Primagraphics Wins US$300k General Dynamics Contract for CP-140 Aurora Aircraft Upgrade.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2004 Primagraphics (www.primagraphics.com), the command & control, video and graphics specialist, has been awarded a US$300,000 contract by General Dynamics General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2006 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world[1]. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. Canada (www.gdcanada.com) to supply its Cobra quad video windows solution for use on board the CP-140 Aurora The Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is a Canadian Forces Air Command (AIRCOM) maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). The aircraft is based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion airframe, but mounts the more advanced electronics suite of the S-3 Viking. Aurora is the Greek goddess who restored Orion's eyesight. , Canada's long-range maritime patrol Maritime patrol is the task of monitoring areas of water. Generally conducted by military and law enforcement agencies, maritime patrol is usually aimed at identifying human activities. aircraft. The CP-140 Aurora aircraft patrol the world's longest coastline and can fly over 9,000km without refueling. Under a contract from Canada's Department of National Defence, GD Canada is responsible for the supply and integration of a new data management system on board the CP-140 Aurora - part of the ongoing Aurora Incremental Modernization Project (AIMP AIMP Always In My Prayers AIMP Army Intelligence Master Plan AIMP Ab Initio Model Potential AIMP Anchored Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (satellites) AIMP Aurora Incremental Modernization Project (Canada) ). Engineers with GD Canada, based in Ottawa, Canada, needed a video windowing For Northcoast Where we call someone over and then roll our window up on them. Bassline preference. For Example: "Hey, Andi." *insert window being rolled up* "HAHAHA. solution which could handle the multiple video signals from optical and infrared sensors received at each display console on the aircraft. The system required also needed to switch and scale the signals for display in windows with a high-resolution graphics overlay. GD Canada chose Primagraphics' commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. form-factor Cobra video windows card as its video scaling and graphics overlay capabilities provided an excellent fit for the complex display requirements of CP-140 upgrade program. Cobra accepts RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). , TV and special format interlaced video signals, and uses four independent video scalers to support a multi video display. David Johnson, product manager at Primagraphics, said: "We are delighted to be working with General Dynamics Canada on such a prestigious program. Cobra is our latest high-performance video windowing product and provides an excellent platform for sensor-rich surveillance and reconnaissance applications due to its quad window capability and the separate graphics channel." Cobra is designed for sophisticated display applications where there is a requirement for multiple video and graphics signals to be displayed simultaneously, such as in command and control systems, training and simulation, and a wide range of surveillance, reconnaissance and homeland security applications. Contact Primagraphics in North America by phone on 434 951 9460, by post to 1000 Research Park Blvd., Suite 106, Charlottesville, VA 22911, USA, or by email to: sales@primagraphics.com. |
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