Army Stricom to install $2 million Mercury Video Editing System for training U.S. forces.CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1996-- News-Like Production System Gives Mercury Computer Systems Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. NASDAQ: MRCY provides high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing solutions. Mercury designs and builds embedded multicomputers, which may be considered to be either loosely coupled Early Success In Digital Video Editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. Venture Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM STRICOM Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command STRICOM Simulation, Training & Instrumentation Command (US Army) ) has ordered Mercury's video editing system to record and evaluate training exercises. The $2 million contract, which Mercury received from Hughes Technical Services Company, a unit of Hughes Aircraft Hughes Aircraft Company was a major aerospace and defense company founded by Howard Hughes. The group was based near Ballona Creek, in Culver City, California, USA, on the Pacific Coast. Hughes Aircraft was acquired by General Motors in 1985. Company, is for the installation of a fully functional digital video editing system to be integrated into the National Training Center Instrumentation System located at Fort Irwin, California. The installation will be similar to highly advanced television network systems that allow newsworthy events to be selectively and rapidly retrieved and edited in real time from a vast array of previously recorded video data. STRICOM'S on-line disk storage will hold more than 100 hours of immediately accessible data, with an additional 300 hours accessible through archival tape storage. The National Training Center Instrumentation System will include a number of video editing workstations linked by Mercury's MDVS-1200R digital video server. "This application of our digital video editing server will allow noteworthy training from many sources to be edited for immediate playback," said Jay Bertelli, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. "Whether it's a national television network or the U.S. Army, there are tangible savings when this latest level of technology is applied to the video editing market. IOm encouraged by the early success of our new venture." The Fort Irwin training center provides the U.S. Army forces with a facility to conduct and record training exercises, and to play back important sequences for evaluation - a process known as "After Action Review." Relevant material is gathered from numerous sources, including audio/video recordings of field activities, tactical communications Tactical communications are tactical, and therefore a great advantage if you have them and the enemy does not, and communications in which information of any kind, especially orders and decisions, are conveyed from one command, person, or place to another within the tactical monitors, and instrumentation systems. The activities of armored and mechanical tactical maneuver Noun 1. tactical maneuver - a move made to gain a tactical end tactical manoeuvre, maneuver, manoeuvre move - the act of deciding to do something; "he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer" units, as well as light infantry infantry soldiers selected and trained for rapid evolutions. See also: Light and fire support units, are recorded for subsequent playback and evaluation. In response to emerging market opportunities in digital video editing, Mercury is developing a new generation of non- linear media servers that leverage the company's real-time, high-bandwidth PCI/RACEway technology. The first of the MDVS family of servers, the MDVS-1200R, manages the storage of large video libraries used in broadcast news and in production and post-production studios using small editing suites. Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. is a technology company specializing in high-performance computing solutions for diagnostic medical imaging, commercial and defense image and signal processing, and servers for digital video editing. Mercury's RACE(R) Series, with its heterogeneous multicomputing hardware and software architecture, allows customers to build the most cost-effective system for their applications. CONTACT: Leigh McLeod, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. 508-256-1300 Krystyna Stachowiak, Coltrin & Associates, 212-221-1616 Visit Mercury on the WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. at http://www.mc.com |
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