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ROHDE & SCHWARZ COMPLETES RAAF AGAT PROJECT
ROHDE & Schwarz Australia has com- pleted its scope of work as communi- cations systems integrator (CSI) for the Air Ground Air Transition (AGAT) project led by BAE Systems, or Air 5431 Phase 3.
Project Air 5431 Phase 3 acquires the defence element of the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System (CMATS) that will be used for the provision of air base air traffic services (ABATS) to both civil and military aircraft.
CMATS will replace the air traffic management and control systems at nine military approach control sites and 12 military towers around Australia.
Equipment integrated into the ex- isting infrastructure over 16 months included over 300 R&S Series4200 ra- dios, CERTIUM VCS-4G voice com- munications systems and legal voice recorders, and R&S RCMS II remote control and monitoring systems.
“Working to a tight project sched- ule, our team has again been equal to the task,” Managing Director Rohde & Schwarz Australia Gareth Evans said. “To set up a team and design, deliver and integrate these systems to achieve
the factory acceptance test milestones in under 5 months, and subsequently deliver the systems for 12 sites over the next 11 months – 4 of which were sub- ject to a COVID-19 freeze – is a truly admirable feat and I’m immensely proud of their efforts.”
Rohde & Schwarz Australia provid- ed the complete business continuity function (backup voice communica- tions system) and monitoring subsys- tems to BAE Systems, with the scope of work spanning the initial require- ments review through to the human-
ABOVE: Rohde & Schwarz Australia has completed its scope of work for the RAAF Air Ground Air Transition project.
machine interface (HMI), system safety and security working groups, and design reviews culminating in ac- ceptance test and evaluation activities.
Services included project man- agement, systems design and devel- opment, systems integration, HMI customisation, security hardening, verification and validation, and inte- grated logistics support.
DRONESHIELD TO PARTNER WITH AMC
DRONESHIELD HAS ANNOUNCED that it has signed a collaboration agree- ment with the Australian Mis- sile Corporation (AMC), as the $1bn Guided Weapons and Explosive Ord-
nance (GWEO) enterprise enters the next phase.
The AMC was one of the Australian- based GWEO enterprise panel part- ners invited by the Commonwealth
Government in April to work with global missile manufacturing giants Lockheed Martin and Raytheon in establish- ing a local industry.
Considered areas of cooperation between AMC and DroneShield
LEFT: DroneShield Systems.
include counterdrone security as well as Electronic Warfare and associated Artificial Intelligence work.
“We are pleased to cooperate with DroneShield, with its Australian sovereign capability, as we progress our GWEO program,” Rear Admiral LeeGoddard(Ret.),AMC’sCEO, commented. “Its world-leading tech- nologies combined with its expertise in engineering and physics would be critical to the development of guided weaponsinAustralia.”
“We are thrilled to work with AMC and its network of partners, to assist in delivering this iconic Australian defence program,” DroneShield CEO, Oleg Vornik, added. ■
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