Military services, world-wide, face major challenges leveraging their multi-billion dollar investments in weapons systems to ensure that these systems remain current and capable of meeting the war fighting and conflict resolution needs of today’s weapon system operators.  The cost and time needed to upgrade these weapons systems with advanced war fighting capabilities is highly dependent on overcoming the limitations of the existing, low-speed, on-board networks within the platforms in order to integrate modern electronics and avionics that demand substantially more data network capacity than is attainable within these existing networks.

Fiscal and economic realities, along with urgent operational requirements are driving the need for solutions that enable the affordable platform integration and rapid deployment of these new and advanced war fighting capabilities,  

Extended 1553:

• Substantially reduces the cost and time to upgrade capabilities onto platforms
• Provides an order of magnitude reduction in integration time
• Drives a cost-avoidance of many tens of billions of dollars
• Enables the rapid deployment of advanced war fighting capabilities to meet the needs of today’s military operators.

E1553^® can be integrated into various form factors including cPCI, VME and SEM-E.  Please contact Edgewater for details