Avionics designers at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas, needed a cockpit display for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. They found a solution with L-3 Communications’ Display Systems division, Alpharetta, Ga.
L-3 Display Systems will lead a team that designs the Panoramic Cockpit Display (PCD) subsystem, a high-resolution, high-brightness, night-vision-compatible, 20-inch by 8-inch active-matrix liquid-crystal display and a highly redundant display management computer.
The PCD will provide pilot control and display for the major functions of the JSF aircraft, including flight displays; sensor displays; communication, radio and navigation systems and identification systems, and provides the pilot with total situational awareness.
The potential contract value over the life of the program is over $200 million, with delivery of the first operational aircraft to the armed services scheduled for 2009.
The Lockheed Martin F-35 is a fifth-generation, supersonic, multirole stealth fighter designed to replace aging AV-8B Harriers, A-10s, F-16s, F/A-18 Hornets and United Kingdom Harrier GR.7s and Sea Harriers.
For more information, see www.L-3Com.com/displays.
