Spectra Aerospace & Defense is a trusted and growing platform of C5ISR companies – CALCULEX, Galleon Embedded Computing, and ArgonFDS - bringing over a half-century of rugged, mission-ready, battle-tested experience to bear in aerospace and defense applications. From high-speed data acquisition, data recording and secure, high-density storage, to computing and rugged, clear display of mission data, Spectra delivers the products and subsystems needed for the most demanding military air, land, and sea platforms. With our comprehensive portfolio of rugged products, systems, and solutions, the Spectra family of companies’ customized end-to-end solutions for the C5ISR market help military end-users achieve mission success. Simply put, Spectra's rugged solutions Capture, Process, and Display your mission-critical data in the harshest environmental conditions. In the air, at sea, on land, and in space; We simplify integration.

CAPTURE

Data Acquisition

Sensor Recording

PROCESS

Mission Computing

Encrypted Storage

NAS & File Serving

Processing & Routing

DISPLAY

Displays

Peripherals

Tablets

Workstations

Solving UUV Long Duration Challenges

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Unmanned or autonomous underwater vehicle systems of today present never before seen capabilities for extended-duration missions ranging from commercial to military applications including:

  • inspection and recovery
  • environmental exploration and research
  • mine detection and clearing
  • swimmer detection/port protection

These systems leave no place for traditional large and power-hungry payloads. Additionally, the nature of these extended-duration missions requires both compute and storage density pushing the boundaries of current technology.

For this application example, Galleon solved these challenges with a NAS system offering high bandwidth IO, unmatched storage density along minimal size and power.

 

HOW PRODUCT HELPED

Galleon XSR 10GbE NAS provides the highest storage capacity per cubic space of all available rugged products, which provided a perfect solution for this application. The combination of GbE and 10GbE ports provided a single centralized product for all data transfer and storage
requirements.

The 10GbE ports are used for high bandwidth offload (when the removable storage cannot easily be extracted), and the GbE ports are used for sending sensor data (raw and post-processed) to the storage during the mission.

With up to 80 Terabytes of storage available, even the longest duration mission lengths are supported.

Advanced AES-XTS encryption provides essential data security for this type of unmanned underwater vehicle application.

 

RESULTS AND FUTURE PLANS

Selecting Galleon COTS XSR 10GbE NAS product into their mission payload has proven to be a winning strategy for this Galleon customer.

With Galleon’s solid commitment to long life cycle sustainment as well as a roadmap projecting even further technology enhancements in the same packaging footprints, designers were able to focus their efforts on other more complex system challenges and speed their time to market via a shortened and simplified development cycle for their data collection and processing subsystems.

For even smaller systems with minimal payload power budgets, the Galleon G1 microServer, microNAS, and microRecorder family enable system designers to meet the most challenging SWAP requirements while still being able to collect up to 40 Terabytes of data on a single removable data module.

The Solution

 

🗹 XSR 10GBE NAS

🗹 80TB STORAGE

🗹 GBE PORTS – SENDS SENSOR DATA, RAW AND POST-PROCESSED

🗹 10GBE PORTS – HIGH BANDWIDTH OFFLOAD

🗹 ADVANCED AES-XTS ENCRYPTION8TB REMOVABLE DATA MODULE
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