Lynux­Works Selected as Embed­ded Oper­at­ing Sys­tem Ven­dor for Army’s Future Com­bat Sys­tems Pro­gram; LynxOS-178 Embed­ded Oper­at­ing Sys­tem Deliv­ers Linux Binary Com­pat­i­bil­ity and POSIX Con­for­mance to Ensure Appli­ca­tion Porta­bil­ity and Interoperability

SAN JOSE, Calif. –(Busi­ness Wire)– April 11, 2005 — Lynux­Works ™ Inc. today announced it was cho­sen as the embed­ded oper­at­ing sys­tem ven­dor by Gen­eral Dynam­ics Advanced Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems for the U.S. Army’s Future Com­bat Sys­tems (FCS) program’s Inte­grated Com­puter Sys­tem (ICS). Under terms of the con­tract, Lynux­Works’ Linux®-compatible LynxOS-178® safety crit­i­cal real-time oper­at­ing sys­tem (RTOS) will be used to meet the per­for­mance and reli­a­bil­ity needs of the FCS, a fam­ily of advanced, net­worked air– and ground-based mil­i­tary sys­tems for use by the Army’s Future Force.

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As the com­mand, con­trol, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, com­put­ing, intel­li­gence, sur­veil­lance and recon­nais­sance (C4ISR) infra­struc­ture used across all FCS plat­forms, Gen­eral Dynam­ics’ ICS will pro­vide com­puter pro­cess­ing, net­work­ing, infor­ma­tion assur­ance, and data stor­age resources nec­es­sary to sup­port the network-centric oper­a­tions of FCS.

A Linux-compatible, open stan­dards oper­at­ing sys­tem is required to meet the Army’s needs for real-time infor­ma­tion and safety-criticality. Lynux­Works enables devel­op­ers to eas­ily move FCS appli­ca­tions between those that have been devel­oped for stan­dard Linux envi­ron­ments and those tar­geted for embed­ded RTOS plat­forms with no costly or lengthy port­ing process. In addi­tion, FCS’s devel­op­ers can uti­lize Lynux­Works’ Lumi­nos­ity, a Linux, Win­dows® and Solaris™-based inte­grated devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment (IDE) pow­ered by the open source Eclipse IDE plat­form, giv­ing devel­op­ers com­plete con­trol over cre­at­ing, edit­ing, com­pil­ing, man­ag­ing and debug­ging C/C++, Ada and Java embed­ded and real-time applications.

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Lynux­Works offers cus­tomers a com­plete fam­ily of Linux ABI– (appli­ca­tion binary inter­face) com­pat­i­ble embed­ded oper­at­ing sys­tems — from its Blue­Cat® Linux to its flag­ship LynxOS® and LynxOS-178 RTOSes. This unique approach enables cus­tomers to pro­tect their invest­ment and avoid the high cost-barriers and time-to-market penal­ties that chang­ing embed­ded oper­at­ing sys­tems nor­mally incurs. In addi­tion, Lynux­Works offers the tech­no­log­i­cal flex­i­bil­ity needed in demand­ing network-centric war­fare pro­grams such as FCS by offer­ing a range of real-time per­for­mance, safety crit­i­cal­ity, and open source options with a com­mon set of open stan­dards APIs, devel­op­ment tools and world-class con­sult­ing services.

“Open stan­dards are crit­i­cal to the archi­tec­tural approach of the ICS,” said Bob Mor­ris, vice pres­i­dent of sales and mar­ket­ing, Lynux­Works. “With Linux binary com­pat­i­bil­ity and POSIX con­for­mance, Lynux­Works’ LynxOS-178 will help facil­i­tate the afford­able, rapid deploy­ment of advanced tech­nol­ogy to increase inter­op­er­abil­ity across the FCS program.”

A Uni­fied Platform

The FCS pro­gram is mov­ing toward Linux con­for­mant devel­op­ment to cre­ate one com­mon, uni­fied Army plat­form for var­i­ous appli­ca­tions and ser­vices. With the use of POSIX con­for­mant and Linux com­pat­i­ble soft­ware, the Army has enhanced flex­i­bil­ity, as well as assur­ance that future tech­nol­ogy inser­tions and enhance­ments occur seamlessly.

“This con­tract not only rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone for our com­pany but also for the open stan­dard embed­ded soft­ware move­ment,” said Dr. Inder Singh, CEO and chair­man of Lynux­Works. “Linux is rapidly becom­ing the lead­ing de-facto open stan­dard embed­ded plat­form in both mil­i­tary and com­mer­cial sys­tems requir­ing a high degree of inter­op­er­abil­ity and soft­ware reuse. Our unique prod­uct strat­egy pro­vides com­mon Linux com­pat­i­ble and POSIX con­for­mant soft­ware inter­faces across our entire tech­nol­ogy port­fo­lio as well as a sin­gle com­mon Eclipse-based devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment, all of which pro­vide a pow­er­ful solu­tion for network-centric war­fare pro­grams across mil­i­tary ser­vices. I am con­fi­dent that Lynux­Works will con­tinue to meet the unique needs for next-generation defense systems.”

About Gen­eral Dynam­ics Advanced Infor­ma­tion Systems

Gen­eral Dynam­ics Advanced Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems, head­quar­tered in Arling­ton, Va., is a lead­ing provider of trans­for­ma­tional mis­sion solu­tions in com­mand, con­trol, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and com­put­ers, intel­li­gence, sur­veil­lance and recon­nais­sance. Cus­tomers include those in the defense, intel­li­gence, home­land secu­rity and home­land defense com­mu­ni­ties. More infor­ma­tion is avail­able on the Inter­net at www.gd-ais.com.