EADS signs Series Contract for Air Defence Management System SAMOC
Ulm, Germany, 01 March 2004
EADS Defence and Communications Systems has signed a contract with the German Procurement Agency (BWB) to begin the series production of the Surface-to-Air Missile Operations Centre (SAMOC) for the German Air Force.
EADS announced on Tuesday that the contract is worth about €21 million. EADS will provide the German Air Force with the most state-of-the-art air defence management system and will therefore set a new standard for air defence. SAMOC, which was developed for the German Air Force, has already proven its network-enabled operations capabilities in numerous demonstrations for the German Air Force and for armed forces of a number of potential other customers.
“The German Armed Forces and EADS have taken a giant step towards advanced air defence systems and have seen the SAMOC system achieve legacy status across our export regions. It is a very important signal of customer confidence in our capabilities as a large systems integrator,” explained Stefan Zoller, CEO of Defence and Communication Systems.
SAMOC provides planning, tasking and evaluating for military operations and can be linked up with tactical data systems for real-time results. It can also rank data into potential threat categories, while still being able to distinguish between faulty data and high-quality results. It can also provide and distribute detailed information to different decision making sources in real-time, ensuring fast and accurate data for complete and quick decisions. The scope and timeline of the series production begins early this year with an expected conclusion at the end of 2007.
This contract is a strategic move towards a state-of-the-art, next generation air defence system and Germany’s major role in network-enabled operations. Based on these favourable conditions, EADS is providing integrated systems solutions not only for the UK Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) program but also for other countries with air defence systems needs.
About EADS Defence and Communications Systems (DCS)
EADS Defence and Communications Systems (DCS) is part of the Defence and Security Systems division of EADS. DCS has been created in order to better respond to the new evolution of the defence markets which are more focused on global solutions and integrated systems. For this purpose, DCS regroups several defence activities with the telecommunications activities of EADS. Its field of competence encompasses manned and unmanned systems such as UAVs, manned mission aircraft, Command, Control, Communication Information systems (C3I), Air and Naval Defence, Public Safety including Homeland Security and Communication and Information Network. DCS as the EADS Systems House implements advanced defence concepts, simulation and experimentation tools like NETCOS.
About EADS Defence and Security Systems
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The EADS Group includes Airbus and Eurocopter, is prime contractor for the Ariane launcher, develops the A400M and is the largest industrial partner for Galileo.
EADS Defence and Security Systems, with revenues of over € 5 billion in 2003 and roughly 24,000 employees across nine nations, forms the defence pole within EADS. It offers integrated solutions to the new challenges confronting armed and security forces. It is active in the areas of military aircraft, missiles, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), defence electronics, sensors and avionics, command, control and communications systems, and services. In order to optimise the decision-making chain from sensor to effector within a “System of Systems”, EADS brings together state-of-the-art information and network technologies and the extensive competence of an experienced supplier of complex defence systems.
Your contact:
Stephanie Chalmers
Ulm
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 731-392-7488
mailto: stephanie.chalmers@sysde.eads.net
Claire Allanche
Bois d’ Arcy
France
Tel.: +33 (0) 1 34 60 77 45
mailto: claire.allanche@eads-telecom.com
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