Chemring's NIITEK wins US Army contract
Above: The Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS).
The RVIS system provides remote viewing of the Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS) Graphical User Interface (GUI) display in a follow-on vehicle. HMDS uses an advanced, high-performance GPR to detect both non-metallic and metal-cased buried threats. In deliberate route clearance missions, the RVIS system allows additional operation from another vehicle, the ability to view and manipulate the HMDS Graphic User Interface and provide improved situational awareness to the route clearance package (RCP). Deliveries of the systems and initial spares are scheduled for completion by January 2013.
"The RVIS system is a complimentary technology to the Husky Mounted Detection Systems currently deployed in theatre," said Juan Navarro, President of NIITEK. Mr. Navarro added: "RVIS provides the HMDS operator another set of 'eyes' by transmitting real-time detection information to a secondary display being monitored by others. This enhanced capability allows HMDS and remote operators to quickly analyse and verify threats ensuring improved mission execution in a minimal amount of time."
Chemring is a market leading manufacturing business supplying high technology electronics and energetic products to over 80 countries around the world. Chemring has a diverse portfolio of products that predominantly protect military people and platforms, providing insurance against a constantly changing threat. These range from countermeasures to protect aircraft, to ground penetrating radar to protect troops and vehicles from improvised explosive devices. NIITEK, a Chemring company since 2008, is the world leader in the design, development and production of Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems.
The NIITEK Advanced GPR systems are at the leading edge of mine detection technology with over 250 systems successfully being used by US and Coalition forces in Afghanistan.
