CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodrich
Corporation (NYSE: GR) has signed a teaming agreement with UK-based
Knowledge Network Konsulting (KNK) Ltd. This agreement will
enable Goodrich's Malvern, UK operation to collaborate with the KNK
team in developing effective and comprehensive solutions to meet
future intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
requirements.
Goodrich is a global provider of proven intelligence
exploitation systems for the military while KNK is an innovative
provider of intelligence management and decision support software.
The integration of the two companies' software capabilities
brings together the expertise required to develop a total ISR
solution that offers: requirements generation and tasking;
collection and fusion of information from multiple sources; and
assessed decision-support outputs. These solutions are fully
compliant with both NATO and Coalition Shared Database (CSD)
standards.
Sam Macleod, managing director
Goodrich's ISR Systems business explained, "We recently
demonstrated the operational benefits gained from this teaming
arrangement to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) at Empire Challenge
(EC) – 2011. The software capability we demonstrated at EC-11
combined the open source, open standards philosophy of iNTOOL with
the standards and compliance expertise of the Goodrich CSD.
This was a critical demonstration of the operation of a
national specialized intelligence process coherently within a
coalition environment."
Mark Nash, concepts director at
KNK added, "Embracing data collection and exploitation activities
within a managed and auditable process will enable commanders to
make quicker decisions with increased confidence."
Goodrich and KNK look forward to working as a team to provide
enhanced ISR support to defense forces in the UK and worldwide.
KNK Ltd, based in Andover, UK, provides intelligence and
decision support applications. A young and dynamic player in
the world of defense, KNK brings innovative ideas and clear
approaches to intelligence challenges faced by governments and
militaries. KNK Ltd has delivered and supported iNTOOL, an
ISR support tool, on operations in Afghanistan.
Goodrich Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a global
supplier of systems and services to the aerospace and defense
industries. With one of the most strategically diversified
portfolios of products in the industry, Goodrich serves a global
customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and service
facilities. For more information visit
http://www.goodrich.com.
Goodrich Corporation operates through its divisions and as a
parent company for its subsidiaries, one or more of which may be
referred to as "Goodrich Corporation" in this press release.
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