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We’ve leveraged a legacy of successes in digital airborne intercommunications applications to develop FireComm®, a family of Intercommunications System (ICS) equipment for both commercial and military aircraft. |
FireComm has been selected as the ICS of choice for multiple U.S. and international military fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Using state-of-the-art digital processing techniques and controls, and having the ability to mix and match fully qualified components, FireComm is quickly adapted to the optimum ICS configuration for a wide range of aircraft and missions. Today, we are under contract to develop a fully certified, secure wireless ICS system. This system will enhance the FireComm and other existing aircraft intercommunications systems with features that allow crew members to freely and securely communicate, using all aircraft communication assets, in tactical environments at ranges up to 1 km separation from the aircraft.
We have also developed digital processors and high-speed data bus input/output devices used on a variety of military aircraft.
For more than 15 years, we have supplied system and weapons processors for attack helicopters flown by the U.S. and allied nations. Technology developed for these processors was further enhanced to derive the Data Concentrator Unit (DCU), a high-speed data bus input/output device that is included in the new CAAS cockpit used on multiple aircraft. Most recently, we developed the Aircraft Interface Unit (AIU) for the next-generation attack helicopter. The AIU is a smaller and faster version of the DCU, providing weight and cost savings, as well as distributed data collection and concentration. Both the DCU and AIU are easily configurable through software-driven tables, and have been adapted to many current aircraft with little or no changes to the hardware.
Another noteworthy product is the ARINC 629 Current Mode Coupler used in the main fly-by-wire serial data bus for many commercial aircraft. SCI developed the ARINC 629 coupler in the mid 1990s and continues to produce and deliver more than 200 units per month.
