Integrated Navigation and Bridge System (WINBS) to enhance navigation and tactical capabilities on these vessels.
The Type 31 frigates, equipped with navigation systems, are expected to play a role in deterring aggression and safeguarding UK interests.
Integrating Exail’s Marins INS into the Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates enhances the Royal Navy’s resilience against modern electronic threats. (Source: naval-technology.com)
12 Jul 24. NATO DIANA launches 2024 challenges for world-class innovators. NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has launched five new challenges for 2024
Building on the success of its inaugural year, NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has launched its 2024 challenges to continue to attract the best and brightest innovators across the Alliance in support of its mission to build a peaceful and more resilient future.
- Applications for the 2024 challenges are open until 9 August
- Five challenge areas: Energy & Power, Data & Information Security, Sensing & Surveillance, Human Heath & Performance and Critical Infrastructure & Logistics
- Early-stage start-ups or small and medium-sized enterprises with limited experience in defence and security will benefit the most
To sharpen NATO’s technological edge, DIANA is an organisation with a mission to locate and accelerate dual-use innovation across the Alliance and provides innovators with the resources, networks and guidance to develop deep technologies to solve critical defence and security challenges.
For its second year, DIANA will be asking innovators to submit proposals in five challenge areas.
- Energy & Power: Focusing on enhancing energy and power resilience in the context of generation, storage, distribution, recovery, harvesting and propulsion across various domains.
- Data & Information Security: Technology solutions that facilitate data production, utilisation, distribution, and protection in multi-domain environments, including space, characterised by a variety of disparate devices, communication systems, operational settings, and operational concepts.
- Sensing & Surveillance: Building on the success of the sensing and surveillance challenge in 2023, this challenge will expand to all domains (land, sea, air, space and cyber).
- Human Health & Performance: Inviting solutions which will improve the understanding and enhancement of human health and wellbeing, both physical and psychological, in various operational contexts including space.
- Critical Infrastructure & Logistics: Focusing on the secure and trustworthy operation of critical national and international infrastructure, and global supply chains across various domains.
Across these challenges, innovators are encouraged to consider the interconnection of applications and technologies across three different cross-cutting domains.
- Space: The environment of space represents a vast and largely unexplored frontier with immense potential for scientific discovery and technological innovation.
- Resilience: This theme emphasises the need for solutions and technologies that can withstand and quickly recover from disruptions or threats.
- Sustainability: DIANA seeks to emphasise the importance of developing and implementing environmentally friendly, energy-efficient technologies and practices that ensure long-term viability.
Innovators will receive funding to enable participation in the DIANA accelerator programme, which starts in January 2025, and they will embark upon a six-month intensive programme custom-designed for early-stage dual-use start-ups. They will have access to mentorship and testing facilities, as well as access to trusted investor and end-user networks to help them move from ideation to real-world adoption in defence and civilian markets.
John Ridge, Director, Defence Innovation said: “The UK strongly supports DIANA and its new challenge areas. These build on the successful first year of DIANA’s operation, and we look forward to seeing the results of these programmes in the hands of war fighters. Through these programmes and the partnership between the NATO Innovation Fund and DIANA we expect to see innovators scale to meet the challenges faced by all Allies. In its pilot challenge call in 2023, DIANA received over 1,300 applications from innovators across the Alliance. 44 successful innovators from 19 countries were selected to form DIANA’s inaugural cohort, joining a six-month accelerator boot-camp programme in January 2024 at five accelerator sites in Europe and North America.”
Find out more about the challenges and apply on the DIANA challenge portal: https://www.diana.nato.int/challenges.html
(Source: https://www.gov.uk/)
10 Jul 24. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has announced the design and construction of the Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration (SHEPARD) vehicle. The uncrewed air system developed for DARPA recently received its official X-plane designation of XRQ-73. Built in collaboration with Scaled Composites, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, the XRQ-73 SHEPARD is a DARPA “X-prime” program leveraging hybrid electric architecture and component technologies to quickly mature a new mission-focused aircraft design with propulsion architecture and power class for the Department of Defense.
09 Jul 24. US, USMC, test new laser projection system to paint aircraft.
The Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East is testing how a laser projection system can help the Marine Corps with painting their aircraft, part of an attempt to cut the time an aircraft spends in maintenance.
Aircraft are traditionally painted using a masking technique, requiring painters to use tape, film and paper to outline certain markings for a particular aircraft.
The new system being tested projects insignia and markings directly on the aircraft, providing the exact placement of objects that need painting without all the masking.
So far, the laser projection system is dramatically easier to use than the old stenciling method, according to Steven Lofy, senior materials engineer for the center’s corrosion and wear team.
“It takes an extensive amount of time and labor to mask aircraft for the application of major markings and insignia during the final finish process,” Lofy said in a statement. “It’s a demanding process based on old, paper drawings that can be difficult to read, making it challenging for our artisans to mask the exact areas on each aircraft consistently.”
It’s also saving time, he said.
“With the laser projection system, we can simply come in, turn on the projectors and actually project where each marking should be on the aircraft,” Lofy said. “All we have to do from there is line each stencil up, mask and paint.”
The readiness center first utilized the system in January on a Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey for the aircraft’s signature white, horizontal stripes — resulting in an 85 percent decrease in labor hours. While the process previously took roughly 16 hours, the projector brought that number down to two.
The center has used the laser projection system to paint four aircraft so far and plans are underway to use the system more broadly by uploading 2D stencils to the projection system’s software, according to the Navy.
