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March 2005

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Publisher's Notebook
Bad News, Good News


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COTS Products


Editorial
Spiral Acquisition: It's About Time, or Is It?


Features

Hardware Assets
Wearable Computers

What the Well-Dressed Warrior May Wear — and Carry
David B. Cotton, Contributing Editor

Computers—wearable and hand-held—will support future warfighters, ensuring personal safety and comfort, enhancing field communications and fire control and providing speedy access to maintenance expertise.

Embedded 3D Solutions Enhance HMI Displays
Mark Snyder, Embedded Software Tools Quantum3D

Implementing 3D graphics no longer requires supercomputing hardware. Leveraging advances in consumer graphics, a rich set of technologies is being applied to military display applications.

On the Softer Side
Software Tool Vendors Directory

Software Development Tool Choices Expand
Jeff Child, Senior Editor

Today’s military embedded software developer can choose from a rich set of development tool, RTOS and middleware products.

Agile MDA Speeds Development of Complex Code: Part I
Stephen J. Mellor, Mentor Graphics

Modeling standards help keep complex projects manageable. Agile MDA puts a faster spin on standards-based modeling methodologies.

Test and Screening
Annual EOL Directory

Obsolescence Management Issues Spawn New DMSMS Guidebook and Center of Excellence
David B. Cotton, Contributing Editor

A new guidebook for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages, plus the Center of Excellence web site, will help the DoD, its contractors and the rest of the industry deal with materials obsolescence problems.

Technology Focus
Rugged Displays

Display Subsystems Jazz Up Their Video Capabilities
Jeff Child, Senior Editor

Vendors of graphics/video boards are leveraging consumer graphics silicon and FPGAs to provide the speedy, integrated military solutions.

Broadcast Compression Schemes Drive Intelligent Video
Lynnda Gray, V.P. Product Management, Titan

Enabling intelligent video spanning the chain of command, from the warfighter to command center, is no simple task. Broadcast quality compression technologies smooth the way.

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