By: dl

Military & Aerospace Electronics reports that Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has tapped Aitech Defense Systems Inc. to supply board-level components for the instrument avionics flight computer and command telemetry computer of the Ares I launch vehicle, specifically a CompactPCI SBC and Gbit Ethernet PMC.

MAE cites Randall Coffey, Ball Aerospace ARES IAU program manager, to the effect that “Using Aitech’s components has allowed the program to advance several notches up the technology scale and will save significant amounts of development costs.”

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