Aegis Weapon System Tested During International Multiple Ship Demonstration

March 11, 2010 by Jeffrey Bradford · Comment
Filed under: Lockheed Martin, Syndicated Industry News 
Aegis Weapon System Tested During International Multiple Ship Demonstration
March 11, 2010 9:09:00 AM

MOORESTOWN, N.J., -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), in support of the U.S. Navy, successfully completed Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) for Aegis Combat Systems installed aboard U.S. and Spanish navy ships. The last time these two nations participated in a combined CSSQT was in 2007.

The latest event was conducted at sea last week in the vicinity of Pt. Mugu, CA and involved U.S. Navy destroyers USS Dewey (DDG 105) and USS Wayne E Meyer (DDG 108) along with the Spanish Navy frigate Alvaro de Bazan (F-101).

During the CSSQT, the ships' Aegis Combat Systems were evaluated for combat-readiness through comprehensive surface, subsurface and anti-air warfare exercises, including manned raids and electronic attack scenarios, as well as thorough testing of the systems' tactical data link and air defense capabilities.

"In addition to unmatched capabilities against all threats at sea, these qualification trials emphasize the global interoperability Aegis provides the U.S. Navy and its allies," said Jeff Bantle, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors in Moorestown, N.J. "The contributions of our industry partners Navantia, Indra, RYMSA, Sainsel and other Spanish companies have been critical factors in the success of the Spanish F-100 frigate program, as well as in the support of the international fleet of Aegis-equipped ships."

The Aegis Weapon System includes the SPY-1 radar, the Navy's most advanced radar system. When paired with the MK 41 Vertical Launching System, it is capable of delivering missiles for every mission and threat environment in naval warfare. The Aegis Weapon System is currently deployed on more than 90 ships around the globe with at least 14 more ships planned. In addition to the U.S., Aegis is the weapon system of choice for Australia, Japan, Korea, Norway, and Spain.

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EchoStorm Releases Next Generation Software for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance — Press Release

February 8, 2010 by Matthew Potter · Comment
Filed under: Business Line, Companies, Events, ISR, IT, Press Releases, S&T, development program 

EchoStorm Releases Next Generation Software for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

adLib Gives High and Low Bandwidth Users Unparalleled Access to Full-Motion Video and Data

Suffolk, VA – EchoStorm Worldwide, the global leader in video and data management technology, today announced the release of its latest product version, adLib 3.6, the company’s pioneering video and data management software for improved intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).

The new version boasts unmatched capabilities for capturing, indexing, archiving, searching, and disseminating full-motion video (FMV) and associated data. The software can process a range of data formats to give low bandwidth users access to low-fidelity, situational awareness FMV and high bandwidth users access to high-fidelity, exploitation FMV.

“adLib supports both situational awareness and exploitation users better than any other ISR software in the marketplace,” said David Barton, President and Chief Technical Officer at EchoStorm. “By giving a wider range of users access to high impact, near real-time ISR, it becomes an indispensable force multiplier in the national defense and intelligence communities.”

adLib’s new features include the following:

§ Federation: Enabling access to content within the enterprise and across enterprise borders.

§ Open standards (WS-I) compliant Web service interfaces allowing for third-party integration.

§ Enhanced support for Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB) standards including:

o Standard 0601.3 UAS Datalink Local Metadata Set.

o Standard 0604 Time

o EG 0104.5 Predator UAV Basic Universal Metadata Set.

§ New UAV platform supported:

o Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout support.

§ Chat ingestion: Allowing one or more chat rooms to be captured, indexed, searched, and related to FMV content. Both IRC and XMPP are supported.

§ New hardware options to greatly reduce power, space, and cooling requirements (including rugged configurations).

§ New Web-based mapping capability that supports multiple user selectable layers which can be configured to point at any WMS compliant server, including Pixia’s nuiGeoServer.

§ Support for FMV based mosaic imagery from EchoStorm’s adLib Image Processing Engine (aIPE) product.

adLib’s upgrades include:

§ Improved CDF support.

§ Improved geo-search accuracy.

§ Enhanced clip cart functionality allowing a number of clips to be selected and downloaded as a single clip.

§ Improved metadata quality and performance of data manipulation.

About EchoStorm

EchoStorm Worldwide LLC is the global leader in video and data management technology. Its products provide defense, intelligence, and supporting agencies with a single, aggregated point of access to all their full-motion video (FMV) and geospatial information. With this access – and the ability to interface with most standards-based systems – EchoStorm technology has become a force multiplier while increasing the reach of analysts and forward-deployed operators to high-impact, near real-time Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) data.

EchoStorm is headquartered in Suffolk, Va., and it is a subsidiary of Earl Industries LLC.

For more information about EchoStorm Worldwide LLC, visit www.echostorm.net.

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