Germany Adopts KVH M100 Unjammable Tactical Navigation System As Standard

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The KVH M100

Middletown - Nov 07, 2003
KVH Industries said Thursday that the German Army has named the KVH M100 Ground Mobility Enhanced Navigation System (GMENS) a standard product in the German Army procurement system. With the new German designation "Navigationsanlage Kfz digitaler Kompass," the M100 has completed all formal testing and is now available for fielding by any German Army vehicle program with the need and the funding.

The self-contained M100 provides precision heading, pointing, and navigation data, and was most recently used aboard many coalition vehicles deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The German Army's acceptance follows on the heels of a similar announcement by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (SOCOM) that named the M100 a standard U.S. Army product.

"The acceptance of the M100 by the German Army illustrates the growing recognition that military vehicles require a proven, unjammable tactical navigation solution," said Dan Conway, KVH's vice president of business development.

"With combat, combat support, and service support vehicles often operating together in hostile territory, the ability for those units to advance together, coordinate their operations, and reach their objectives safely becomes paramount. We look forward to working with the German Army to field the M100 and ensure that German vehicles and crews have the navigation capabilities they require to complete their missions and return home safely."

Variants of the M100 are already in use aboard a number of German Army vehicles, including the 4x4 WOLF class vehicles and antenna mast-equipped 15-ton trucks. It has also been successfully tested on the WIESEL 2 tracked light armored vehicle.

The M100 GMENS is a member of KVH's TACNAV family of tactical navigation systems. KVH's TACNAV and fiber optic gyro products offer every military vehicle and every force commander - whether in a command, support, or combat vehicle - 100% availability of position and other tactical data, even if the signals from Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites are disrupted or jammed.

TACNAV systems can include both inertial and magnetic field sensors, making it impossible to jam. During operations in Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia, and Afghanistan, TACNAV's navigation capabilities were unaffected by harsh weather, and the system proved ideal for precision vehicle navigation in combat situations.

In addition to its use by the German Army, the TACNAV product family has been fielded by both the U.S. Army and Marine Corps as well as by many other allied countries, including Canada, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy, making TACNAV the most widely fielded tactical navigation system in the industry.

KVH Industries, Inc., designs and manufactures products that enable mobile communication, navigation, and precision pointing through the use of its proprietary mobile satellite antenna and fiber optic technologies.

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Atlas 5 Gets Go-Ahead For Wideband Launch In 2005

Mclean - Nov 04, 2003
The U.S. Air Force has authorized International Launch Services (ILS) to begin integrating the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite #3 (WGS-3) with the Atlas V rocket, as the second mission ordered from the company under the government's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. WGS-3 is planned for launch in early 2006 on the Atlas V vehicle built by Lockheed Martin.

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