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AAI, L-3, Deliver Aerial Situational Awareness Architecture

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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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AAI Corp. [TXT] and L-3 Communication Systems-West [LLL] announced the achievement of a vital situational awareness architecture to support the Army's Datalink for Manned/Unmanned Systems (DMS)--bringing together reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition (RSTA) information across multiple airborne assets. AAI and L-3 Communication Systems-West's integrated aerial situational awareness system combines AAI's combat-proven One Systemr Remote Video Terminal (OSRVT) command-and- control architecture with certified communications components from L-3, the company said Sept. 22. The installation-ready system can be provided as a partially…

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