Air Force Targets Rockwell Collins For CRIIS

Oct. 7, 2010
Rockwell Collins has been selected by the United States Air Force as the prime contractor for the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS). The initial contract is valued at $140 million. With options, the contract is valued ...

Rockwell Collins has been selected by the United States Air Force as the prime contractor for the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS). The initial contract is valued at $140 million. With options, the contract is valued at more than $300 million. CRIIS, a next-generation military test range system will replace the Advanced Range Data System currently in use at major US military test ranges and will be used to provide time, space, and position information (TSPI) and system test data to support weapons system tests for advanced aircraft, ships, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and dismounted soldiers.

According to Ron Hornish, Vice President and General Manager of Precision Strike Solutions for Rockwell Collins, "Rockwell Collins' proven technology, coupled with our open systems approach, enables the Air Force to deliver a low-risk solution for military test ranges today and for the coming decades. Ultimately, this approach gives the military the ability to more effectively test and evaluate system performance, so that those next-generation systems can be deployed to the fi eld more rapidly and with a high degree of confi dence." The Rockwell Collins development team includes Cubic Defense Applications, Honeywell, and ArgonST.

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.

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