GenDyn Canada delivers fast-time analysis system for CP-140s

OTTAWA, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Canada's military has received the first of three fast-time analysis systems from General Dynamics Canada for use on CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft.

The portable system gives ground crews immediate access to post-flight analysis of acoustic data for confirming and classifying targets.

"This time-critical access to recorded acoustic data supports command-level decision making as target identities are confirmed, classified and characterized in the field," said David Ibbetson, vice president, General Dynamics C4 Systems International. "The (system's) replay capability, at speeds more than eight times faster than normal, enables mission reconstruction and debriefing as well as providing the opportunity for onsite crew training immediately following missions."

The system in Canada is called the Deployable Modular VME Acoustic Signal Processor Post Processing and Archiving System but will be sold abroad as the Acoustic Replay & Intelligence Exploitation System, or ARIES.

It is part of a modernization program for the CP-140, a maritime surveillance aircraft from Lockheed Martin, which is based on the P-3 Orion.