San Diego Daily Transcript | December 22, 2009
San Diego-based Z Microsystems, a provider of mission-ready computing systems, announced last week it has received a $2 million order for rugged, high-performance workstations and data storage for a forward deployed airborne surveillance program used for tactical intelligence missions.
The program involves the collection of data by sensor-equipped aircraft. Workstations and data storage equipment supplied by Z Microsystems will support tactical intelligence collection, which includes facilitating accurate weapon targeting and identifying improvised explosive devices.
The military program is implementing Z Microsystems’ ZXL2 workstations and TranzPak 7 data storage devices.
The ZXL2 workstation is a low profile, rack mountable system with high-performance computing and graphics processing capabilities. The system is 3.45 inches (2U) high by 20 inches deep and supports up to three rugged hot–pluggable, removable drives, a slimline DVD-RW and a slimline floppy drive.
With the single docking station, the TranzPak 7 works like any removable drive, but its storage capacity allows more flexibility and efficiency in reproducing fielded settings in lab situation and vice versa. An operator can plug-in or remove an entire operating system, including programs and projects in any computer or storage system, in any location.