A Software Solution to Aging Analog Devices:

On contract with TRW, AdaRose developed, prototyped and demonstrated an artillery gun laying system software design intended to improve the reliability and life cycle cost of the M109A6 Paladin Automatic Fire Control System (AFCS) gun servo system. The improvement included substituting inertial navigation system rate data for the rate data currently being supplied by the Azimuth and Elevation tachometers. The current tachometers are analog devices and are experiencing high failure rates in the field. The prototype software was successfully demonstrated and resulted in a follow-on task to provide a fieldable version of this prototype effort.