Design Wins Spotlight

• The curse of sequestration

  

  If you are like me, you’ve never heard the term sequestration as it relates to budgets until sometime last summer. Now it has become a part of our everyday fiscal vocabulary. But how real is sequestration? Why has it become such an issue? What’s the big deal about a five percent budget cut?

  Jerry Gipper Contributor

• OpenVPX platform delivers horsepower needed to revolutionize helicopter flying

  

  Mercury Computer Systems' OpenVPX Application-Ready Subsystem is one of the latest VITA design wins, playing into the Raytheon ADAS helicopter system.

  Jerry Gipper Editorial Director