Cześć z Warszawy w Polsce (or "Hello from Warsaw, Poland")

17 January 2018
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Today finds us at Electronic Warfare 2018, a conference and exhibition in Warsaw, Poland centered  on  the increasing importance of EW and Cyber to the modern military. In fact, yesterday was Cyber Focus Day, providing the military, government agencies and industry organizations an opportunity to discuss ways to realign their electronic warfare and cyber capabilities while improving cooperation on joint operations.

Because electronic warfare is a key market segment for Abaco, we’re a sponsor of Electronic Warfare 2018, along with other major companies in our industry including Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins and Saab.

As the organizers point out, NATO plans to spend $3.24 billion over the next three years to advance its satellite and computer technology in line with new threats. In addition, NATO is spending $176m on next generation training equipment specifically for electronic warfare.

Beyond this, a recent article in Military Embedded Systems magazine notes that the global electronic warfare (EW) market - valued at more than $13 billion in 2017 - will grow at a combined annual growth rate of more than 2.6% to be worth $17.7 billion by 2027, according to a forecast by analysts at Strategic Defence Intelligence.

Benefiting from growth

We believe we’re well placed to help our customers develop EW solutions – not least because of our November 2016 acquisition of 4DSP. Founded in 2004, 4DSP – now our Advanced RF and DSP organization - designs and manufactures commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) high speed digital signal processing and data acquisition solutions based on FPGA technology to address the specific requirements of aerospace and defense.

Our range of products designed for the EW market help our customers turn sensor-acquired data into actionable information in the shortest time and at the lowest bandwidth in a broad range of digital and analog applications.

Abaco’s FPGA based systems provide a rapid migration path from the lab to the field - without having to re-architect an entire system. Our FPGA Mezzanine Cards bring modularity to high performance I/O - whether the requirement is for high bandwidth ADCs and DACs for radar applications, Gigabit Ethernet for digital communications, or clock and trigger distribution for multi-board synchronization. Our customers take advantage of Abaco’s FPGA cards built on open standards and with a high degree of configurability in order to address a wide range of applications - without the expense and extensive development time of custom in-house developments.

We’re at Electronic Warfare 2018 to talk to organizations who can leverage our experience, expertise and extensive product offering. Perhaps we should be talking to you? You can contact us here

Rubin Dhillon

Rubin has spent over 20 years in the embedded computing world, in roles ranging from support to sales to product management and even garbage collector. He experienced the huge growth (and crash) of the telecom industry, and he's spent time dabbling in medical, industrial, transportation and military applications. Rubin figured he has so many stories to tell, he should get into marketing and so he is now our VP of Marketing. Connect with Rubin on LinkedIn and he'll explain the "garbage collector" story…