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Smiths Aerospace receives C-130AMP avionics follow-on order valued near $8M5 March 2002The heart of the avionics upgrade program is the Mission Display Processor, which promotes open avionics architecture with a partitioned software operating system. All primary flight display and mission software is contained within the Mission Display Processor (MDP). The partitioned operating system enables software applications from multiple suppliers to be hosted on a single processor module. Software from ten suppliers will be integrated and hosted together in the Smiths Aerospace Mission Display Processor. Each C-130 AMP aircraft will contain two MDPs in order to provide redundant operation with gun-ship models containing up to four. In addition to the MDP, Smiths Aerospace will supply the following systems, with the entire program value over $250 million:
Mission Display Processor including Digital Map - Electrical Power Generation Control & Conversion including the Generator Control Unit, Bus Switch Unit and Regulated/Transformer Rectifier Unit (R/TRU). The C-130AMP currently is in a 3-year development program with the first flight scheduled for December 2004. Boeing will perform modifications for the approximately 500 aircraft in the U.S. Air Force service at the Boeing Aerospace Support Center in San Antonio, Texas. The Air Force will also perform modifications at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Georgia and Ogden Air Logistics Center in Utah. Modification installations will begin in 2004 and continue through 2014 and will reach a rate of about 70 per year at peak production. Smiths Aerospace is the leading transatlantic aerospace equipment company, with half its 12,000 staff and $2 billion revenues in North America. Smiths Aerospace holds key positions in the supply chains of all major military and civil aircraft and engine manufacturers and is a world-leader in electronic systems, actuation systems, precision components and detection & protection systems. |
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The heart of the avionics upgrade program is the Mission Display Processor, which promotes open avionics architecture with a partitioned software operating system. All primary flight display and mission software is contained within the Mission Display Processor (MDP). The partitioned operating system enables software applications from multiple suppliers to be hosted on a single processor module. Software from ten suppliers will be integrated and hosted together in the Smiths Aerospace Mission Display Processor. Each C-130 AMP aircraft will contain two MDPs in order to provide redundant operation with gun-ship models containing up to four.
In addition to the MDP, Smiths Aerospace will supply the following systems, with the entire program value over $250 million:
Flight Management System including the Communications Management Unit and the Terrain Awareness Warning System
Multi-Function Control Displays
Integrated Standby Instrument System
Flight Data Recorder/Cockpit Voice Recorder
Aircraft Interface Unit
Mission Display Processor including Digital Map
- Electrical Power Generation Control & Conversion including the Generator Control Unit, Bus Switch Unit and Regulated/Transformer Rectifier Unit (R/TRU).
The C-130AMP currently is in a 3-year development program with the first flight scheduled for December 2004. Boeing will perform modifications for the approximately 500 aircraft in the U.S. Air Force service at the Boeing Aerospace Support Center in San Antonio, Texas. The Air Force will also perform modifications at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Georgia and Ogden Air Logistics Center in Utah. Modification installations will begin in 2004 and continue through 2014 and will reach a rate of about 70 per year at peak production.
Smiths Aerospace is the leading transatlantic aerospace equipment company, with half its 12,000 staff and $2 billion revenues in North America. Smiths Aerospace holds key positions in the supply chains of all major military and civil aircraft and engine manufacturers and is a world-leader in electronic systems, actuation systems, precision components and detection & protection systems.
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