January 27, 2010
Contact: Lucy Ryan
Tel: (703) 272 6010
Lucy.Ryan@gd-ais.com
General Dynamics at AFCEA West: Connecting, Securing and Networking Commanders and Sailors Space-to-Sea
WHAT: General Dynamics will demonstrate powerful systems and critical enabling technologies that build, connect, secure and sustain tactical networks for the Navy and Joint forces
WHERE: AFCEA West
San Diego Convention Center
111 West Harbor Drive
San Diego, Calif. 92101
Booth #2233
WHEN: February 2 - 4, 2010
Featured Demonstration:
In a realistic operational vignette, General Dynamics demonstrates how a U.S. government intelligence agency, Navy and coalition partners conduct the interdiction of a foreign-flagged ship suspected of carrying terrorist cargo. Enabled by joint, secure networked command, control and communications, the vignette demonstrates how global information sharing, situational awareness and command and control can ensure mission success without a shot fired.
Key demonstration enablers:
- Common Display System (CDS)
- Co-Motion collaboration technology
- Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) Rifleman Radio (AN/PRC-154)
- Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communications system
- Secure voice and data products
- SelectFocus™ video and image software
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies
Exhibit Highlights:
General Dynamics Information Systems and Technology:
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems demonstrates how its open architecture and open business approach enables collaboration and innovation and provides the Navy with increased warfighting capability at an affordable cost.
- Common Display System (CDS): Featuring a full-scale model of CDS, General Dynamics will demonstrate the modular, flexible and multi-level secure approach of this advanced display console.
- Littoral Combat Ship (LCS): General Dynamics’ Littoral Combat Ship offers a versatile, proven trimaran hull form, superior maneuverability and stability, endurance to travel 4,500 miles, three weapon module zones, capacity to carry any two-mission packages simultaneously, and a flight deck twice the size of any other surface combatant. Its open architecture systems infrastructure allows for rapid capability integration and upgrades. Learn more about the ship that, according to its commanding officer, “handles like a jet ski.” USS Independence (LCS 2) was commissioned on January 16, 2010, in Mobile, Ala.
- Motion Video / Multi-INT Exploitation and Dissemination: General Dynamics will demonstrate its proven motion video/multi-INT exploitation and dissemination capabilities and the applicability to the Distributed Common Ground Station – Navy and maritime domain awareness environment.
- Platform Systems Engineering Agent (PSEA): General Dynamics will highlight its role as a PSEA integrator on the Littoral Combat Ship and Joint High Speed Vessel programs.
General Dynamics C4 Systems provides secure communication and collaboration products and systems that enable ‘everything-over-IP’ naval network operations with dynamic bandwidth allocation and advanced security for global mission success.
- Co-Motion: A collaboration tool enabling a virtual, map-based visualization workspace that allows operational commanders and analysts across the room, or around the world, to remotely maintain and share real-time information and situational awareness.
- CISC 1U Server: A Common Hardware Systems-3 (CHS-3) product, the CISC server is a compact rugged 1U Server that demonstrates running U.S. Navy software. The rugged rack mountable server is deployed in theater today and is highly expandable with multiple processors and processor cores. It provides removable hard drives and front accessible USB port all protected in a hardened enclosure.
- CHS-3 is a competitively awarded contract vehicle available to all branches of the U.S. military and all government agencies. Existing products and services already on the contract can be quickly procured using the CHS 3 vehicle; and new products and services not already on the contract can be quickly added.
- General Dynamics Itronix laptop products: Military-rugged laptops providing computing power in a portable package.
- Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) network radios: The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) Rifleman Radio (AN/PRC-154) is optimized for operation in Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) networks. The Rifleman Radio has completed Performance Verification Testing, Environmental testing, EMI testing, Government Limited User Testing and is on schedule to be the first radio to receive NSA certification to run SRW.
- Multi-processor Ethernet-switched Combat Chassis-5 (MECC-5): A Common Hardware Systems-3 (CHS-3) product, the MECC-5 enables multiple U.S. Navy applications to run on a common platform. The MECC-5 demonstration features hardware-diagnostic software that shows how multiple independent applications can be integrated onto one rugged, compact, physical platform.
- Mobile User Objective System (MUOS): Enabling narrowband satellite communications, MUOS provides cell phone-like voice, data and video communication services to mobile warfighters worldwide.
- Mobile Server Unit (MSU): A Common Hardware Systems-3 (CHS-3) product, the MUS is a rugged server in a laptop package with an optional built in display. The MSU can be rack mounted or used as a portable server.
- Otus™ Integrated Mobile Situational Awareness System: The Otus system enables remote users on the move to send sharp images/video of areas of interest in real-time via the Iridium® satellite communication system to those relying on them to coordinate, execute and respond.
- Sectéra® Edge™: The Sectéra Edge is the only NSA-certified smartphone to provide secure wireless access to classified e-mail and websites on the government's SIPRNET (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network) and the government's sensitive but unclassified NIPRNET network. The Edge smartphone enables both classified and unclassified phone calls.
- Sectéra vIPer™ Secure Phone: The Sectéra vIPer Phone provides the latest technology for both non-secure and secure, end-to-end Voice over IP (VoIP) and traditional telephone networks. The vIPer Phone is certified to protect information classified Top Secret and below including Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), and is available to support multiple key-sets for U.S. government sponsored interoperability (e.g., NATO and coalition).
- SelectFocus™: This group of software-based image/video products enable the network transmission of critical imagery and video without consuming vast amounts of bandwidth.
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): SOA technologies and standards make it feasible for secure interoperability and collaboration among organizations using separate networks, security infrastructures and operating systems.
- TACLANE® -Micro Inline Network Encryptor: The TACLANE-Micro is the next-generation High Assurance IP Encryptor Interoperability Specification (HAIPE® IS) and Crypto Modernization Compliant encryptor. Optimized for both tactical and strategic environments, the TACLANE-Micro is high-speed, compact and mobile. TACLANE encryptors are currently securing networks and authenticating users on major air, land, sea and space platforms.
- Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE): TVE is a trusted multi-level computing solution that enables users to view multiple operating systems, security domains and networks on a single computer. TVE eliminates the need for multiple workstations, which increases efficiency and reduces energy, maintenance and IT costs.
General Dynamics Information Technology provides information technology, systems integration, professional services and simulation and training support to the U.S. Navy and Joint Forces to increase maritime safety, sustained communications and mission readiness.
- Command and Control Environmental Decision Support (C2EDS): C2EDS is a suite of theater-level analysis and planning tools designed to provide Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Tactical Decision Makers with the tools necessary to determine the impact of the environment on sensor and weapon systems and using the results to plan missions, provide situational awareness and sensor performance prediction capabilities.
- Sustained Communications: Provider of secure infrastructure services for voice, video and data infrastructure, both wired and wireless, for C4ISR users within the Naval Enterprise -- ashore, afloat and airborne.
- Mission Readiness: Full spectrum systems engineering and IT services, financial and business management solutions, and enterprise asset management for the Navy with team SPAWAR, SSC-Pacific, Fleet Readiness Command, and USMC.
General Dynamics Marine Systems
General Dynamics Electric Boat has established standards of excellence in the design, construction and lifecycle support of U.S. submarines for more than a century.
- Electric Boat’s display features cross-section models of a Block III Virginia class submarine and an SSGN guided missile submarine. The display reveals how large diameter/volume payload tubes, two on the Virginia Class, and 24 on the SSGNs, have been reconfigured to enable the cost-effective integration of new sensors, weapons and vehicles, extending the reach and effectiveness of both submarine classes.
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