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EADS equips the A400M Military Airbus with digital map generators

* DMGS for more than 180 transport aircraft
* Market leader in map systems and mission computers

Paris/Friedrichshafen, 13 June 2005

EADS Defence Electronics has been awarded a contract by Airbus Military S.L. in Toulouse to equip the A400M military transport aircraft with the Digital Map Generator System (DMGS). As the Company announced during Paris Air Show, they have been commissioned to supply the system for all the 188 A400M transport aircraft for which a firm order has been placed by the nations involved in this programme. Moreover, all those aircraft subsequently sold internationally are also to be equipped with the DMGS.

The Digital Map Generator System is part of a product family of navigation and tactical information systems, which EADS Defence Electronics developed for many different types of aircraft. It allows coloured topographic maps to be generated and images specific to the mission to be superimposed over them in real time. This gives the pilots of helicopters and transport aircraft an instrument with which they can react quickly and precisely during operations. EADS Defence Electronics is already involved in the A400M programme with the Mission Management Computer (MMC) and the Defensive Aid Computer (DAC). The EADS Defence Electronics A400M computer family is based on the new M²AC concept (Modular Mission Avionics Computer), which can be used in different types of aircraft. M²AC has a versatile, adaptable, modular system architecture, which is based on open industrial standards and is therefore easy to configure.

“EADS Defence Electronics has many years of product and technology experience with Airborne Digital Map Generator systems. This can be seen, for example, by our sales of the EuroGrid mission system for the NH90 and Tiger helicopter as well as our map systems for the Eurofighter and the Tornado”, explained Bernhard Gerwert, Head of the EADS Defence Electronics Business Unit. “Our position as market leader in map systems and tactical mission computers for military aircraft and helicopters in Europe was once more consolidated by the order for the A400M.”

EADS Defence Electronics is the Group´s Sensors, Avionics and Electronic Warfare House and is an integrated part of the EADS Defence and Security Systems Division (DS). DS, with revenues of about € 5.4 billion in 2004 and roughly 24,000 employees across ten nations, forms the defence pole within EADS. It offers integrated systems solutions to the new challenges confronting armed forces and homeland security units. It is active in the areas of military aircraft, missile systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems with manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), battlefield management systems, defence electronics, sensors and avionics, and related services.

EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2004, EADS generated revenues of € 31.8 billion and employed a workforce of about 110,000.

Contact
Lothar Belz
EADS Defence Electronics
Ulm
Germany
Tel.: +49 (731) 392-3681
mailto: lothar.belz@eads.com