Lockheed Martin UK Selects Enea's Database Management Systems for Merlin Helicopter

Lockheed Martin UK Selects Enea's Database Management Systems for Merlin
Helicopter

Enea's Polyhedra RDBMS to Provide Real-Time Data Management for Large-Screen
Tactical Displays

Stockholm, Sweden, and Birmingham, UK - Embedded Systems Show, October 17, 2007
- Enea (Nordic Exchange/SmallCap/ENEA), a world leading provider of network
software and services, today announced that Lockheed Martin UK has selected its
Polyhedra™ database management system for use in the Merlin Capability
Sustainment Program (MCSP). Polyhedra will be used to provide reliable,
real-time data storage and management for the Merlin Helicopter's Tactical
Mission Computer (TMC) System.

“We selected Polyhedra for incorporation within the Tactical Management Computer
Software after conducting a trade study that considered the benefits of several
COTS databases,” said Lockheed Martin UK's Jeff Goddard. “Polyhedra provided the
performance and functionality we were looking for in a real time database, the
product meets our needs, and integration within our system was cost effective
and straightforward.”

“As avionics software becomes more complex, developers are finding it
increasingly more difficult to provide reliable, high-performance data
management using home-grown solutions,” said Virginia Walker, senior vice
president of corporate strategy and marketing at Enea. “Polyhedra gives avionics
developers a full-featured RDBMS solution that delivers a unique blend of
real-time performance and fault-tolerance in an easy-to-integrate COTS package.
With Polyhedra handling the database management, Lockheed Martin UK's design
team can get a head start on the application development process.” 

Lockheed Martin UK serves as the prime contractor for MCSP, a multiyear project
to upgrade the weapon system in the Royal Navy's Merlin helicopter. The
project's mission is to utilize open systems technology to reduce
full-life-cycle cost of ownership, facilitate technology refresh and insertion,
and substantially improve the helicopter's mission system display and
radar/sonar capabilities. The first flight of the upgraded helicopter is planned
for 2010.

The MCSP will examine all aspects of the weapon system, including ground support
and control. Merlin's man-machine interface will receive particular emphasis,
with developers seeking to make it more versatile and intuitive, reduce operator
workload, and facilitate simultaneous control over multiple and diverse
functions.

Polyhedra will be used in flight on Freescale PowerPC-based systems, running
atop the INTEGRITY real-time operating system from Green Hills Software.
Polyhedra will store dynamic, mission-relevant data, utilizing its replica
mechanism to disseminate that data to a number of tactical mission systems. The
replica databases, in turn, will utilize Polyhedra's active query facility to
keep their local operator screens updated.

Polyhedra is an active SQL RDBMS that provides a persistent, fault-tolerant,
high-performance data repository for embedded systems applications. Featuring a
small code footprint, Polyhedra uses a memory-resident design that boosts
performance by up to an order of magnitude relative to conventional disk- and
flash-based RDBMSs. Polyhedra's active, event-driven technology makes databases
more robust, simplifies applications and en¬hances performance. Polyhedra also
offers features like journaling and fault-tolerant mechanisms (i.e., failover
control and fast reconnection) that ensure data persistence and enhance system
availability.

Polyhedra's unique active query mechanism allows applications to be kept up to
date without the need for applications to poll the server (to detect changes).
Because the client application is told precisely what has changed, the
application need not refresh its queries. Moreover, there is a built-in
mechanism for throttling back the update rate if changes occur more rapidly than
the client can process them. This all leads to a responsive system with low
latency data distribution, and good scalability with graceful degradation in
times of peak load. The replica mechanism allows data to be localized for
performance, and also offloads the query load from the master database.

Enea Press Contacts:

North America:
Tom Hayes
Enea
Vice president of corporate marketing
Phone: + 1 480 753 9200
Email: tom.hayes@enea.com

Heidi Rosenberg
Nadel Phelan, Inc.
Sr. account manager 
Phone: + 1 831 440 2405
Email: heidi@nadelphelan.com

Europe:
Benedicte Bissey
Enea
Marketing communications manager, Europe
Phone: +33 1 69 18 14 47
Email: benedicte.bissey@enea.com

Asia Pacific:
Marcus Hjortsberg
Enea
Vice president of software sales, Asia
Phone: +86 21 6334 3406
Email: marcus.hjortsberg@enea.com

About Enea 
Enea is the leading supplier of real-time operating systems, middleware,
development tools, database technology and professional services for
high-availability systems such as telecommunications infrastructure, mobile
devices, medical instrumentation, and automobile control/infotainment. Enea's
flagship operating system, OSE is deployed in approximately half of the world's
3G mobile phones and base stations. Enea has over 500 employees and is listed on
the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm AB (ticker ENEA).
Enea, OSE, OSEck, OSE epsilon, Element, Polyhedra, Optima, LINX, Enea
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