Why Intel: Powerful Devices Help Drive Mission Success
Federal and aerospace customers that need edge computing devices are challenged today by proprietary, custom-built, unique solutions that are high cost and don’t offer much reusability or margin for growth. These limitations make it harder to integrate new solutions and new capabilities while meeting strict requirements for certification, ruggedization, and performance in a small footprint. As an industry leader with a broad portfolio, Intel helps enterprises and agencies better understand how to integrate COTS solutions for successful edge-to-cloud deployments.
Full Technology Stack with Certification Artifacts
Enterprises and technology providers can get the hardware, software, and services and benefit from Intel’s expertise in the industry to help design and deploy a full technology stack that delivers to mission need and satisfies key requirements like airworthiness or automotive certification.
SWaP-C Ready, Ruggedized Solutions
Intel-enabled solutions are ruggedized for use in all-weather conditions and to withstand extreme temperatures, rough terrain, dust, salt, vibration, and shock. High performance in small-footprint, low-power designs enables situational awareness for field devices or portable servers meeting size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) requirements.
Hardware-Enabled Security
From edge devices to cloud use cases, Intel delivers server-class hardware with world-class security features, high data throughput and bandwidth, interoperability, and long product life cycles to help maximize the value of technology investments.
Support for Time-Sensitive Workloads
With many offerings that support Intel® Time-Coordinated Computing (Intel® TCC) for Time-Sensitive Networking, Intel provides hardware that meets strict requirements for latency-bounded workloads in safety-critical avionics applications.
Federal and Aerospace Innovations
Intel® technology helps solve the problems of cost, complexity, and interoperability for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) use cases.
New Rugged Plug-In Card for Sensor-Based Systems
High performance for I/O sensor devices with Concurrent Technologies and Intel® Xeon® W technology.
Airworthiness Evidence for DDC-I UAVs
Select SKUs of 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors support deterministic compute to help meet Design Assurance Level (DAL) certification requirements.
Up to 1.46x More Performance1 for Trenton Servers
Gen-on-gen performance gains in 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors enable the Trenton Systems ruggedized server for the tactical edge.
Up to 10 TFLOPS in Military FPGAs for Radar
Intel® Stratix® FPGAs offer high performance with precise signal processing for radar, electronic warfare, and encrypted communications.
Intel AEP and AMC-20-152A
Intel® Airworthiness Evidence Package (AEP) to meet the COTS Objectives of AMC-20-152A.
Evaluating Safety-Certifiable Computing for Tomorrow’s Avionics
Safety certification, a long-time requirement for commercial aircraft, is also now needed for many defense platforms and autonomous vehicles. New applications are raising the bar for safety-certifiable processing. See how Mercury and Intel solved these challenges.
Grow Your Security Readiness and Resiliency
Advanced physical protection with hardware-enabled cryptography, key management, and remote attestation technologies can help customers operate through or under attacks.
Intel Addresses IoT Cybersecurity Policy
The Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity environment is evolving. Intel’s security practices and technologies can help device manufacturers address new market policies and regulatory developments.
Full Encryption for Data in Memory
Intel® Total Memory Encryption (Intel® TME) helps protect against hardware-based attacks by encrypting all data within memory.
Hardware-Based Defense Against Malware
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) enables a root of trust by isolating application execution environments.
Protection for Boot Loaders, BIOS, and OS
Intel® Boot Guard and Intel® OS Guard help protect systems by rejecting uncredentialed executions during system start-up.
Helping Secure Supply Chains
Hardware-enabled accountability and assurance help trace and ensure platform authenticity for foreign military sales (FMS).
Eliminate Delays and Enable High Performance
The Intel® portfolio includes a wide breadth of hardware platforms that deliver fast results with simplified deployments and software-enablement tools.
Intel® Processors
Get high performance and ruggedized SKUs for devices, edge computing platforms, edge servers, data centers, and the cloud.
Intel® FPGAs
Use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate data flow, workload processing, and cryptography through systems or networks.
Intel® Ethernet
Move more data faster and achieve up to 100GbE speeds with Intel® network adapters and optics.
Intel 5G
Take advantage of high-bandwidth, low-latency communications to enable AI and other demanding use cases at the edge.
Intel® Labs
Explore cutting-edge solutions in quantum computing, HPC, neuromorphic computing, and integrated photonics.
Intel® Developer Zone
Access programming and tuning guides and interface with a global community of developers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems refer to hardware that is commercially and publicly available for procurement. Many agencies depend on COTS as a technological foundation, which they combine with proprietary software for deeper customization or to enable unique capabilities. The ability to integrate COTS into cost-efficient solutions for the field, data center, or cloud while meeting certification, ruggedization, and SWaP-C requirements is a top priority for federal and aerospace customers.
Intel offers a vast, end-to-end portfolio of solutions built to leverage open source and COTS hardware/software. Solution providers benefit from exceptional performance and interoperability, along with select ruggedized SKUs that can withstand harsh environments, shock, and vibration. Intel also helps accelerate certification processes for airworthiness and DAL by providing evidence packages and processor artifacts and long-life product availability to help minimize recertification efforts.
Hardware-enabled security features include Intel® TME for enhanced memory encryption, Intel® TXT to help establish a root of trust at system start-up, and transparent supply chain tools to help ensure the authenticity of platforms for FMS. Intel also offers made-in-the-USA components to help satisfy agency requirements for key deployments.