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Esterline | Esterline Advanced Displays President Kennedypark 35 A

8500 Kortrijk, Belgium Tel: +32 56 27 2000

E-mail: sales.codis@esterline.comWebsite: www.esterline.com

CODIS® PRODUCT SUPPORT GENERAL VEHICLE ARCHITECTURE (GVA)

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The adoption of an Interoperable Open Architecture (IOA) by vehicle system integrators will have a significant impact on defense procurement. With its new Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) and Def Stan 23-09, the UK MOD has arguably been one of the most innovative and impactful defense procurement agencies (DPA) of any democratic nation. The UK MOD has raised the bar for system-of-systems integration management by initiating a fundamental shift in perspective regarding collaboration between DPAs and systems integrators (SIs). This new approach provides for the development of all future vehicles using a single, logically connected, cohesive and coherent architecture for maximized utility while enabling field command to derive the best logistically from military assets. IOA adoption also sets the stage for a more competitive procurement process that can only improve the economics of future vehicle development. The biggest savings will come in through life maintenance, upgrade cost reductions and Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) simplification. GVA will create a market that is increasingly open for military vehicle components and sub-systems, which in turn will drive a more competitive market and lead to cost reductions. Esterline CODIS® product portfolio is the widest equipment offering available today on the market, enabling allied nations and their SIs to adopt the General Vehicle Architecture, saving time and money for GVA insertion into their strategic Land Vehicle developments.

Figure 1: Esterline GVA product portfolio

The Esterline CODIS® product portfolio includes equipment such as

1. GVA displays of multiple size, including 10.4’’, 12.1’’, 13.6’’and road map 15.6’’ 2. Computer and GVA server, 3. Rugged GVA Tablets of multiple size, including 10.4’’, 12.1’’ and road map 15.6’’

Esterline CODIS® products satisfy the Open Architecture requirements at the equipment level, meeting the analogue and digital interface standards for video (DVI-D, DVI-A, HD-SDI, Def Stan 00-82) as well as the ergonomic and connectivity requirements such as Def Stan 23-09.

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The associated CODIS® products are today fully qualified and fielded, reducing the risk for the procurement and integration phases of our customers to the handover of the equipment. Esterline is pleased to offer an in-depth training to cover the risk of handover of the equipment to null. Currently available CODIS® products include the following:

1. TX-126 10.4’’ rugged display with GVA function keys, DVI-A, analog Pal/NTSC and HD-SDI interfaces, touch screen capable

2. TX-340 15.6’’ rugged display with GVA function keys, DVI-A, analog Pal/NTSC and HD-SDI interfaces, touch screen capable

3. GVD-126 GVA Video Display, 10.4’’ size, DVI-D, analog Pal/NTSC and Def Stan 00-82 capable

4. GVD-231 GVA Video Display, 12.1’’ size, DVI-D, analog Pal/NTSC and Def Stan 00-82 capable

5. Road map GVD-340 GVA Video Display, 15.6’’ size, DVI-D, analog Pal/NTSC and Def Stan 00-82 capable

6. DPM-3 Rugged Computer, 6th Gen Intel CPU and memory DDS capable, Dual display interface, Multiple Vehicle IO capable

7. DPM-Ve GVA Server, 6th Gen Intel CPU and memory DDS capable 8. VPU Video Processing Unit DEF-STAN 00-82 Video Server, 10 GB Fiber bandwidth

capable to create and combine multiple video into Crew Member perspectives 9. SmartView SV-126 GVA Smart Display, 10.4’’ size, DVI-D, analog Pal/NTSC and

Def Stan 00-82 capable on top of the on-board 6th Gen Intel CPU and memory DDS capable

10. SmartView SV-231 GVA Smart Display, 12.1’’ size, DVI-D, analog Pal/NTSC and Def Stan 00-82 capable on top of the on-board 6th Gen Intel CPU and memory DDS capable

11. (Road Map) SmartView SV-340 GVA Smart Display, 15.6’’ size, DVI-D, analog CPU and memory DDS capable

CODIS® Digital Video expertise, CODIS® Video-over-IP experience, and CODIS® innovative ruggedization techniques all serve the full range of these products. The products have been GVA certified inside international programs driven by GVA architecture such as running programs of the Commonwealth of Nations. The next step forward is the NATO GVA standard of the MILVA. The MILVA Working Group has prepared the RATIFICATION DRAFT 1 document of the STANAG 4754 standard (NATO Generic Vehicle Architecture (NGVA) for Land Systems) for ratification by the NATO national staffs. The expected implementation states ‘This STANAG is effective upon receipt and ready to be used by the implementing nations and NATO bodies. The partner nations are invited to adopt this STANAG.’

