FED Corp. teams with leading system integrators to win air force avionics contract.HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 24, 1996-- FED Corporation teamed with Honeywell, Harris, and Astronautics Corporation of America Astronautics Corporation of America is a privately owned corporation headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA). Astronautics was established in 1959 and is a major supplier of avionics equipment to airlines, Boeing, Airbus, the U.S. for the successful pursuit of an Air Force Wright Laboratory R&D contract to develop field emitter displays for military aircraft. Wright Laboratory's Dr. Darrell Hopper and Captain Dan Monticello led the development of this Air Force program. It represents the first Air Force funded program targeted at utilizing field emitter display technology in military cockpits. "The formation of this team represents significant progress in our business development activity," said Susan Jones, Executive Vice President of FED Corporation. "To have three leading military systems integrators and potential customers participate in our product development activity supports our custom market driven corporate vision." The heart of the military display is FED Corporation's recently developed field emission display (hardware) field emission display - (FED) A type of flat panel display in which field emitting cathodes bombard a phosphor coating causing it to emit light. A field emission display is similar to a cathode ray tube but only a few millimeters thick. (FED), essentially a flat CRT A TV picture tube (CRT) that has a flatter viewing surface than the traditional rounder tube. Up to 30% more glass is used to make the screen flatter. Also known as a "flat screen," "flat face CRT" or "flat square tube (FST)", the flat CRT provides less distortion at the edges and is the in which the three color electron guns are replaced with an array of emitters each responsible for a single pixel on the screen. FED technology offers the avionics systems providers significantly easier integration issues compared with AMLCDs. The ability of field emitter displays to operate over wide temperature ranges results in less sensitivity to thermal issues of the emitter display. This translates into lower system design cost and manufacturing cost for integrators like Honeywell, Harris, and Astronautics astronautics: see space science. Astronautics Flash Gordon space-traveling hero. [Am. Comics and Cin.: Halliwell] From the Earth to the Moon . FED technology offers the promise of improved performance for the war fighter at lower system cost to the taxpayer. FED Corporation is emerging as the leading supplier of field emitter displays designed specifically to meet rugged applications. These include military and commercial avionics, industrial instrumentation, medical instrumentation, automotive, and portable applications. In 1994, FED Corporation established the first dedicated U.S. fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. facility for field emitter displays at its Class 10 manufacturing headquarters in New York's Hudson Valley Research Park. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is currently developing its proprietary field emitter display technology targeted at ASHIC (application specific high information content) display markets for industrial OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and military customers. Honeywell Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HON) Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) Astronautics Corporation of America and FED Corporation are privately owned. CONTACT: Fed Corp., Hopewell Junction Roger K. Ellis, 914/892-1900 (voice) 914/892-1901 (FAX) email: fedcorp@aol.com |
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