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General Micro Systems Receives Multi-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Award for Smart, Rugged, All-in-One Displays for Navy's ModernizationGeneral Micro Systems, Inc. (GMS (News - Alert)) today announced that its SD19 rugged smart display is being deployed for use in modernizing select U.S. Navy ships. This smart, all-in-one display will be distributed throughout the Navy's fleet to replace an existing "dumb" display that had been facing end-of-life challenges. The award comes from a customer that turned to General Micro Systems (GMS) to combine two functions into one: a rugged, 19-inch LCD with special electrical, mechanical and environmental characteristics; and a rugged Intel (News - Alert)®-based single-board computer running Microsoft® Windows. GMS met the specification requirements in all cases and units passed rigorous qualification testing. From an RFQ first seen in 2013, the SD19 SmartView™ display system is now in the deployment phase. General Micro Systems has been awarded multi-year contracts to deliver tens of displays per ship, with volume of several dozen ships per year. "Combined, all programs will exceed several million dollars in revenue to GMS per year," said GMS CEO Ben Sharfi. "And it started with a long-time customer. They knew we were in the smart display business, and they knew we supplied VME-based single-board computers to the Navy's fleet of ships." Upon receipt of the system specification-which required not only backwards compatibility with the existing display but also incorporated a ship data-management computer function-GMS quoted a smart display system that combined multiple functions into one and was a fraction of the cost and thinner than competing products. The technical challenge was maintaining one hundred percent backwards compatibility with the existing display system while still adding the complete computer subsystem within the same physical space. "The other guys were over 8-inches thick, used a technology that isn't rugged, and required a fan," said Sharfi. "We are around 3.5-inches thin, passively cooled and run circles around the other options."
Multiple Navy Systems and Programs Undergoing Modernization For the ships being equipped with GMS SD19 SmartView displays, many use multiple instances of the SD19 smartdisplay system and are installed inside or out on deck, depending upon the ship's configuration.
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"Hammer-tested" Touchscreen with Night Vision Capability The SD19 has been proven to pass the "hammer test" per MIL-STD-901D, which simulates a projectile striking the ship while the ship's systems must continue to operate. As this video shows, the SD19 SmartView unit withstood well over 100G in all three axes while operating and successfully passed the test. Come See General Micro Systems and the SD19 SmartView™ at AFCEA West, San Diego, Booth #741 General Micro Systems Is Trusted and Deployed: On the Sea, in the Air and on Land
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