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02 Mar 09. In an industry first, Raytheon Company established a seamless, tactical wireless network that delivered simultaneous voice, data and video among soldiers, vehicles and unmanned systems. The mobile ad-hoc network was demonstrated during the U.S. Army’s Expeditionary Warrior Experiments for the U.S. Army’s Experimental Force. “We are providing today’s future force with solutions it can use for tomorrow’s challenges,” said Jerry Powlen, vice president, Network Centric Systems’ Integrated Communications Systems. “These exercises highlighted our ability to deliver command and control capabilities and situational awareness for the dismounted soldier.” During the government-sponsored exercises, Raytheon deployed its Enhanced Position Location Reporting System as the tactical wireless network. The EPLRS network provided end-to-end connectivity for soldiers to evaluate networked solutions from unmanned aerial vehicles and other sensors. The company also established a wireless connection between the EPLRS network and its high-capacity, beyond line-of-site troposcatter system. The link enabled high-capacity communication directly to the dismounted soldier in extended ranges without the need for satellites.
03 Mar 09. Aonix®, the provider of the PERC® product line for embedded and real-time Java™ developers, announced the selection of the PERC Ultra virtual machine for the NORMANDIE and Ground Master 400 (GM 400) programs. Deterministic behaviour at a very low latency time (a few milliseconds) was the primary challenges of the applications done in Java™. PERC’s predictable behaviour and deterministic garbage collector enabled the Thales software team to achieve their time-critical execution deadlines. NORMANDIE is a French radar system, funded and managed by the DGA ( Délégation Générale à l’Armement ) and dedicated to Ballistic missile tracking and measurement during the last part of the fly. GM 400 is a new high, medium and low-altitude fully digital radar family of products providing unmatched detection performances as well as outstanding operational availability. With an operational availability of greater than 99.9 percent and a mean time between critical failures of more than 3000 hours, the GM 400 is setting new standards in the air defense radar market. The PERC Virtual Machine is expected to be implemented and deployed in all the of new generation ground based radars sold by Thales. Initial programs are using the PERC toolchain including Aonix’s newest PERC family member, PERC Ultra on Linux as the host development environment targeting PERC’s Virtual Machine on x86 multi-core processors. The applications use a combination of Thales proprietary middleware written in C combined with Java code enabled by the Java™ Native Interface (JNI). An important feature of PERC Ultra, the Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compiler helped Thales to generate binary executables strategic to protection against end-user code tampering or reverse engineering.
05 Mar 09. FLIR Systems, Inc. announced the introduction of a new line of commercial/industrial airborne inspection systems: the Kelvin 275, Corona 350, and Ultra 8000e. The Kelvin 275 is a stabilized multi-sensor airborne system used to detect and measure hot spots in power transmission lines from the air. It features FLIR’s best-in-class 640×480 longwave thermographic camera, which delivers the exceptional sensitivity, resolution, and image quality needed for airborne predictive maintenance inspection applications. The Corona 350 combines an ultraviolet camera, a color video camera, and a 320×240 longwave thermographic camera, creating a comprehensive utility imaging system that lets operators detect coronas, find and measure hot spots, and document easement encroachment, all with one system. What makes the Corona 350 unique is its ability to overlay its ultraviolet and color TV video signals to create an