Sostar GmbH Develops New Surveillance System
Million-Euro Order for the new European Radar Generation
Friedrichshafen, 17 December 2001
The European company Sostar GmbH, headquartered in Friedrichshafen at Dornier GmbH premises, was awarded the contract to develop the demonstrator of the new European all-weather ground surveillance system Sostar (Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar).
Sostar GmbH, founded in February 2001, is a joint venture in which EADS/Dornier, FIAR of Galileo Avionica and Thales Airborne Systems each hold 28 per cent, Indra 11 per cent and Fokker Space 5 per cent.
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The contract (order volume of 85 million Euro) for the development, manufacturing and testing of the demonstrator Sostar-X was awarded to Sostar GmbH by the Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB), acting on behalf of the Governments of France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, and Germany, following the final approval of the Governments Memorandum of Understanding by the Budget Committee of the Bundestag (Lower House of the Federal Parliament) on 12 December 2001.
Dr. Eugen Herpfer, General Manager of Sostar GmbH said: "The Sostar programme combines the technical capabilities in radar technology of competent European partner industries and will ensure the competitiveness and the related know-how for future European Surveillance systems".
Sostar meets the operational requirements for the Nato Alliance Ground Surveillance Programme and is offered to Nato and European Nations to cover their urgent needs for surveillance of large areas for crisis and conflict management. The objective is to develop complete systems based on an advanced radar with Active Electronically Scanned Array which can be installed on manned and unmanned airborne platforms and which allows detection and tracking of slow moving targets and high resolution imaging of fixed targets as well as target classification.
Friedrichshafen, December 17, 2001/04301
For further information:
Dornier GmbH
Michael Hartwig, tel. ++7545-8-9124, fax: -8-5888
E-Mail: michael.hartwig@dornier.eads.net
