RTI Joins Forces with Samsung Thales on Naval Combat Systems Development

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) September 24, 2007 -- SANTA CLARA, CA, September 24, 2007–Real-Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, today announced an agreement to provide Samsung Thales with RTI Data Distribution Service software and related services in support of the FFX-I naval combat system for the Republic of South Korea. RTI Data Distribution Service offers a comprehensive solution for distributing and managing real-time data across a distributed system, ensuring performance, real-time quality-of-service and scalability.

To replace existing frigate ships in operation, the FFX-I naval combat system includes the mission computer functions installed in the legacy FFK combat systems. The FFX-I combat system’s automated functions include target detection, tracking, threat assessment and weapon control for efficient combat execution, allowing operation with a minimum of personnel.

The government procurement agency and design authority (DA) for the FFX-I combat system is the Agency for Defense Development (ADD). Samsung Thales was awarded the prime contract for the FFX-I system integration/command and fire-control system (SI/CFCS)—the core component of the FFX-I combat system—and has contracted with RTI for a real-time data communications solution that encompasses the sensors, instruments and computers controlling the ship’s weapon system.

About RTI Data Distribution Service

RTI Data Distribution Service (formerly NDDS) is a high-performance messaging and data-caching solution for the development and integration of applications that require low-latency, high-throughput, high-scalability, deterministic responses and minimal consumption of network, processor and memory resources. RTI Data Distribution Service is an open-architecture platform that complies with the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems standard (DDS).

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