Ray Alderman writes, “Hello Members, As many of you know, VITA is now concentrating on “Critical Embedded Systems” both technically and marketing-wise. All of the standards we are completing in VSO are aimed at “Critical Embedded Systems” applications (high-speed fabric connections, liquid cooling, mezzanines, MTBF calculations, RoHS, Software Defined Radio standards, etc). We have defined CES and the applications, and you will see more on that soon. We will talk more about CES at B&B in January in Long Beach, CA…”