Motorola Computer Group Selected to Help Develop Real-time Department of Defense Infrastructure.

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1999--

Reinforcing its position as one of the world's leading suppliers of embedded computing platforms, Motorola Computer Group (MCG) Wednesday announced its participation in a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to enhance the effectiveness of systems supporting real-time command and control missions.

The Air Force Executive Agent for DII COE Real-Time Extensions, Lt. Col. Lucie Robillard, at Hanscom AFB MA, chose MCG as one of three funding hardware partners for the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE) for Real-Time because of the company's experience in VME single-board computing platforms.

These computing platforms include MCG's open-architecture, high-performing MVME3604--one of the fastest VME single-board computing platforms available today.

The MVME3604 will help enable DII COE--developed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and their contractor (Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL))--to improve interoperability for such mission-critical systems as the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), Joint Tactical Terminal/Common Integrated Broadcast Service-Modules (JTT/CIBS-M), Region/Sector Air Operations Center (R/SAOC), as well as various systems from the Navy, Army and Signals Intelligence community.

Real-time extensions to the existing basic DII COE infrastructure will enhance command and control system interoperability--for sensors and weapons platforms, which require strict adherence to deadlines.

According to Lt. Col. Lucie Robillard, MCG and two other embedded computing platform companies will provide boards to DISA, JPL, and Boeing--the lead contractor of the DII COE for Real-Time integrated product team--to ensure in part that the infrastructure can operate on boards from multiple vendors.

"MCG's experience in the VME market makes it one of several choices to participate in the development of the DII COE for Real-Time infrastructure. We expect this partnership with MCG to help DISA, JPL, and Boeing deliver an infrastructure that will improve interoperability and enable the industry's most reliable and highest performing real-time systems."

Bob Lyon, vice president and director of the Cross Industry Business Unit, Motorola Computer Group, states that MCG is pleased to be playing such a critical role in testing the DII COE for Real-Time infrastructure.

"The military/aerospace market continues to be an essential strategic market for MCG. MCG's open-architecture approach enables our products to support a variety of operating systems, including the Lynx OS real-time operating system, upon which DII COE for Real-Time will be based in its initial configuration."

Motorola's unique method of placing the PowerPC microprocessor and memory on an independent mezzanine board enables higher performance upgrades in the future and frees up valuable space on the base board for unsurpassed I/O capabilities. MVME3604 features include fast SCSI, 10/100 Ethernet, graphics, serial I/O, floppy disks, mouse, keyboard and printer connectivity.

The MVME3604 pushes performance and functionality threshold on VME, utilizing Motorola's PowerPC 604 32-bit microprocessor up to 400 MHz, the peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus for the one-board peripherals, processor/memory to PCI bus bridge and a VME interface.

In addition to supporting LynxOS, the MVME3600 supports other operating systems, a complete range of real-time operating systems and kernels, including MCG's AIX, Integrated Systems Inc.'s pSOSystem, Microware Systems Corp.'s OS-9/OS-9000, Microtec's VRTX32 and Wind River System's VXWorks.

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