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When the first Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) F-35 Lightning
II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, rolls off the production
line and delivers in 2010, it will feature a full array of
sophisticated military technology. Pilots and technicians operating
and maintaining the F-35 will be supported by Joint-Service Technical
Data (JTD) Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM) authored in
a highly sophisticated technical documentation system. The Virtually
Integrated System for Technical Data Authoring Tool Suite (VISTA) was
a collaborative developmental effort between Lockheed Martin
Aeronautics Co. and Innodata Isogen.
As the Air System Contractor (ASC), Lockheed Martin leads a task
force of aerospace and defense companies in the development of three
variants of the F-35. The first of the variants, the conventional
takeoff and landing (CTOL), took its inaugural flight December 15,
2006. The three variants of the next-generation fighter will become
the primary aircraft for three U.S. Armed Forces branches, Air Force,
Navy and Marine Corps, along with eight allied countries, including
Great Britain, the Netherlands and Italy. The first F-35's will enter
the United States Marine Corps initial operational capability (IOC) in
2012, with subsequent IOC schedules for delivery to the Navy and the
United States Air Force shortly thereafter.
The F-35 VISTA Authoring Tool Suite is an advanced technical
documentation system that integrates management workflows, digital
asset management tools, user interfaces and a host of supporting
applications. The system provides data for pilots and maintainers,
current, detailed, configuration specific user-interactive access to
F-35 IETM's.
VISTA supplies the tools to develop, deliver and manage large
volumes of JTD in XML format. It provides collaborative remote
authoring capabilities to support F-35 team members; Northrop Grumman
in California, Pratt and Whitney in Connecticut and other key team
partners located outside of the Fort Worth LM AERO facility. F-35 JTD
is delivered via the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) for
worldwide distribution to the end-user in a web-enabled environment.
The Innodata Isogen / Lockheed Martin technical data team
recognized the challenges associated with the development of a system
to support multiple F-35 variants and unique hardware and software
modifications for each customer. While most of the F-35's features are
common across three air vehicle platforms, each F-35 configuration,
military branch or international partner will require unique technical
data support.
"A key feature to F-35 VISTA is the technical data applicability
model, managing unique configuration / maturity differences for each
F-35," said Kate McDonald, VP of Innodata Isogen's Aerospace & Defense
practice. "This model supports the reuse of technical data and helps
F-35's Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) Supportability
System provide end users with configuration-specific data on demand at
the point of use."
To achieve that goal, Innodata Isogen deployed a Content
Management System (CMS) that manages structured documents and supports
collaborative data creation among various work groups. As a next step,
the team integrated a Digital Asset Manager (DAM) with the CMS to
manage the large volume of graphics, multi-media, and standard
re-useable library items. This also included a link management
application that ensures link integrity between multiple modules and
related training materials.
Finally, the Innodata Isogen and Lockheed Martin technical data
team developed an integrated workflow application to create and track
processes for creating, authoring, reviewing and delivering content
for the F-35 IETM's. F-35 VISTA bundles together all components and
makes them transparent to end users, enabling authors and engineers to
create data, incorporate links, make editorial changes and then
publish that within a single set of interfaces.
Team leaders from Innodata Isogen will deliver a presentation on
F-35 VISTA Authoring Tool Suite at the Aerospace Industry Association
(AIA) Joint Services Technical Publications Workshop in Clearwater
Beach, Florida, on May 10, 2007.
ABOUT INNODATA ISOGEN
Innodata Isogen (NASDAQ: INOD) helps organizations create, manage
and distribute information more effectively and economically,
providing a comprehensive range of content-focused IT and BPO services
to solve information management and publishing challenges. Innodata
Isogen is headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, just outside of New
York City. The company has two additional solution centers in North
America, seven production facilities in Asia (the Philippines, India
and Sri Lanka) and a technology and tools development center in India.
Innodata Isogen (www.innodata-isogen.com) is named to both
EContent magazine's EContent 100 and KMWorld magazine's 100 Companies
That Matter In Knowledge Management. KMWorld also recognized the
unique value of Innodata Isogen's comprehensive content supply chain
solutions in its Trend-Setting Products of 2006 annual honors. In
addition, Innodata Isogen was also recently ranked as a leading
provider of specialized BPO services by the International Association
of Outsourcing Professionals (IOAP) on its annual Global Outsourcing
100 top list.
This release contains forward-looking statements that are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "project," "head start,"
"believe," "expect," "should," "anticipate," "indicate," "point to"
and other similar expressions generally identify forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of their dates.
These forward-looking statements are based largely on the
company's current expectations, and are subject to a number of risks
and uncertainties, including without limitation, the primarily at-will
nature of the Company's contracts with its customers and the ability
of customers to reduce, delay or terminate projects, depressed market
conditions, changes in external market factors, the ability and
willingness of the company's clients and prospective clients to
execute business plans which give rise to requirements for digital
content and professional services in knowledge processing, difficulty
in integrating and deriving synergies from acquisitions, potential
undiscovered liabilities of companies that Innodata Isogen acquires,
changes in the company's business or growth strategy, the emergence of
new or growing competitors, various other competitive and
technological factors, and other risks and uncertainties indicated
from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Actual results could differ materially from the results referred
to in the forward-looking statements. In light of these risks and
uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the results referred to
in the forward-looking statements contained in this release will
occur.
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