December 21, 2022
Since the beginning of the year, it has received orders in the amount of approximately 14.5 million dollars for airborne communication and audio management systems. Won in 2020 the competition to develop the audio system for the new F-16 aircraft
In the photo above: the American KC-135 refueling plane is equipped with Orbit’s communication and audio management systems
Orbit company from Netanya (Orbit Technologies) received orders from Airbus in the amount of approximately 4 million dollars for the supply of airborne digital communication and audio management systems, which will be delivered in the years 2030-2023. The company will provide the ADAMS systems intended for use in large mission aircraft. The solution combines the audio and data routing among various staff members, including the maintenance, technicians and the communication and recording systems of the plane. The ADAMS system is a kind of internal and discreet intercom that supports up to 20 users with full capabilities and up to 8 users with intercom capabilities only. It includes 16 radios, 31 receivers and 6 recording ports.
Last week the company reported on a strategic deal in the field of airborne audio systems: an American aircraft manufacturer placed an order in the amount of 2.6 million dollars for the supply of digital audio management systems from the AMS family, which were developed for a fighter plane used by the US Air Force. The systems will be delivered to the customer during 2023-2024. This is actually a follow-up order to the customer’s previous order, in the amount of approximately 1.2 million dollars.
AMS systems are based on the company’s Dual IP Ring topology, and provide three-dimensional audio capability, adaptive noise reduction according to environmental conditions, redundancy and adaptability to aircraft of any size, civil and military. This topology is based on an internal Ethernet network built in a double-ring configuration, where each user unit includes all its necessary processing resources and transmits the information in two directions simultaneously. That is, there is no single central unit that manages the entire network.
The growing field of communication and audio systems
In the first nine months of 2022, Orbit’s sales totaled approximately $42.6 million, compared to sales of approximately $38.9 million in the same period last year. The company is under the control of the Fimi Fund and is traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange with a market value of approximately 452 million shekels. Although the company’s main market is in the field of wireless communication and tracking systems, the field of audio systems is growing.
In April, it received an order from the US Air Force to supply audio systems in the amount of approximately 3.2 million dollars for KC-135 aircraft (pictured above), and in September, it received an order from an American aircraft manufacturer to develop a new audio system, in the total amount of approximately 4.7 million dollars. In August 2020, the company reported winning a competition to develop a 3D audio system for the next generation of communication and audio systems in Lockheed Martin’s 16-F aircraft, which chose Orbit’s Orion system. The two signed a framework agreement for the development and production of the system in an estimated amount of about 46 million dollars.
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