Curtiss-Wright has announced that its Defense Solutions division, in collaboration with Harris Government Communications Systems, has introduced the new FliteScene Digital Mapping Solution, its latest pre-validated, pre-tested System Ready Application (SRA).

The new SRA combines Harris's popular FliteScene Digital Moving Map software with a range of Curtiss-Wright's pre-integrated rugged single board computer (SBC) and high performance GPU-based display graphics controller board sets.

The resulting SRAs, which are marketed and supported by Curtiss-Wright, provide avionics system integrators with an open architecture COTS-based digital moving map solution for embedded avionics systems that significantly reduces their design risk and time to deployment.

The pre-validation and integration, provided by Curtiss-Wright, comes at no additional cost to the customer. Using the FliteScene SRA eases and speeds the integration of situational awareness and high performance digital mapping functions into embedded commercial and military avionics systems.

The FliteScene SRA is proven and field qualified. Already deployed on several demanding rotary wing aircraft applications, this pre-integrated digital moving map solution has successfully demonstrated the ease of integration and high reliability of the combined Harris software and Curtiss-Wright hardware solution.

"We are very pleased to collaborate with Harris to offer system integrators pre-tested and pre-validated cost-effective solutions for digital moving maps," said Lynn Bamford, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Defense Solutions division.

"Our System Ready Application approach eliminates the design risk associated with deploying new capabilities while they cut integration costs and time to market, helping to ensure the success of our customers' system designs."

Harris's FliteScene Digital Moving Map product is a combat-proven, feature-rich digital mapping software solution that enables system integrators to seamlessly integrate critical situational awareness capabilities into demanding commercial and military airborne platforms.

It provides scalable and configurable 2D and 3D terrain images, street maps, map overlays, and mission planning capabilities required for demanding aerospace, defense, law enforcement, fire, and search and rescue applications.

The FliteScene Digital Moving Map SRA is available in a wide range of form factor and bus architecture combinations. For example, for VME systems, the SRA combines the FliteScene software with Curtiss-Wright's 6U VME VME-186 SBC and XMC-715 graphics mezzanine card.

For SWaP-constrained applications, a small form factor 3U OpenVPX configuration combines the FliteScene software with Curtiss-Wright's VPX3-133 SBC and VPX3-716 graphics card.

If other combinations of form factors, SBCs and GPUs is desired, Curtiss-Wright is able to support the FliteScene integration to meet the application's unique system requirements. Contact the factory for more information.