Smiths Detection Pass Final Design Review for UK MOD MCAD.Business Editors FARNBOROUGH, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002 Smiths Detection are pleased to announce that on 17 Jul 2002 Smiths Detection in Watford, UK (formerly Graseby Dynamics Ltd) passed the scheduled Final Design Review (FDR) for the UK MOD's MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design (manportable chemical agent detector) programme. This clears the MCAD to go into volume production and, pending final acceptance tests on production units, into service with the UK Ministry of Defence. The FDR was carried out by the UK MOD's Defence Procurement Agency The Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), was an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the acquisition of materiel, equipment and services, for the British armed forces. NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. IPT IPT - IP Telephony covering technical, ILS ILS In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Israeli Shekel. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. , scientific and commercial aspects. Valued in excess of 20M Pounds Sterling MCAD contract was awarded following an international competitive tender in Jan 2000. About the manportable chemical agent detector (MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) A package of database drivers from Microsoft for connecting client PCs to the databases in servers. MDAC is periodically updated to reflect changes in ADO, OLE DB and ODBC and is a required installation in developers' and many ) MCAD is the second tier of the UK's new two tier CW detection policy. The first tier is provided by the Lightweight Chemical Agent Detector (LCAD LCAD Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) LCAD Lincoln Council on Alcoholism and Drugs, Inc. (Lincoln, Nebraska) ) which is also being developed and manufactured by Smiths Detection Watford. MCAD is a detector that rapidly identifies a complete range of CW agents and certain toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) down to very low levels. MCAD is designed to carry out atmospheric monitoring post attack and record and transfer data to battlefield management systems. MCAD will be issued on a scale of one per platoon sized unit across the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force to certain other units and facilities. MCAD uses Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) technology, which has been found to be a very effective detection technology for field detection of CW agents. Dstl Porton Down has been closely involved in the technology assessment phase of the MCAD. About Smiths Smiths Detection is a newly formed division of Smiths Aerospace. The recently formed division includes Graseby, with its chemical and biological warfare agent detection capability, Barringer Instruments (now Smiths Detection Warren) with their expertise in trace explosive and narcotics detection and Environmental Technologies Group (Now Smiths Detection Edgewood) with their expertise in artillery meteorology and biological warfare agent detection. Smiths Aerospace is the leading transatlantic aerospace equipment company, with half its 12,000 staff and $2 billion revenues in North America. Smiths Aerospace, a part of Smiths Group plc, holds key positions in the supply chains of all major military and civil aircraft and engine manufacturers and are world-leaders in electronic systems, actuation systems, precision components and detection systems. |
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