BARCO Awarded USD 2.2 Million Follow-on Order for U.S. Navy’s AN/UYQ-70 Program
EURONAVAL, LE BOURGET, FRANCE, 26 October, 1998 -- BARCO Display Systems has been awarded a USD 2.2 million follow-on order for high performance graphics controllers, video controllers, and rugged color displays by the Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems, Eagan, Minnesota / DRS Laurel Technologies, Johnstown, Pennsylvania team for the production of the U.S. Navy’s AN/UYQ-70 surface, subsurface, and airborne display consoles.
BARCO will be supplying Lockheed Martin’s team mate, DRS Laurel Technologies, with a combination of high-performance IVS4100 VME graphics controllers and live video frame grabbers, which provide the unique capability of simultaneous high performance graphics, real-time live video and radar video. The UYQ-70 controller configuration consists of 12 memory planes for overlay graphics, 12 memory planes for underlay graphics with integrated radar and live video windows.
The BARCO 19” RGN 651 rugged color displays utilized for the AN/UYQ-70 consoles have a special magnetic immunity system (MIS), which enables the monitors to operate within strong magnetic fields. Displays aboard both surface ships and submarines are impacted by the earth’s magnetic fields, which distorts the display colors as the ship changes directions. The BARCO MIS system passively and actively cancels the interference via a compensating magnetic field.
DRS will begin accepting delivery of the BARCO graphics and video controllers, and rugged color displays in the December 1998 timeframe.
About BarcoView:
BarcoView with operation facilities in Kortrijk (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, Oregon (USA) designs and manufactures high-resolution display systems, displays, graphics controllers and display subsystems for highly demanding niche markets such as C4I, avionics, vessel and air traffic control, vehicle electronics, and medical imaging applications.
Alongside Barco Projection Systems and BarcoVision, BarcoView is one of the three strategic activities of the BARCO Group, which are all active in Image Processing. Barco Projection is in various markets of large screen visualization, whereas BarcoVision develops systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2000, the entire BARCO group delivered a turnover of euro 751 million. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
For more information, please contact
Inge
Govaerts
Public Relations Manager
Barco Security & Monitoring
Telephone
+32 56 36 8052
inge.govaerts@barco.com
