Originally Published in the January – March 2019 Issue of ARMY AL&T MAGAZINE

Keeping U.S. warfighters prepared on the battlefield, at sea or in the sky is highly complex, requiring DOD to work with outside contractors to procure hundreds if not thousands of systems to effectively meet its needs. These top-tier prime contractors then team with myriad subcontractors to help complete the work. For more than 35 years, General Micro Systems (GMS) was one of those subcontractors, helping to build rugged, high-density, high-performance, conduction-cooled computing systems for military applications.

Originally Published in the January Special Edition of RUGGED COMPUTING

General Micro Systems Inc. (GMS) recently announced that the U.S. Army will exclusively deploy powerful rugged server and display systems from GMS to run the multifunction video display (MVD) software within Type II medium mine protection vehicles (MMPV). The GMS system comprises four components — two chassis and two displays. It also includes an enterprise-class, ultrarugged, secure server with an intelligent 12-port 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet switch, a router, mass-media storage, CITV/DVR, video-over-IP, and two ultra-thin, rugged smart-panel PCs. When coupled with a video encoder, the system is a complete full motion video and control system with storage.

Originally Published in the October issue of MILITARY & AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS

There's a serious cyber warfare problem that may be affecting some deployed U.S. military and aerospace mission-critical embedded computing systems, and nobody really wants to talk about it.

Originally Published in the October issue of BLOOMBERG

The October 4 Bloomberg article “The Big Hack” alleges that China added tiny spy chips to servers made by Supermicro that reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple. While all three deny the allegations, a new article from the publication this week shares new evidence of hacked Supermicro hardware found in a US telecom company.