A 500 Gip/s simulation engine

Buffalo 22 Oct 99 Comptek Research announced that as part of its delivery to Lockheed Martin Company Sanders, of the most capable electronic warfare simulation system ever developed, the company, through its Comptek Amherst Systems subsidiary, also developed and delivered a supercomputer class processing engine. The computer contains almost 40 gigabytes of high-speed memory, integrated to provide a total processing capability of over 500,000 million instructions per second (MIPS).

The computer was developed by Comptek Amherst under a $17.3 million contract with Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, to supply an Advanced Dynamic Radio Frequency Simulator (ADRS) system for use on a major U.S. Air Force program presently under development at Sanders. This electronic warfare simulator generates the real-time threats that U.S. combat aircraft can expect to face in future electronic battle situations.

Comptek electronic warfare simulators belong to a very exclusive community where processing power of this magnitude is required to solve the most realistic simulation problems in today's fast moving electronic combat environment.

Sanders is an operating company of the Lockheed Martin Systems Integration business area, a leader in the design, development and integration of complex systems for global defense, civil and commercial markets. Sanders is a major producer of aircraft self-protection systems and tactical surveillance and intelligence systems for all branches of the armed forces. Other major business areas include microwave, mission and space electronics, and automated mission planning systems.

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