LockMart Selects FlexComm Platform for Advanced Military Communications

SPACEWAR

LockMart To Use FlexComm For Advanced Military Communications

illustration only

Columbia MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2004
Spectrum Signal Processing Inc., a leading provider of high performance solutions for wireless signal processing applications, announced Tuesday that its flexComm SDR-3000 software reconfigurable platform has been selected by Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the development of advanced communications systems.

"We are pleased that Lockheed Martin Space Systems will be employing Spectrum's application specific platform offering," stated James Atkins, President of Spectrum Signal Processing (USA) Inc.

"The SDR-3000 is the only high performance platform of its kind designed specifically for communications applications. Its capabilities are ideal for developing leading-edge systems for use in a variety of defense communications programs."

The flexComm SDR-3000 configuration for Lockheed Martin combines high performance field programmable gate arrays from Xilinx and PowerPC processors from Motorola and IBM for signal processing.

Rapid IO provides a high bandwidth interconnect fabric between the processors, as well as the input/output functionality to the processors, to ensure efficient use of the processing resources. Software development tools include Spectrum's quicComm hardware abstraction layer to facilitate algorithm partitioning and programming, and a POSIX-compliant real-time operating system.

"Spectrum's SDR-3000 platform combines integrated, high performance hardware with communications optimized software to enable the development of advanced signal processing systems," stated Chris Jelks, senior manager of strategic IR&D for Special Programs at Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

"We will be using the SDR-3000 to develop foundational technology applicable to several communications-related programs."

SPACEWAR

L-3 Narda Satellite Networks Awarded Contract Valued at $30 Million

New York (SPX) May 13, 2004
L-3 Communications said Tuesday that its Narda Satellite Networks division has been awarded a $30.0 million interim, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) task order contract to provide deployable Satellite Communications Systems, Subsystems and components, as well as maintenance support to The Space and Naval Warfare System Center (SPAWAR) in Tampa, FL. The company has received the first task order under this contract for a quantity of AN/USC-60A Terminals (FTSAT) valued at $15.75 million for the U.S. Air Force.