GE To Supply General Dynamics UK With Subsystems For Scout SV Ground-Based ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisit...
June 12 2012 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it had secured an order for
£3.25 million (~$5 million) from General Dynamics UK for subsystems
required for the Demonstration Phase for the Scout Specialist
Vehicle family of platforms for the British Army for which General
Dynamics UK is currently on contract.
The Scout SV family of platforms will deliver a step change in
ground-based ISTAR capability. It is a purpose designed
ground-based intelligence platform with an array of high
performance sensors, coupled with the latest (20 Gbits/second)
Gigabit Ethernet intelligent open architecture. This will enable it
to capture, analyze, manipulate and store over 6 TeraBytes of
intelligence data, including a vast array of still and moving
images, and to share this intelligence in real-, or very near real,
time, depending on requirement. Thanks to this capability, Scout
SV’s crew will be able to provide commanders with better
decision-making support material than that currently available only
from airborne ISTAR platforms or UAVs. Data will be readily passed
to other secure C4I systems, including those of US and other NATO
allies.
The GE subsystems comprise rugged processors derived from GE’s
MAGIC1 and SBC624 Single Board Computer and rugged Ethernet
switches derived from GE’s GBX460. They will provide information
processing capability for Scout SV, manage on-vehicle networks,
control data storage and drive the vehicle’s displays. GE has
provided COTS-equivalent solutions to enable General Dynamics UK to
begin software development immediately.
“This order from General Dynamics UK is a testimony to the
strength of our commitment to, and operation in, the UK,” said Al
DiLibero, President, Military & Aerospace Embedded Computing,
GE Intelligent Platforms. “Our local presence meant that we were
ideally placed to provide appropriate responsiveness to General
Dynamics UK’s requirements, enabling us to design and propose an
advanced, high performance solution that met all of General
Dynamics UK’s criteria.”
The order was won after a rigorous audit by General Dynamics UK
of GE Intelligent Platforms’ business processes, procedures and
practices including product quality assurance, manufacturing
management and supply chain management. GE’s financial strength,
its substantial presence in the UK, and its experience in long term
support of multi-year program deployments, together with GE’s
ability to provide the best technical solution that responded
precisely to General Dynamics UK’s requirements, were also factors
in General Dynamics UK’s decision.
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