SANTA CLARA, Calif., 23 July 2007. Advanced Knowledge Associates (AKA), makers of miniaturized, reconfigurable, self-contained system-on-module (SOM) technology, won a major contract with BAE Systems worth $10.5 million for circuit card assemblies containing modules to be used in the remanufacture of Bradley fighting vehicles.
The A3 Bradley is one of the most advanced, digitized combat systems at the forefront of U.S. Army operations around the world. It provides survivability, mobility, and lethality to U.S. soldiers in all types of close-combat urban environments and open terrain scenarios.
AKA's SOM modules are rugged and compact. Often replacing boards and daughter card assemblies, these 2x2-inch SOMs are equipped to deal with shock, vibration, and temperature extremes than other chases-based configurations. The modules are not subject to obsolescence issues to the same degree as individual components.
AKA modules incorporate approximately 300 components, yet are simple to replace, reuse, and upgrade, resulting in designs with greatly reduced time-to-market and increased commonality.
The modules produced by AKA are designed to address customer challenges including time-to-market, space and power saving, dealing with obsolescence, limited reuse, performance, cost, and operational simplification.
