Core Systems to supply FAA compliant displays for Minotaur system

Core Systems has been selected to supply the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) compliant display panels to support the Minotaur mission integration system.

Minotaur is an open-architecture, government-owned system currently used on some US Navy and Customs and Border Protection aircraft to allow the Coast Guard to use the Department of Defense’s logistics including maintenance, training, and spare parts, resulting in lower life cycle costs.

The 7", 12", and 17" wide high bright panels are expected to enable multiple aircraft to share information from multiple sources, providing a never before seen level of air, land, and sea domain awareness.

Core Systems has delivered pre-production display panels for new aircraft so that they could incorporate the specialised equipment necessary to carry out Coast Guard missions.

Work included installation of radar, sensors, and other command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment, which enables the aircrew to collect and process surveillance information for transmission to shore and surface operators.

Minotaur will be the processor used to integrate such specialised systems, providing more awareness for a greater number of users.

Migration of Minotaur to an open architecture makes command, control, communications, and computer information upgrades more affordable and offers more control to the government.

The search for a standardised and supportable baseline mission system for Coast Guard aircraft became necessary due to increasing unavailability of major hardware components and software obsolescence issues with the existing mission system suite.

According to the company, the information obtained from fixed and mobile surveillance systems, ground sensors, imaging systems, and other advanced technologies augments situational awareness and better enables homeland security to detect, identify, monitor, and appropriately respond to threats in the country’s border regions.