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Army Awards ITT Video Fusing Contract

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Thursday, October 20th, 2011

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ITT [ITT] and Mercury Computer Systems [MRCY] plan to begin initial delivery to the Army this fall of its system designed to fuse and catalogue large volumes of video imagery collected by sensors aboard multiple unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), the partnering companies said. The Army awarded ITT the contract to provide its Federated Embedded inteL-server for the Collaborative Operations, or FELCO, system, the companies announced at the annual Association of the United States Army exposition recently. The Army issued the…

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