Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth more than $12 million from FlightSafety International (FSI) to supply seven Compu-Scene SE2000 Plus image generators to upgrade CAE-built Lockheed C-5 Galaxy simulators used by the US Air Force (Flight International, 9-15 August, P21). Deliveries will begin in May 1996 and the first upgraded C-5 simulator will be ready for training in September 1996.
FSI is the launch customer for the Compu-Scene SE Plus, which it selected over CAE's MaxVue, Evans & Sutherland's ESIG-3000 and its own Vital ChromaView, says Florida-based Lockheed Martin Information Systems. The contract includes a Target database-generation system.
The five-channel, geospecific photo-textured, image-generators will be compatible with night-vision goggles, and with existing databases using the standard interchange-format (SIF). Lockheed Martin says that the SE Plus and Target were selected because they produced the best terrain accuracy with the highest database-generation and SIF-conversion efficiencies and the lowest database development and maintenance costs.
Source: Flight International
