General Dynamics Awarded $3.2 Million Contract to Provide Data Storage System for F/A-18 Super Hornets
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – General Dynamics Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a $3.2 million dollar contract by the Raytheon Electronic Systems Company to design and develop the Data Storage System for the Active Electronic Scanned Array fire-control radar for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet aircraft, and for other radar system improvement programs.
The General Dynamics Data Storage System (DSS) is a compact, disk-based data translator, storage and retrieval system that translates and stores flight test data. The DSS is one configuration of the Tactical Disk Recording System (TDRS), a family of affordable, scalable and flexible open systems architecture storage solutions developed by General Dynamics for use in harsh military environments such as that experienced by the F-18E/F. Raytheon selected the DSS after a competition with several solid-state data recorders.
Current generation TDRS products are already being flown in the F-14, the F-16 and in pods, demonstrating that properly packaged disk drives can meet severe environmental conditions, including fast roll-rate, high g-forces and extreme vibration. General Dynamics disk drives are also being used in the U.S. Army’s M1A2 and the French LeClerc main battle tanks.
Disk-based storage systems offer dramatic cost-performance advantages over solid-state storage while fully meeting program performance and environmental needs. The DSS is the first system to use the Ciprico [NASDAQ: CPCI] FibreSTORETM RAID Controller, which was ruggedized by General Dynamics for the Tactical Disk Recording System.
General Dynamics Information Systems, based in Bloomington, Minn., provides information processing systems and information management services for the U.S. Department of Defense and a number of allied nations.
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs approximately 46,000 people and anticipates 2001 sales of approximately $11.5 billion. The company has leading market positions in business aviation, information systems, shipbuilding and marine systems, and land and amphibious combat systems.
Ciprico Inc. designs, manufactures and markets high-performance, direct-attached and networked storage solutions, including intelligent hardware, software and professional services. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for visual computing applications ranging from high-speed data capture, through processing and analysis, to real-time playback at sustained performance levels. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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General Dynamics Corporation (ticker: GD, exchange: NYSE)
News Release - Thursday, May 24, 2001
Press Contact: (952) 921-6072
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