ORAC
9th Jul 2011, 06:40
I wonder if they've got Angry Birds installed.....
Ares: F-15C Combines AESA and Sniper For Visual Nightime ID (http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3aa5106613-7728-4495-bb6c-2b86deaf3774&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest)
.............a back-of-the-cocktail-napkin drawing has produced a low-cost, smart-phone-like app for quickly and cheaply integrating new podded sensors to combat aircraft........
The concept is similar to adding new applications (apps) to a smart phone.
“Instead of buying a whole new operating systems with Google Maps built into it, you get the new Google Maps app for your phone,” Giggy says. “We applied that model to fighter integration. It’s a shift that may have significant utility in applications to other sensor systems.”
The proprietary architecture model was designed by Calculex and Lockheed Martin – in discussion with the ANG – to come up with a smart-phone-like interface. An application driver would be designed for each hardware system along with a way to plug the system in and have it function properly with the existing aircraft.
“We didn’t want to buy another box,” Giggy says. “The aircraft has a central computer that we didn’t want to re-create. The only thing we are buying is the pod and the time for someone to code the application. Our hardware integration requires about a $10,000 piece of hardware. That’s a Calculex processor card that becomes the application driver. It goes into the digital video recorder in the F-15.”
Ares: F-15C Combines AESA and Sniper For Visual Nightime ID (http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3aa5106613-7728-4495-bb6c-2b86deaf3774&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest)
.............a back-of-the-cocktail-napkin drawing has produced a low-cost, smart-phone-like app for quickly and cheaply integrating new podded sensors to combat aircraft........
The concept is similar to adding new applications (apps) to a smart phone.
“Instead of buying a whole new operating systems with Google Maps built into it, you get the new Google Maps app for your phone,” Giggy says. “We applied that model to fighter integration. It’s a shift that may have significant utility in applications to other sensor systems.”
The proprietary architecture model was designed by Calculex and Lockheed Martin – in discussion with the ANG – to come up with a smart-phone-like interface. An application driver would be designed for each hardware system along with a way to plug the system in and have it function properly with the existing aircraft.
“We didn’t want to buy another box,” Giggy says. “The aircraft has a central computer that we didn’t want to re-create. The only thing we are buying is the pod and the time for someone to code the application. Our hardware integration requires about a $10,000 piece of hardware. That’s a Calculex processor card that becomes the application driver. It goes into the digital video recorder in the F-15.”