Engineers at Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors, in Moorestown, N.J., needed a computer for an Aegis radar system. They found a solution with the PowerStream 7000 from Mercury Computer Systems in Chelmsford, Mass.
Lockheed Martin tested the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system in February using a PowerStream 7000 RapidIO-based multicomputer from Mercury. Sailors aboard the Burke-class destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) tested the system with their Aegis combat system, including an AN/SPY-1D radar, augmented with the BMD signal processor (BSP).
Mercury supplied the 6U RACE++ Series VME integrated signal-processing system embedded in the BSP. The processing capability of the Mercury system enabled the SPY-1D radar to achieve real-time detection, tracking, analysis and discrimination of several challenging targets in the BSP’s first at-sea participation of a BMD at-sea test campaign.
The PowerStream 7000 enables extreme processing density with one TeraFLOPS or more of total processing power within an air-cooled, deployable chassis. For more information, see www.mc.com/PowerStream7000.
