BAE SYSTEMS Receives $70 Million Contract for Radar Map Display Subsystem on U.K. Tornado Aircraft.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROCHESTER, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2004 BAE Systems Platform Solutions BAE Systems Platform Solutions is part of BAE Systems Electronics and Integrated Solutions, a subsidiary of BAE Systems Inc. The division was formerly known as Lockheed Martin Control Systems (LMCS). has been awarded a $70 million contract to provide 128 radar map display subsystems for U.K. Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 ground attack aircraft A ground-attack aircraft is an aircraft that is designed to operate in direct support of ground forces such as infantry, tanks and other fighting vehicles. Their use is therefore tactical rather than strategic, operating at the front of the battle rather than against targets deeper . The company's Avionic Systems business unit will supply the equipment to BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. Customer Support & Solutions of Warton, U.K., prime contractor and aircraft platform integrator for the Tornado Advanced Radar/Map Display Information System, or TARDIS TARDIS Time And Relative Dimension In Space (Doctor Who TV series) TARDIS Time and Relative Dimensions . The award follows the U.K. Defense Logistics Organization's recent award of a Tornado GR4 cockpit upgrade contract, valued at about $150 million, to Customer Support & Solutions. Rochester-based Avionic Systems will develop the system's Radar Map Display Processor at its facility in Edinburgh, U.K. The processor's display head is designed around a 12.8-inch active-matrix liquid-crystal display that is produced using patented fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. capabilities developed by Avionic Systems. TARDIS will replace obsolete radar projected map display The displayed image of a map or chart projected through an optical or electro-optical system onto a viewing surface. and digital scan converter systems currently used in the Tornado's rear cockpit. "The system provides the latest in radar processing, graphics, and map generation software and represents a significant technological advance for the Royal Air Force Tornado fleet," said Sue Wood, managing director of BAE Systems Avionic Systems. "Trials carried out to date on prototype units have been very well received by the RAF user community." Another major element of TARDIS, the Radar Video Processor, is being supplied by BAE Systems' Sensor Systems Division, based in Edinburgh. As TARDIS prime contractor, BAE Systems Customer Support & Solutions will complete system development, conduct flight trials, and modify the 140-strong GR4 fleet to receive the new displays. Installations will begin this summer to meet an aircraft in-service date of August 2006. BAE Systems is an international company engaged in the development, delivery, and support of advanced defense and aerospace systems in the air, on land, at sea, and in space. BAE Systems Platform Solutions Sector provides a wide range of products and capabilities that include fly-by-wire flight controls, digital autopilots and flight directors, full-authority digital engine controls, inertial sensors and navigation guidance systems, displays, integrated avionics, power management systems, unmanned aerial vehicle A powered, aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely, can be expendable or recoverable, and can carry a lethal or nonlethal payload. systems, low-visibility precision landing systems, air traffic management systems, launch-vehicle controls, and hybrid electric vehicle A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a vehicle which combines a conventional propulsion system with an on-board rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) to achieve better fuel economy than a conventional vehicle without being hampered by range from a charging unit like an drive systems. BAE Systems, innovating for a safer world. |
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