Based out of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, the center provides maintenance and repairs for Marine Corps aircraft — including the F-35B Lightning II. It is one of the Navy’s eight fleet readiness centers. (Source: Navy Times)
10 Jul 24. Amazon Web Services partnership for Edgility. Edgility becomes first AWS solution for AWS IoT Greengrass service that offers Edge Deployment and Management at Scale.
BATM (LSE: BVC; TASE: BVC), a leading provider of real-time technologies for networking solutions and medical laboratory systems, is pleased to announce that Edgility, the Group’s virtualisation and edge compute platform, has become an Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) Qualified Software Partner solution for AWS IoT Greengrass, an open-source edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy and manage intelligent device software.
This represents a further route-to-market for Edgility, particularly as it is the only AWS solution available for AWS IoT Greengrass users that enables zero-touch deployment and provisioning of any device hosted on-premise (as opposed to in a public cloud or remote data centre) as well as management and orchestration of networking, security and AWS services at scale. As part of the AWS Partner Network (“APN”), the Group will also leverage the APN Customer Engagements program whereby partners collaborate and co-sell with AWS to discover new sales opportunities.
To become an AWS Partner, Edgility underwent a thorough Foundational Technical Review by AWS. As a result, Edgility has been technically validated by AWS and its qualified software partner status is testament to its experience and proven success delivering AWS services to customers.
Moti Nagar, Chief Executive Officer of BATM, said: “This is a great endorsement of our Edgility solution and validation of our commitment to providing customers with the highest possible levels of security, reliability and operational excellence for their large-scale edge-to-cloud deployments. As the only AWS solution that offers edge deployment and management at scale, we are well-placed to expand our business into the vast AWS IoT Greengrass customer base. We look forward to leveraging our partner status to drive Edgility sales growth in the near term and to collaborating with AWS to explore other exciting opportunities in the future.”
08 Jul 24. Defense Innovation Unit project makes supercomputers more accessible. A Defense Innovation Unit project to link the Pentagon’s high-performance computers with cloud-based services could soon bring real-time, high-speed data processing to military users around the world.
DIU, whose mission is to help the U.S. Department of Defense better leverage commercial technology, worked with two computing firms on the 18-month effort: Rescale, headquartered in San Francisco, and Parallel Works, based out of Chicago.
The companies partnered with DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program, which is working to make decision-making tools enabled by supercomputers more accessible across the department — from researchers and acquisition officials to operators in the field.
The military uses supercomputers to quickly process large amounts of data that can be used to inform decisions or simulate complex scenarios. For example, a unit could use high-performance computing to understand how the weather forecast might impact a planned ISR operation. Or an engineer designing lighter body armor for soldiers could use it to research materials.
The Pentagon relies largely on physical computers — which are expensive to buy and maintain — to perform this work. Through the DIU effort, Rescale and Parallel Works demonstrated that they could provide these computing tools on the cloud, which means users don’t have to have access to a physical computer to take advantage of the capability.
“Researchers are [now] able to access cloud resources when appropriate to augment their work at on-premises centers,” Benjamin Parsons, chief technology officer for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program, said in a June 27 statement. “This has given them access to a wider variety of hardware, and the ability to scale resources beyond what is currently possible, all within one secure, easy to use, environment.”
Both firms are poised to receive production contracts later this year to scale their high-computing platforms to more users.
Matt McKee, Rescale’s chief operating officer, told C4ISRNET in a July 3 interview that cloud-based computing platforms have played a key role in the private sectors, which have used these tools to significantly reduce engineering cycle times for new product releases.
Those capabilities, he said, could change the way DoD develops, tests and fields new systems over the next three to five years.
“You’re seeing that type of thing reverberating through the private sector industry — so, how do we make sure that the U.S. government also has that agility,” he said. “We need to be able to incorporate everything new that is available to us and put all those resources to bear.”
(Source: Defense News)
08 Jul 24. DSIT bolstered to better serve the British public through science and technology. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) will expand in both scope and size bringing experts in data, digital and AI from the Government Digital Service (GDS) the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) and the Incubator for AI (iAI) to unite efforts in the digital transformation of public services under one department.
Transforming public services and fuelling economic growth through science and technology will be the defining mission of a revamped department under the Secretary of State Peter Kyle, as he takes the first steps towards building a modern digital government.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) will expand in both scope and size bringing experts in data, digital and AI from the:
- Government Digital Service (GDS)
- Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO)
- Incubator for AI (iAI)
to unite efforts in the digital transformation of public services under one department.
This move will drive forward the digital changes needed to overhaul the British public’s experience of interacting with the government, so it becomes personalised, convenient, and timesaving – for example, by providing people with just one way to login and prove who they are so they can quickly access the government services they need. It will also help remove roadblocks to sharing data across the public sector.
This will form part of wider efforts to launch DSIT as the digital centre of government, working closely with the Cabinet Office and the Treasury, to maximise the potential of digital, data and technology to deliver for the British public.
DSIT will become the partner and standard bearer for government departments as it supports them to use technology across areas like energy, health, policing, and education. It will help to upskill civil servants so they are better at using digital and AI in their frontline work, as well as ensure the government has the right infrastructure and regulation to become more digital.
Secretary of State Peter Kyle said: “Britain will not fully benefit from the social and economic potential of science and technology without government leading by example. So, DSIT is to become the centre for digital expertise and delivery in government, improving how the government and public services interact with citizens. We will act as a leader and partner across government, with industry and the research communities, to boost Britain’s economic performance and power up our public services to improve the lives and life chances of people through the application of science and technology. In addition to driving forward a modern digital government, the Secretary of State will lead DSIT to accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science and research across the economy, as well as ensure technologies are safely developed and deployed across the country, with the benefits more widely shared.” (Source: https://www.gov.uk/)
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