Brochure

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The UAS concept has more than proved its effectiveness in military

and many other deployments around the world. There is no doubt

that the presence of UAV platforms will continue to grow as military,

security and emergency response forces continue to extoll the

merits of platforms that can accomplish more with less manpower

and risk while costing much less than manned aircraft.

Platform-centric systems and architectures

that rely on proprietary interfaces will give

way to a network-centric paradigm based

on open architectures. Advances in open

standards performance, such as OpenVPX

high-speed serial fabrics, along with the

ability to bridge legacy devices make it

possible to develop scalable and interop-

erable network-centric subsystems with

substantially lower development and logis-

tical risks. System designs will incorporate

ruggedized commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)

components for the fastest time-to-market

using the latest technologies.

The sky is the limit

Civilian government, scientific agencies and

commercial operations are now looking

toward UAV platforms for their own mission

accomplishment. As the UAS concept

of operations matures, we expect many

exciting changes in how UASs are used for

both military and civilian uses.

With a desire to minimize operator involve-

ment as much as possible in routine flight

control, autonomous flight capabilities will

be a major priority of many UAS customers.

Coupled with this will be a greater level of

high-performance computing so enable the

UAV platforms to fly considerable distances

under their own navigation and control.