Commander's Tactical Workstation (CTW-17)
(CTW-17 front view) |
(CTW-17 back view) |
The DRS Commander’s Tactical Workstation (CTW) provides commanders and crew with a single point of access to platform systems and sensors enabling the concurrent display of graphical, text and video data from a number of different on and off platform sources. For example, on a fighting vehicle the commander and crew can access the battle map (BMS) application, driver’s viewer, primary thermal imager and weapon system concurrently. By doing so, it is possible to improve decision making effectiveness and significantly reduce the number of separate display devices required on the platform. For complex environments, a number of CTW’s can be linked together to configure a multi-display workstation capable of handling and displaying a wide range of data and video types.
The CTW has an embedded frame grabber providing the ability to provide picture-in-picture presentation of data and video. Input and control of the displayed data is by means of keyboard, side bezel keys, touch screen or a combination of all three.
Communications is via dual gigabit Ethernet, MilCan, USB, serial interfaces and, depending on the nature of the platform and applications and interfaces of interest, discrete digital and analogue I/O to weapon systems and other platform sub-systems.
The CTW can also host DRS’s embedded vehicle HUMS diagnostic system with its interfaces to engine ECU’s, weapon systems and other sub-systems, in order to provide a real-time condition based maintenance capability.
The CTW is modular by design and can be tailored to match specific processing and communications requirements. |
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