As we wrap up day one at AUVSI 2012, I’m pleased to report the Radisys team has had an excellent kick off to the show. A back-to-back meeting schedule included discussions on a wide variety of solutions, including ATCA, LTE, COM E and Trillium. We fielded questions on how our technology can assist with not only communications applications, but deployments that include computers that are high performance and scalable (from a small form factor on up).
In terms of trends, I have been to lots of military shows over the last ten years, and I can see the interest in unmanned vehicles (air, land, and sea) is high and continuing to grow. For example, in ten years’ time, the USA has gone from 100 UAVs to over one-third of the aircraft flown today being unmanned. The same explosion of interest and use cases is happening in ground and sea unmanned systems. All of which need command and control and communications. I’m pleased that Radisys is in step with this trend, and that we have field-proven solutions for our customers looking to meet this market demand.
To close, we heard in more than one meeting, that folks came to see us because one of our existing customers said to them, “well you are working with Radisys on this right?” Kudos to the entire A&D team at Radisys for helping us gain such traction in this competitive industry.
Harry Jensen
Harry Jensen has served as a senior US military officer, with over 35 years of professional experience, including a total of over 10 years in the Pentagon as a Senior Defense Analyst in the Office of Secretary of Defense in Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L), in Program Assessment and Evaluation (PA&E), on the staff of the J-8 Directorate of The Joint Staff supporting the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC), and at US Marine Corps Headquarters as a Branch head in Programs, Plans & Operations. He was selected for military command in combat and in peacetime at all ranks from Second Lieutenant through Colonel. His university education is in mathematics and he is a distinguished graduate of several military schools to include the top-level school, The National War College. Since leaving active duty in the Marine Corps, he has worked for General Dynamics as the Director of an Advanced Programs engineering team developing new capabilities for the US Warfighter in various functional areas such as electro-optic sensor systems and laser weapon platforms. Harry joined Radisys Corporation one year ago to lead the expansion of Radisys into the Aerospace & Defense market by introducing the defense prime contractor community to the advantages of proven, technologically mature, commercial off-the-shelf embedded wireless infrastructure for network-centric warfare initiatives.
