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Lockheed Martin UK Taps Enea's Database Management Systems for Merlin
Helicopter
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Enea, a provider of network software and services, announced that
Lockheed Martin UK has selected its Polyhedra database management
system for use in the Merlin Capability Sustainment Program (MCSP).
Polyhedra will be used to provide reliable, real-time data storage and
management for the Merlin Helicopter's Tactical Mission Computer (TMC)
System.
"We selected Polyhedra for incorporation within the Tactical Management
Computer Software after conducting a trade study that considered the
benefits of several COTS databases," said Lockheed Martin UK's Jeff
Goddard. "Polyhedra provided the performance and functionality we were
looking for in a real time database, the product meets our needs, and
integration within our system was cost effective and straightforward."
"As avionics software becomes more complex, developers are finding it
increasingly more difficult to provide reliable, high-performance data
management using home-grown solutions," said Virginia Walker, senior
vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Enea. "Polyhedra
gives avionics developers a full-featured RDBMS solution that delivers
a unique blend of real-time performance and fault-tolerance in an
easy-to-integrate COTS package. With Polyhedra handling the database
management, Lockheed Martin UK's design team can get a head start on
the application development process."
Lockheed Martin UK serves as the prime contractor for MCSP, a multiyear
project to upgrade the weapon system in the Royal Navy's Merlin
helicopter. The project's mission is to utilize open systems technology
to reduce full-life-cycle cost of ownership, facilitate technology
refresh and insertion, and substantially improve the helicopter's
mission system display and radar/sonar capabilities. The first flight
of the upgraded helicopter is planned for 2010.
The MCSP will examine all aspects of the weapon system, including
ground support and control. Merlin's man-machine interface will receive
particular emphasis, with developers seeking to make it more versatile
and intuitive, reduce operator workload, and facilitate simultaneous
control over multiple and diverse functions.
Polyhedra will be used in flight on Freescale PowerPC-based systems,
running atop the INTEGRITY real-time operating system from Green Hills
Software. Polyhedra will store dynamic, mission-relevant data,
utilizing its replica mechanism to disseminate that data to a number of
tactical mission systems. The replica databases, in turn, will utilize
Polyhedra's active query facility to keep their local operator screens
updated.
Polyhedra is an active SQL RDBMS that provides a persistent,
fault-tolerant, high-performance data repository for embedded systems
applications.
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