Rockwell Digital Quartz Inertial Navigation Unit delivered to Alliant Techsystems for Outrider Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Business Wire, Sept 17, 1996

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1996--Rockwell's first DQI-Navigation Processor (NP) for the Outrider Unmanned Aerial Vehicle program was delivered to Alliant Techsystems, Hopkins, Minn., just five weeks after contract award to support early integration and flnaissance requirements for a UAV that can fly onom a quartz substrate," said Robert D. Paster, pre sident of Autonetics and Missile Systems Division, the Rockwell unit leading the effort.

"This simple, small, and reliable digital quartz-based IMU represents a significanthe inertial sensing technologies currently in production, the DQI and its derivatives are also ideal for tactical missiles, smart weapons, munitions and artillery pr the various needs of a multitude of customers, both military and commercial. The MIGITS products can be prglobal defense and commercial markets.

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