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ADI Wins Major Contract Award

3 November 1997

ADI Wins Major Contract Award

    ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 3 -- Applied Dynamics International
(ADI, Ann Arbor, MI) and United Defense Limited Partnership (UDLP,
Minneapolis, MN) today announced that ADI has been selected to provide a total
of twenty-two SIMsystems to UDLP, in support of the Crusader System.  UDLP is
the prime contractor to the US Army for the Crusader, a two-vehicle
armament system comprised of a self-propelled battlefield vehicle and a
resupply vehicle.  The value of the ADI contract is in excess of $3 million.
    ADI credits its win in this competitive procurement to the recent advances
in its standard SIMsystem product line.  This includes the BRIDGErt
for SystemBuild and ADI's new ADvantage Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) which combine to provide a simplified and consistent user environment
for model migration to the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation activity.
Further, ADI offers the software infrastructure to handle the challenges of
allocating the variety of resources across a number of systems while also
accommodating any changes in system requirements.  ADI already supports most
of the required interfaces for the Crusader project, thereby minimizing
additional development tasks.
    The Crusader program requires a variety of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)
VME-based emulator systems for use in control system rapid prototyping, HIL
testing, and real-time simulation and emulation.  Sixteen different emulator
configurations are needed to meet the various I/O requirements, including
analog, digital, and bus interfaces as well as integration of satellite-based
timing signals.  Finally, each system will contain the compute power and
software to seamlessly migrate models created with the Integrated Systems,
Inc., MATRIXx(TM)/SystemBuild(TM) software to the real-time HIL execution.
    Deliveries commence in December and will be completed in February of 1998.
ADI will also provide training as well as on-going engineering support to
UDLP.
    Applied Dynamics International provides hardware, software, and
engineering services for embedded software developers and control system
engineers.  Since 1957, ADI real-time computer systems have been used
extensively in advanced control system applications in the aerospace, defense,
training, and automotive industries.

SOURCE  Applied Dynamics International