Rockwell Collins selected by U.S. Army for MCAP III program
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (August 05, 2004) - Rockwell Collins, along with AAI and Whitney, Bradley & Brown (WBB), was recently awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Aviation
Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) for the Manned/Unmanned Common Architecture Program Phase III (MCAP III).
“The Army is breaking new ground with programs that reduce logistical demands,” said Woody Hogle, vice president and general
manager of Integrated Systems for Rockwell Collins Government Systems. “Rockwell Collins is assisting the Army to achieve
its vision of interoperability and commonality by developing and implementing open architecture mission processing systems
for ground vehicles, helicopters and UAVs.
“MCAP III will develop and demonstrate an avionics architecture for Army unmanned aircraft that is common to mission processing
systems currently under development for Army Helicopters and Future Combat System (FCS) Ground Vehicles. Through MCAP III
and other programs Rockwell Collins is helping to speed the effort of cascading equipment and operations to transform Army
aviation.”
Under this contract Rockwell Collins will perform systems engineering activities to define a common computing and network
architecture with application to Army Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) including the Shadow 200, Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft
(UCAR), A-160 Hummingbird and Fire Scout. As part of the agreement, Rockwell Collins will deliver mission processor prototypes
and perform a laboratory demonstration on the Shadow 200 platform of several applications including Live HDTV Video Transmission,
'See-and-Avoid' autonomous operation, Automatic Target Cueing, Backup Automatic Target Recognition and Passive Target Ranging.
By taking the personal computer industry’s open systems architecture approach and applying it to avionics and communications
products, Rockwell Collins is shifting the paradigm for providing new avionics and communications technologies to the military
and aerospace industry. Examples of Rockwell Collins open architecture solutions include the U.S. Army Special Operations
Forces’ MH-47, MH-60 and A/MH-6 helicopter fleets, the U.S. Air Force C/KC-135 Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) program,
the U.S. Navy’s E-6B, as well as the Army’s Future Combat System (FCS).
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) is a leader in the design, production and support of communications and aviation electronics
solutions for government and commercial customers worldwide. Additional company information is available at www.rockwellcollins.com.
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