TRW Completes First Development Milestone for Joint Simulation System.

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1998--TRW (NYSE: TRW) has completed the first technology development milestone for the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS), demonstrating a successful approach to collaborative system development across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

JSIMS is being developed to support cost-effective warfighter training, education, and mission rehearsal for each service, the joint community, and federal agencies. The system will enable realistic training in doctrine, strategy, and planning across the full range of military operations.

Two major objectives were met in this technical validation milestone, referred to as Build 0: creating a rudimentary core software infrastructure and other software elements to test architectural concepts; and exercising the enterprise approach to the development process in preparation for increasingly complex system builds in the future.

"With this milestone, we have validated not only the technology, but also our enterprise approach to development, involving numerous services, agencies, and contractors," said CAPT Drew W. Beasley, U.S. Navy, JSIMS program manager for the DoD. "In addition, an enterprise-wide Acquisition Program Baseline was recently completed, which sets a common schedule and performance criteria across the seven partner programs. These achievements are significant steps toward streamlining the manner in which joint and service needs will be met in the future." The military services and several federal agencies are providing components to operate within the JSIMS architecture. These partner programs are: JSIMS Maritime, JSIMS Signal Intelligence Simulation, National Air and Space Warfare Model, National Simulation, Warfighters' Simulation 2000, and Warfighters' Simulation Intelligence Module. The JSIMS core infrastructure will allow these components at various locations to access the same operational scenario elements and interface with actual warfighting systems, improving the quality and reducing the set-up time for joint training.

"The completion of Build 0 is the first step in a new way of doing things," said John Irby, TRW program manager for JSIMS. "This level of teamwork, both between industry and the government and among the contractors, will result in a better product at a lower overall cost."

Altogether, more than 63,000 lines of software code in C++(TM), Ada 95, and Java(TM) were written during Build 0. Completed are a prototype core infrastructure, selected support tools, a preliminary repository system for those tools, and approximately 20 simulated mission space objects - such as airframes, landing craft, tanks, bridges, air defense systems, missiles, and ships. JSIMS is expected to grow to approximately one million lines of code and several hundred mission space objects by initial operating capability in April 2001.

The Build 0 achievement was preceded by completion of initial system specification in December, containing approximately 900 requirements, such as representing multiple theaters and missions simultaneously and modeling all phases of military operations - mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, and redeployment. This involved distilling almost 8,000 separate requirements from the services and agencies.

TRW was awarded a seven-year $69.2 million contract for JSIMS by Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., in December 1996. As prime contractor, TRW provides systems integration and development, test and site installation, and support. TRW's partner, San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp., provides systems engineering support, software development, integration and test, as well as modeling and simulation technology. Other teammates include: SPARTA Inc., Laguna Hills, Calif., for security engineering; AEgis Research, Huntsville, Ala., for engineering and integration; Aurora Simulation Inc., Reston, Va., for common resource repository development; MRJ, Fairfax, Va., for intelligence training simulation; and MATCOM 2, Alexandria, Va., for joint training and doctrine development subject matter expertise.

TRW Inc. provides advanced technology products and services for the automotive, space and defense, and information technology markets worldwide. The company's sales in 1997 were approximately $12 billion (including the recent BDM acquisition). The company's news releases are available through TRW's corporate web site (http://www.trw.com/).

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