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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 107 - Boulder - March 2011
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Research Institutions, Industry and University Reports 4.2.2 Research Institutions and Companies 4.2.2.1 Athena
Title	Athena
Presenter	Vlad Gavrilets
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Abstract	Athena Technologies, after acquisition by Rockwell Collins in April 2008, has been renamed Rockwell Collins Control Technologies (RCCT). RCCT has continued expansion beyond its core business of providing guidance, navigation, and control systems for unmanned aircraft into several other areas: engine control units, azimuth determination and tracking units for ground-based far target locators, FAA-certified cockpit avionics for manned aircraft and helicopters, and precise GPS positioning. Presentation features several new RCCT products on the market. In the original core business, RCCT successfully completed its Damage Tolerant Flight Control on an operational UAV; exceeded 1,000,000 flight hours in theater with its Athena product line of integrated flight control, navigation, and vehicle management systems; and completed over 200 flight hours on its new low-cost triplex redundant flight control system. This system is based on triplex redundant Athena units, used for state vector estimation, and a newly designed General Purpose Computer (GPC1000), a ruggedized industrial computer with expansive I/O, used for flight control calculations and redundancy management.