The TacView is a ruggedized, night vision imaging system-compatible smart display designed for rapid and inexpensive installation in fixed and rotary wing aircraft. The TacView interfaces seamlessly with most aircraft data networks, and can often be installed without modification to the aircraft's legacy systems. TacView runs Microsoft XP compliant software, providing a wide range of options and capabilities to the aircrew. Designed for use in harsh environments, the TacView system increases situational awareness while decreasing crew workload. For CWID 2010, the TacView will host mission planning software and will display a moving map with an overlaid tactical situation picture using data acquired through an airborne data link. The TacView will also display remote UAV sensor video and will provide paperless cockpit functions. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics selected the TacView system to meet current and future C-130J mobile display system (MDS) requirements, to perform secure tactical data link communications and paperless cockpit operations enabling unprecedented situational awareness for the crew. CMC Electronics has supplied the TacView system to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) for its AC-130 gunship aircraft, and to BAE Systems for the U.S. Navy C-130T aircraft. For more information visit www.cmcelectronics.ca.
