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Article: United States: Northrop Grumman, Air Force Complete Preliminary Design Review of New B-2 Bomber Computer Architecture.
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- July 10, 2008
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The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman Corporation have successfully completed an incremental system design review of the new software and computing architecture that will manage B-2 stealth bomber missions for the next several decades.
Northrop Grumman is the Air Force's prime contractor for the B-2, the flagship of the nation's long range strike arsenal.
The new architecture defines standardized hardware and software interfaces that will allow the B-2's new integrated processing unit (IPU) to communicate, via a fiber network, with the aircraft's processing applications, both now and future. It provides the high-speed data ...