Government and Defense Industry Overview

Supporting UAV and battlefield infrastructure built to scale with the ever-increasing demand for secure, distributed communication bandwidth.

How Does ADL Help in the Government and Defense Sectors

 Key features for Ruggedized Systems, COTS to Custom

Limitless

Design flexibility is expanded through vast ecosystem of CPU and peripheral I/O building blocks to allow optimal balance of features, intelligence, and power.

Intelligent

Our broad portfolio of Intel-based CPU’s enable Intelligent system controllers for execution algorithms, analytics and better local-decision making for reduced downtime and increase productivity.

Safe

Strong foundation in CPU board design, system design and supporting firmware makes for reliable, robust intelligent controllers and systems for critical applications.

Specific

Close collaboration with customers allows for unique system configurations incorporating the latest hardware and customer-specific technologies.

Available Solutions

ADL Embedded Solutions products and capabilities frequently used for the government and defense industries

Compact Embedded

Compact Embedded Systems for Industrial Environments

ADL Embedded Solutions offers compact embedded systems engineered for reliability in space- and power-constrained applications. These fanless, wide-temperature platforms are ideal for ICS/SCADA, grid monitoring, oil and gas sites, and Factory 4.0 applications—delivering industrial-grade performance in a small footprint.

Rugged EMBEDDED

Rugged Embedded Systems for Extreme Conditions

Designed to meet MIL-STD and industrial standards, our rugged embedded platforms provide exceptional resilience to shock, vibration, and thermal stress. Ideal for mission-critical deployments in defense, aerospace, and heavy industry, they enable dependable operation in the harshest environments—without compromise.

CUSTOM SYSTEMS

Custom Embedded Platforms Tailored to Your Application

ADL’s custom embedded systems accelerate deployment with tailored solutions built around your exact I/O, performance, thermal, and mechanical needs. Whether adapting a standard design or delivering a fully integrated turnkey build, we offer field-proven reliability, reduced development time, and long-lifecycle flexibility.

Intelligent Edge

Edge AI Embedded Systems for Industrial Intelligence

Our intelligent edge platforms deliver real-time performance for AI, machine vision, automation, and autonomous control. Combining high-performance processing with rugged or compact designs, they’re optimized for industrial edge computing—fully customizable for robotics, smart infrastructure, and OEM applications.

Recommended Products

 Key products that are frequently requested by customers within the Goverment & Defense Industries

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ADL Embedded Solutions is well-versed in not only defining SBC and peripheral expansion board solutions for a variety of applications but also in designing, creating, and integrating custom enclosures that meet both low and high IP requirements for extended temperatures and rugged environments required of Goverment and Defense projects.

Government and Defense Sectors We Support

Offering solutions for both small and large infrastructure needs. 

UAV

SWaP-constrained UAV applications benefit from SBCs featuring Intel Core i7 processors, AVX and 256bit-wide floating point data path which more than doubles the peak floating point performance over previous Intel Core Duo and Core i7 processors. SBCs with integrated HD3000 graphics core help reduce board count by integrating floating point and vector processing operations that previously required separate peripheral boards to accomplish. For UAV ground control stations (GSCs), single board computers with PCIe point-to-point fabric (2.5GT/s and 5GT/s) provide optimal I/O flexibility for incoming ISR from UAVs and outgoing ISR to troops and other analysis groups.

  • SWaP-constrained UAV applications
  • Double peak floating point performance
  • Integrated floating point and vector processing operations

Command & Control

The key for many Command and Control applications is flexible I/O features coupled with sufficient processing power for computation and traffic management. The ADLQM67PC shines in this regard with Gen2 PCIe, 2xSATA rev. 3.0 at 6Gb/s, 8xUSB 2.0 and 2xGLAN ports. Legacy applications requiring PCI connectivity are well suited for either the ADLGS45PC PCI/104-Express SBC or the ADL945PC PCI/104 SBC.

  • Flexible I/O features
  • Processing power for computation and traffic management

Communications & Networking

The ADLGS45PC with 2xGLAN onboard and optional  4xGLAN expansion via the PCIe backplane has found wide use in several defense mini-router applications.  For one-way secure data transfer schemes requiring multiple SBCs, the ADLS15PC has been used with good success.  Mil-Std 1553 applications have been implemented with ADLS15PC, ADLGS45PC, and via the miniPCIe socket on the ADLD25 SBCs.

  • Diverse defense mini-router applications
  • One-way secure data transfer schemes
  • Reliable custom system solutions for renewable energy
  • Rugged computing design for deployment in any environment
  • Optimize capacity & scheduling
  • High-resolution, low latency encoders & resolvers
  • EtherCat industrial control systems

Imaging & DSP​

Imaging and DSP applications have long made use of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) or custom DSP peripheral cards.  These applications require high-bandwidth backplanes for data transfer to and from the SBC and work well with the 1×16 PEG PCIe lane capabilities (2.5Gb/s lanes) of the ADLGS45PC.  Similar applications requiring even greater bandwidth can move up to the ADLQM67PC (5Gb/s PCIe lanes) or in some instances, even make use of the ADLQM67PC integrated graphics core to eliminate the need for off-board vector processing or DSP hardware.

  • High-bandwidth backplanes for efficient data transfer
  • Eliminate the need for off-board vector processing hardware

Misson Computers

Traditional military avionics are now making way for more modern interconnected, integrated systems that allow for more situational battlefield awareness for pilots. This data-rich environment now requires much the same level of SBC performance as Command and Control systems with ISR to and from ground stations and UAV assets. Single board computers with plenty of I/O port options, backplane bandwidth and processing power capabilities are very well suited for these applications as well.

  • Interconnected, integrated systems
  • Situational battlefield awareness for pilots

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