ANCS (Advanced Naval Combat System) is a COTS based naval combat system produced by EADS, Ulm, Germany. EADS currently have a contract to install ANCS on board the Finnish Navy Rauma class off shore patrol boats (known as S2000). The system has a comprehensive air defence and ASuW capability.

Each Ship’s System comprises 6 Multi-Function Operator Consoles, 2 Systems Cabinets, a Large Screen Display, Projector and Printer. The Systems Cabinets provide the interfaces to the Ship’s weapon systems and sensors, performing all the processing and data, video and radar distribution. The overall system is connected together via a fibre-optic based dual Ethernet LAN and is backed up by the UPS located in the Cabinets.

All electronics is selected from standard State of the Art COTS products enabling an off the shelf Linux Operating System to be employed. Ultra also provide the System Start-up and BITE functionality in addition to the CORBA Infrastructure providing proxy software interfaces to a number of the Ships interfaces.

Ultra offers a system engineering service to EADS designing, defining and supplying all the computer hardware and software infrastructure to meet EADS requirements.

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