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Formation's products are in
operation throughout the world, providing reliable service for military and
commercial customers. Among the longest-standing customers are top OEMs for
the aircraft industry including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and
Rockwell Collins and major high tech electronics manufacturers such as IBM,
Panasonic, and Motorola.
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Business Highlights
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Delivered more than 1,600 avionics class
servers and 110,000 other avionic products
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Selected by Airbus for an Ethernet
switch/router/ firewall and disk-based servers as “Supplier
Furnished Equipment”
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Developed ToughDisk 7200, the first avionic
Serial ATA diskpack
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Developed ToughDisk 3500, the first drop-in
rugged COTS replacement for standard 3.5 low profile hard disk
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ToughDisk used for applications by all branches of the U.S. military
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Delivered the Advanced Integrated Recorder to:
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US Navy air stations
worldwide
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Thales – Raytheon joint
venture as part of command & control communications at all NATO air
stations
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Copenhagen ATC for distributed record, control and replay functions
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Holland Zeeland Port security, Royal Danish Air Force and the Royal
Dutch Air Force
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U.S. Navy
Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft
(Jet
Transport) |
TD7204 |
Formation developed the
TD7200 in response to a client's need to offer less expensive recording
products to its customers. At that time, all of the clients' products
were based on expensive solid state memory. While pursuing the Navy’s MMA program,
the company determined that a higher-capacity product was needed, which resulted
in Formation’s development of the TD7204. The client won the MMA program and is
using the TD7204 (480GB) in the three recorders it is providing to
Boeing. |
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Airborne Data Storage |
U.S. Coast
Guard (Deepwater)
(Turboprops) |
TD3500 |
A client needed a complete
rugged data storage solution for its system software and data on Coast
Guard airplanes. Formation combined the TD3500 with disk drive carriers
and a 4U chassis to meet their hot-swap and extreme environmental
requirements. Formation reduced the disk drive warm-up time and
worked with the chassis vendor to make modifications in the chassis to
meet program needs. |
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Airborne
Recording |
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TD3500 |
A client is using the TD3500
to provide data storage for high-resolution video recorders in Air Force
gun ships. The recorders enable the Air Force to record planes in action
and also provide for review of operations. |
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Mobile Computing |
Air Force BCC-X/BCS-M
(Military Vehicles) |
TD3500 |
Formation integrated TD3500s
in AIR servers mounted in Humvees. The TD3500 is used to improve the
performance of the system in extreme environments because of its
extended temperature operation. |
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Remote
Computing |
U.S. Army
Special Forces & U.S. Marine Corps Unit Operations Centers |
TD3500 |
Formation provided TD3500s to
be used for storage of system software, targeting data, and moving map
information in servers a client is providing to the Army and Marine Corps.
The servers are used by Army Special Forces and Marine Corps Unit
Operations Centers throughout the world. |
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Shipboard Weapons Sys. |
Royal
Norwegian Navy
(Navy
Warship) |
TD7200 |
A client is using TD7200s to
provide rugged data storage for ship-based weapons systems for the Royal
Norwegian Navy. They have been using this product successfully in
this application for over three years. |
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Submarine Communication Systems |
AIR
(Submarine) |
TD3500 |
Formation provided complete
systems consisting of COTS rackmount servers, Formation’s Advanced
Integrated Recorder software (AIR) and TD3500s to a foreign navy for a
submarine application. The TD3500 is used instead of standard drives
because of the submarine’s humidity, pressure, and shock requirements. |
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Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles |
MiniSAR |
TD7200 |
A client is using
TD7200s to provide rugged data storage of radar information from
small-aperture radars in UAVs. |
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