Location: ARLINGTON, VA Employees: 125 Sales and Investment to Date: $3,145,783

Company Background

SDS International is a Veteran-Owned Small Business that has extensive multi service experience with:

• Requirements, Acquisition, Planning, Training, Operations, Logistics, Test and Evaluation, Risk Management/Safety
• Multi-Service/Multi-Skill Resource Pool
• Active, Guard, Reserve, and Foreign Forces
• Joint Programs

SDS International Core Business Areas are:

• Education and Training Services
• Test and Evaluation Services
• Analytical and Technical Services
• PC-Based Simulation and Training Technologies

Innovative Technology Developed

Using SBIR contracts, SDS International developed a low-cost, high fidelity PC-based software Image Generator (IG) capable of producing real world imagery for future ultra high resolution projectors and successfully integrated this technology into the important work of the AFRL/HEA DMT test bed facility. Each SDS International A Acuity^TM DMT System provides state-of-the-art visuals simultaneously for eight visual channels and a sensor channel (Night Vision Goggle or Imaging Infrared) for less than $100,000 and can produce ultra high-resolution images of up to 5120 x 4096 pixels. The system architecture SDS International developed also improves scene realism while dramatically reducing cost. The need for PC-based software, hardware, databases, system maintenance, and upgrades are decreased by as much as 90% vs. legacy systems.

DoD Implementation and Commercialization Summary

Beginning in January 2003, AFRL began using SDS International's A Acuity^TM PC-IG on one of four, full field-of-view F-16 simulators during a scheduled training research exercise with Air Force Air Combat Command pilots. The exercise demonstrated that a state-of-the-art PC-based IG, operating on commercial-off-theshelf equipment, is fully capable of supporting warfighter training. This is an important accomplishment as it frees the Dept. of Defense from relying upon specialty, high-cost IG software and associated hardware to meet DMT needs in favor of PC-based IG software operating on commodity priced PCs. As a result, the government cannot only be hardware vendor independent, but also can upgrade hardware and improve capability at the same rapid rate as experienced in the commercial PC marketplace. Further, this PC revolution does not reduce fidelity, rather, it actually increases fidelity with high-resolution, photo-realistic, geo-specific terrains, realistic weather, lighting and special effects, all at significantly lower costs.

Contact Information

Edwin Bryan
SDS International
One Crystal Park - Suite 100
Arlington, VA 22202-3709
Phone: (407) 282-4432
Website: http://www.sdslink.com/
Email: ebryan@sdslink.com