Real-Time Industry Expert Doug Locke Joins FSMLabs Experts Network; Locke Brings Decades-Long Avionics, Communications, Control, Standards and Methodology Background to Role of Consulting Engineer.SOCORRO, N.M. -- FSMLabs (http://www.fsmlabs.com), a mission-critical software company, announced that industry expert and long-time veteran Dr. C. Douglass Locke's consulting firm would join FSMLabs network of expert consultants and integrators with Dr. Locke taking the lead role of consulting engineer. Dr. Locke serves to accelerate the growth of FSMLabs' aerospace and defense (A&D) market, an area already strategic to FSMLabs' embedded real-time business. Today, FSMLabs serves customers building A&D applications as diverse as flight and weapons simulation, jet engine testing, robotics and software-defined radios at contractors and research labs that include Harris, Lockheed Martin, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , Pratt & Whitney, and Sandia National Labs. These and other exacting developers and deployers of real-time/embedded applications look to FSMLabs for reliability, responsiveness and rapid development using RTLinuxPro and RTCoreBSD. Having Dr. Locke on the FSMLabs team will further extend the company's ability to reach A&D customers with product, services and training offerings. "Doug brings both engineering and organizational expertise at a very high level," noted Victor Yodaiken, 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 FSMLabs. "Both his extensive real-time architecture and development engineering background and his ongoing consulting practice broaden and deepen our ability to address the requirements of customers building demanding aerospace and communications applications." Joining the team at FSMLabs gives Dr. Locke's consulting practice an additional base of solid real-time products -- RTLinuxPro and RTCoreBSD, with comprehensive COTS hardware support. "More than in any other industry segment, delivering hard real-time responsiveness and finely tuned performance, on time and within budget, requires a mix of off-the-shelf technology and expert architecture, integration, support, and planning," commented Locke. "FSMLabs products provide a unique combination of hard real-time, wide hardware support, and enterprise-level software and software development environments that can accelerate many critical projects." About Doug Locke Dr. Locke, president of his real-time systems architecture and design consulting company Locke Consulting, LLC (http://www.douglocke.com), has held high-level positions at Lockheed Martin and TimeSys Corp. Dr. Locke previously served as vice president of technology at TimeSys, a producer of Embedded Linux distributions and software development tools. Earlier, Dr. Locke was the chief scientist at the Lockheed Martin Systems Solutions organization; prior to that role, he was the chief scientist of Lockheed Martin's Software & Systems Resource Center, working with a wide range of applications including space (both ground based and flight), aircraft, shipboard, submarine, command & control, and information systems, such as SBIRS SBIRS Space-Based Infrared System SBIRS Space Based Infra-Red Surveillance , SBIS SBIS Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde SBIS Sustainable Building Information System SBIS Sustaining-Base Information Services SBIS Sustaining Base Information System SBIS Swath Bathymetric and Imaging System , Air Traffic Control, GPS, various avionics systems, CCTT CCTT Close Combat Tactical Trainer (US Army) CCTT Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (Ottawa, ON, Canada) CCTT Covert Channel Tunneling Tool CCTT Career Connection to Teaching with Technology , LAMPS, and AWACS AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) Mobile, long-range radar surveillance-and-control centre for air defense. Used by the U.S. Air Force since 1977, AWACS is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft, with its main radar antenna affixed to a rotating dome. . About FSMLabs FSMLabs provides hard real-time mission-critical solutions designed for reliability and simplicity of operation. FSMLabs was founded in 1998 and is privately held, with headquarters in New Mexico and sales and engineering staff world-wide. FSMLabs products include RTLinux, RTCoreBSD, Lnet real-time networking, PSDD protected memory real-time, VxIT legacy emulation, Carrier Grade Linux A specification that defines an industrial strength operating system environment using Linux. Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) covers hardware, availability, clustering, security, serviceability and performance. , RTCore Eclipse IDE and ControlsKit XML/RPC interface builder. For more information, visit www.fsmlabs.com or e-mail sales@fsmlabs.com. 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