Packaging AI and edge computing for the rugged environment of the battlefield
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Originally broadcasted: April 22, 2025
Duration: 1 hour
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Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) computing is a core technology thrust for the U.S. military and its allies, and much research is going into emulating human reasoning in computer hardware and software. One big challenge involves packaging AI computers that are small and rugged enough to operate on the leading edge of the battlefield, where systems are subject to extremes in shock and vibration, temperature, and electromagnetic radiation.
Given limited resources, packaging challenges for AI on the battlefield involve optimizing software, making do with limited computing, networking, and power resources, relying on inference engines rather than computer learning, choosing augmented vision capabilities, cooling and thermal management, and how to feed data to deployed battlefield AI systems.
Join us for this webinar where we’ll explore how aerospace and defense computing designers can overcome these challenges and package AI computer hardwareand software to withstand the rigors of the battlefield today and in the future.
Speakers:
Bill Pilaud
Chief Solutions Architect
LCR Embedded Systems
Bill Pilaud, Chief Solutions Architect at LCR Embedded Systems, has 35 years of experience in the embedded computing industry and is a recognized expert in open architecture systems including VME, VPX and SOSA.
He has worked in variety roles at Mercury, Motorola, Curtiss-Wright, Concurrent, Vicor and Abaco. Throughout his career, Bill has held positions as a Line Engineer, Field Applications Engineer as well as roles in Sales, Product Marketing Management, Product Line Management and General Management.
Bill holds earned his BS in Computer Engineering at Clemson University and his MBA at Northeastern.
Justin Moll
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Pixus Technologies, Inc.
Justin Moll is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Pixus Technologies and has been with the company since 2012. He’s active in trade associations such as VITA and PICMG and served as the Vice President of Marketing for PICMG. Justin has been a keynote speaker and featured commentator at multiple embedded computing industry events.
Dominic Perez
Chief Technology Officer | Curtiss-Wright Technical Fellow
PacStar, Defense Solutions Division | Curtiss-Wright
Dominic Perez, CISSP is the CTO at Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions and a Curtiss-Wright Technical Fellow, with PacStar since 2008 he joined Curtiss-Wright through their acquisition of PacStar in 2020. In the past 13 years, he has supported development of PacStar’s rugged, tactical hardware and IQ-Core Software serving as the subject matter expert for compute, virtualization and virtualized network functions. Dominic is part of the team that won tactical networking equipment and software awards for numerous DoD tactical programs including the US Army T2C2, US Army SFAB, US Army ESB-E, PM TN Secure Wireless Small Form Factor, PEOC3T TCNO, and US Marine Corps NOTM vehicle-mount and deployable communications programs.
Dominic currently leads the teams developing Curtiss-Wright’s PacStar Commercial Solutions for Classified, Modular Data Center, and Tactical Fusion System product lines deploying cutting edge secure communications, edge data processing, and rapid sensor to shooter situational awareness to the warfighter at the tactical edge systems in the face of disconnected, limited, and intermittent (DIL) comms environments.
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