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Traditional ‘bolt-on’ approach, its limitations and implications The one screen per device ‘bolt-on’ approach where individual sub-systems are acquired and integrated into the vehicle has been adopted in many land vehicle developments in the past. However, this approach resulted in exponential growth in complexity over time with the increased number of sub-systems on board. Problems with size, weight, power and cooling (SWaP-C) within the vehicle have also become persistent. In addition, such piecemeal, but tightly coupled integration would reduce flexibility when it comes to technology insertion and obsolescence management. The ‘closed’ system design and interfaces complicated integration and usually led to a lock-in with the original supplier for downstream system maintenance, logistics and upgrades. The problems associated with ‘bolt-on’ integration are illustrated in Figure 2.

Figure 2: One screen per device ‘bolt-on’ integration

The Open Systems across the Land Environment approach has been introduced by the UK MOD under the LOSA acronym. LOSA is aligned with the JSP906 Directive - Defense Principles for Coherent Capability

• Principle 1: Unify Defense • Principle 2: Drive Operational and Business Effectiveness • Principle 3: Minimize Diversity • Principle 4: Develop and Deliver for Re-use • Principle 5: Choose Proven Ways and Means First • Principle 6: Ensure Commonality of Service Provision across Defense • Principle 7: Develop and Deliver Capability for Flexibility, Adaptability and

Interoperability • Principle 8: Use Open Standards and Approaches

The LOSA Target is to improve operational effectiveness: Rapid response to changing situations, reduced training burden, increased platform availability, improved interoperability and easier system management. and reduce the cost of ownership: Faster, simpler, and cheaper procurement, the ability to procure heterogeneous, multi-vendor open systems, Easy to upgrade. Reduced TL costs. Prevents proprietary lock-in. Returns control to MOD.

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The General Vehicle Architecture (GVA) answers the LOSA targets with the current GVA key requirements:

• Use of a standardized, multifunctional, Crew Control & Display (‘One Glass’, ‘OneHeadset’)

• Use of a Ethernet LAN for all inter sub-system data communication• Use of DDS as the data distribution protocol (‘real time’, publish & subscribe)• Use of the GVA Data Model to define the data exchanged between sub-systems

and components.• Use of Def Stan 00-82 for platform video distribution• Use of Def Stan 61-5 for power distribution• Standardized power and data connectors• Requirement for platform HUMS service current GVA key requirements

and the future GVA requirements: • Standardized approach to security architecture• Expansion of Def Stan 00-82 to cover audio streaming and acoustic data• Expansion of the standard to define key ‘Integrated Mission System’ common

services and behaviors – ex. Arbitration, Resource Management.• Standardized HUMS data export format/protocol• Common platform functions and services definition – ex. crew voice services,

position data service, sub-system time synchronization services, key fill service,data storage service, standard execution environments.

• Integration of safety critical and related systems and functions

The implementation of all these requirements is on-going, and the ultimate step towards NGVA is the STANAG 4754 standard certification process and is under consideration to form a basis specifically for the NGVA Verification and Validation volume.

Figure 3: Esterline GVA crew display on board the vehicle

The GVA and NGVA standards are today adopted by more and more Defense Ministries as an essential requirement for adapting the mission systems on board the vehicles. Esterline is a pioneer in Human Machine Interface equipment on board the GVA and NGVA vehicles, providing Open System solutions to the different system and sub-systems integrators, enabling the required Interoperable Open Architecture with one unique HMI post.

The time has arrived for sub-system integrators to deliver a sensor or a remotely controlled weapon station with an application running the Open Architecture onto a GVA/NGVA certified HMI, rather than providing their own HMI equipment.