Aitech announced that it will be demonstrating a number of exciting new ruggedised and compact COTS graphics boards and highly flexible computer systems for harsh, environmentally-demanding defence and aerospace applications at DSEi 2011 ExCeL London, 16-19 September, Stand S7-1010.

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in embedded systems design and development products for space applications, has promoted James Fults to director of engineering for the company’s space business sector. Fults replaces Anthony Lai.

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true military VMEbus technologies and an independent manufacturer of open architecture boards and subsystem products for defense and aerospace applications, now offers a 3U VPX product family based on the low-power Intel Core i7 processor that enables extremely high computing within very compact environments. The new Core i7 can process data using two cores and four threads via Intel's hyperthreading tech...

Aitech Rugged Group announced the appointment of Moshe Tal as the company’s new CEO. Mr. Tal replaces Roger Rowe, who retired as CEO and chairman in September 2010 after a six-year tenure that grew Aitech’s business from $9 million to $26 million in revenue.

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., the world’s first and largest independent manufacturer of open architecture electronic boards and subsystem level products for harsh, environmentally-demanding defense and aerospace applications, now offers the S750, the space industry’s first COTS, radiation-tolerant, Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switch PCI mezzanine card (PMC) that quickly and reliably transfers Ethernet data to and from GbE NIC end-points and the h...

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., the world’s first and largest independent manufacturer of open architecture electronic boards and subsystem level products for harsh, environmentally-demanding defense and aerospace applications, now offers a customizable 2-slot 3U CompactPCI (CPCI) enclosure that provides flexible electronic configurations as well as exceptionally reliable operation.

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., the world’s first and largest independent manufacturer of open architecture electronic boards and subsystem level products for harsh, environmentally-demanding defense and aerospace applications, now offers the NightHawk RCU, an extremely rugged, compact Intel Atom-based, self-contained control unit that weighs only 4.5 lbs, almost half that of similar models currently available.

The OpenVPX Industry Working Group, an alliance of VITA member defense and aerospace prime contractors and embedded computing systems suppliers focused on addressing VPX (VITA 46) system-level interoperability issues, has announced on schedule the completion of the OpenVPX draft V0.8 specification.

Aitech Defense Systems Inc. has released a new rugged 3U single-slot CompactPCI single board computer (SBC) that offers up to 8 GB of onboard SATA flash disk storage. This reduces the need for external flash-based or mechanical disk drives making the system’s PMC site available to add user specific I/O.