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SKY Computers in Military and Defense

For more than 25 years SKY Computers has provided advanced COTS solutions for the most demanding defense/military programs. SKY's COTS solutions begins with development systems for benign environments, migrates to rugged systems for deployment, and extends to co-development or licensing solutions designed to fit specific mission applications. Application software moves seamlessly from development to deployment. In military establishments all over the world, systems integrators realize the benefits of quick application implementation, as well as reduced costs and risk. SKY's multiprocessing technology lies at the heart of many advanced military and defense systems, including surface ship multi-function radars and target-acquisition systems, undersea warfare systems, airborne surveillance/reconnaissance systems, ground-based radars and more.

SKY Computers builds some of the world's fastest and most reliable embedded computer systems. Thunderbolt™ is the latest generation of VME-based embedded computers that deliver unprecedented levels of scalability, reliability and price/performance for demanding applications and harsh environments. Based on open standards, SKY Computers' SMART Systems architecture delivers high-performance and high application availability with a secure, "intelligent," and adaptable design that includes both hardware and software resources. And later this fall it will be available in 6U/VXS form factor.

Many developers of defense systems have found that their applications naturally decompose into a front end for data acquisition and a back end for processing and analysis. The first members of the SMART Systems architecture family, the SMARTpac™ 600 data acquisition server and the SMARTpac 1200 compute server, readily support this application partitioning.

The SMARTpac 600, the SMARTpac 1200, and the upcoming VXS products – based on the same hardware and software architecture – are designed as complementary systems.

What our Customers Say: "The selection of SKY Computers represents consensus between DARPA, CECOM, AFRL and Lockheed Martin to use SKYchannel as the base technology for the FOPEN Program. To gain this kind of broad support, SKY had to demonstrate hands down that the scalability of their architecture and the interprocessor communications speed were superior to any other available or pending solutions." - Lockheed Martin, Goodyear, AZ "The advanced technology in SKY computer systems fully supports the high capacity, low latency requirements of real time signal processing. The company has a clearly defined approach to its products that enables confident development on today's products with portability to tomorrow's." - From QinetiQ literature