Certified Space Security Specialist Professional (CSSSP) certification is ideal for space and security practitioners, analysts, engineers, managers and executives interested in proving their knowledge across space security practices and principles. Space is integral to America’s economic and commercial success. Space is now also considered a wartime domain on par with land, sea, air and cyber. […]

The space sector is unique in the field of cybersecurity. It is an industry where civil, commercial and military applications seamlessly coexist, creating a haphazard situation for cybersecurity experts and telecommunication engineers. Over several years there has been substantial interest in the issues of cybersecurity and space security but the general consensus is that far […]

DO-178C is the international and de facto standard for certifying all aviation safety-critical software. The purpose of DO-178C is to provide guidance for developing airborne software systems to ensure that it performs its intended function with a level of confidence commiserate with its airworthiness requirement. DO-178C is objective driven and companies may use a variety […]

Root cause analysis (RCA) has become a mainstay in many industries – especially for manufacturers. Root cause analysis is the process of investigating the root causes of why defects are present within a manufacturing process or end product. Many manufacturing professionals only treat an issue’s symptoms, or even its intermediate causes, without fixing the root […]

For systems engineers, Systems Modeling Language (SysML) basically helps in representing system-related information in universally accepted dynamic diagrams. Essentially, SysML extends UML with powerful systems engineering capabilities for modeling a wider spectrum of systems and capturing all aspects of a system’s design. The advantage of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML is the ability to […]

Operators, marketers and sales teams should be hunkering down about now and preparing a successful 5G monetization roadmap as 5G continues to evolved along 3GPP’s timeline. Figuring out how to tap the enterprise market will be critical to CSPs’ 5G success, but they must act fast as large companies in many industry verticals are considering […]

Root cause analysis (RCA) is important in an organization because it can turn negatives into something positive and productive. RCA enables management to think of ways to continually provide improvements and to recommend “out of the box” ideas that may benefit the organization. A main principle of RCA is the belief that systems and events […]

According to the FBI there is no one face to the cybercriminal. Cybercriminal profiles in fact show that these bad actors run the gamut from computer geeks looking for bragging rights, to businesses trying to gain an upper hand in the marketplace by hacking competitor websites. And of course there’s also the professional criminal and […]

The main application of Link 16 is as an air and missile defense command and control system. Link 16 is an encrypted radio frequency widely used by the U.S. military and NATO allies to share critical information. Link 16 terminals are deployed aboard aircraft, land vehicles and ships to facilitate the exchange of data and […]

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is the ability of electrical equipment and systems to function acceptably in their electromagnetic environment.by limiting the unintentional generation, propagation and reception of electromagnetic energy which may cause unwanted effects such as electromagnetic interference (EMI) or even physical damage in operational equipment. The goal of EMC is the correct operation of different equipment in a common […]