Mountain Secure Systems to Supply Removable Data Storage Solution for Lockheed Martin’s Legion Pod Program

April 21, 2020

Mountain Secure Systems (MSS), a leading developer of ruggedized electronic equipment and solutions for use in the commercial/military aerospace and heavy equipment industries, is pleased and proud to announce that it has received an initial order from Lockheed Martin, Orlando, FL, for removable data storage drives as part of Lockheed Martin’s new Legion Pod program.

“We are very excited to have been chosen by Lockheed Martin to supply a removable data storage drive solution for the Legion Pod program,” said Rod Copeland, Director of Technical Sales for MSS. “We have always had a collaborative relationship with Lockheed Martin and have been delivering hardware for more than 12 years for the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, so we were able to leverage our success in that program and develop a removable data storage product for the Legion Pod.”

The Legion Pod is a multi-function sensor system that supports collaborative targeting operations in radar-denied flying environments. Specifically, the Legion Pod features the IRST21 Sensor System that enables high-fidelity detection and tracking of air-to-air targets.

MSS’s contribution to this program is the dual-drive model of its Sawatch Series removable data storage drive with 500 GB of data storage. The Sawatch is a rugged, serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) memory device that is rated for 100,000 insertion cycles. The drive is in an environmentally sealed enclosure that protects it against rapid decompression, electromagnetic interference (EMI), humidity, dust, salt fog, immersion and condensation buildup.

One of the Sawatch’s most significant features is that it can be readily modified to fit the user’s unique configuration specifications. This allowed Lockheed Martin to work with MSS to design a data storage drive that includes all the functionality that is needed for the Legion Pod to perform reliably in all scenarios.

Lockheed Martin recently entered the low-rate initial production (LRIP) phase for the Legion Pod program and MSS has supplied 30 modified Sawatch removable data storage drives for flight testing.

For more information on Mountain Secure Systems and its complete portfolio of removable data storage drives and other ruggedized electronics for use in the commercial/military aerospace, and heavy equipment industries please visit mountainsecuresystems.com.