Northrop Grumman Awarded U.S. Navy Contract for Next-Generation Mission Computer
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The lightweight FlightPro™ mission computer is renowned for integrating advanced mission, weapons and video processing capabilities into a conduction-cooled, high-performance airborne computer. The latest model, FlightPro™ Gen III, features the newest computing technology in multiple partitioned, 8-core PowerPC™-based processors. The new mission computer offers increased computing resources and an extended lifetime due to long-term product support from suppliers.
"Our enhanced FlightPro™ Gen III mission computer is the most capable general purpose mission computer on the market, offering unmatched performance, affordability and flexibility," said
The fully qualified mission computer is easily configurable for different system requirements by leveraging commercial off-the-shelf technology, model-based software design and an open systems architecture. The computer can provide a partitioned computing environment to customers around the world and is compatible with rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft as well as unmanned aerial systems.
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