GEC and Finmeccanica sign joint venture deal

Article Abstract:

GEC-Marconi and Finmeccanica have agreed to merge their activities in the areas of missiles, land-based and naval radar, air traffic control, command and control systems, and simulation and training. The joint venture, Alenia Marconi Systems NV, will be incorporated in the Netherlands for tax purposes, but will have its headquarters in Chelmsford and Rome. The new company, which will have combined annual sales of almost 1 billion pound-sterling, will have for its chief executive officer Peter Brown, currently managing director of GEC-Marconi Radar & Defence Systems.

Netherlands, Joint ventures, Organizational history, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Missiles, Military Command & Control Systems, Radar Systems & Equip, Command and control systems, Radar, Finmeccanica S.p.A., GEC-Marconi, Article, Alenia Marconi Systems NV

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Mandator ITS supplies simulators to Warsaw Fire Training School

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Mandator ITS, one of the world's leading suppliers of various types of simulators, is set to deliver the TYR simulation system to the Fire Training School in Warsaw, Poland, in May 2000. The TYR system, which will be used to train fire officers and crew, has been customized to meet Polish fire training requirements. It provides relistic training exercises, with varying levels of difficulty.

Contracts & orders received, Poland

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Virtual combat convoy training

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The vulnerability of resupply convoys to ambushes by insurgents and terrorist groups is one of the most sobering and unpalatable lessons stemming from the ongoing operations in Iraq. Realistic training for convoy duties can be implemented through a very extensive recourse to simulation and virtual reality systems as an indispensable preliminary phase to live-fire training and exercises.

Iraq, Usage, Technology application, Synthetic training devices, Virtual reality, Military personnel, Virtual reality technology, Military training

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