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Placing Data Center Storage Technology at the Tactical Edge
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POTENTIAL DATA STORAGE PLATFORM BENEFACTORS
▪ Future Vertical Lift (FVL) is the U.S. Army's plan to create
a family of five different-size military helicopter platforms.
Ultimately meant to replace helicopters such as the UH-60
Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook, the FVL
aircraft are being designed to share common parts such as
sensors, avionics and engines. Determining the onboard
sensors and computing and processing electronics
needed for FVL requires the collection of large amounts
of data from whole flight and specific, complex scenarios
such as landing in fog, brownouts and blackouts.
▪ The U.S. Navy 's Boeing P-8 Poseidon is a multiple-mission
patrol aircraft. It performs anti-submarine, anti-surface,
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
missions in addition to search and rescue. It is also armed
with torpedoes and anti-ship missiles, is capable of
deploying and monitoring sonobuoys, and can coordinate
with drones. The P-8, also equipped with the Navy 's
most advanced sensors and radars, could greatly benefit
from low-latency access to petabytes of storage.
