Microway Systems Inc. 193 Bloomfield, Outremont, Montreal www.microwaysystems.com

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Microway Systems Inc.193 Bloomfield, Outremont,
Montrealwww.microwaysystems.com

• Presenting the
• MHP EVV CONSORTIUM

December 4, 2003
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MHP External VV Consortium Proposal

• Building a team to provide External VV and
  real-time simulation-based testing for the
  Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP)

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Examples of VV contracts on large projects

• Governments encourage Independent VV on major
  projects
• Value-added External VV improve product safety,
  quality and save money

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External VV Consortium Offering

• Services for Maritime Helicopter Project
• External Validation and Verification (External
  VV)
• Real-time simulation-based testing
• Model-based engineering design
• Aircraft-in-the-loop testing
• Aerodynamics, wind engineering (ship-helicopter
  interactions) and in-flight-icing modeling and
  verification
• Products for Maritime Helicopter Project
• Avionics test-benches based on high-fidelity
  real-time simulation
• Real-time simulation software for COTS systems

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How External VV can help win contract

• Help meet DND Canadian content objectives
• Canadian content with high technical competency
• Builds Canadian expertise for future projects
  (MHP, F18, and Aurora upgrades, Strategic Heavy
  Lifter project)
• Reassure DND on system integrity
• 100 arms-length external VV auditor no
  conflict of interest
• Provide safety and technical assurance (as an
  external accounting audit provides financial
  confidence)
• Lower bid price
• Bidder can propose his own choice of auditing
  depth that would lower the VV cost compared to
  full-fledged IVV
• Consortiums advanced simulation technologies
  have a proven record of lowering cost and
  speeding development and certification
• Improve client satisfaction
• Enhanced safety assurance
• Virtual prototyping optimizes design to meet DND
  requirements
• Faster development and certification help meet
  delivery milestones

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Unique value-added offer
Value Added
Methodologies
Expertise
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Provide confidence to the DND on system integrity
Competent VV Organization audits quality of work
done by prime contractor and subcontractors
Microway
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Reduce the high cost of conventional IVV
HW and SW-in-the-loop model-based engineering
testing using unique simulation technologies and
services
Opal-RT, UTIAS
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Shorten delivery period for SW development, Speed
up certification
Inspection and software in the loop model-based
design (approach pioneered with Embraer,
comparing the results of actual controller with
the simulation results)
Microway, Opal-RT
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Improve flight and landing safety
Aerodynamics, wind, icing analysis
Microway, NTI, Opal-RT
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Increase satisfaction with final product

• Participation in design reviews
• System optimization based on high-fidelity
  dynamic simulation and virtual prototyping

Microway, Opal-RT
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Build Canadian expertise for use in future
projects

• PRIME retains IP of External VV, test
  methodologies and sim models
• Consortium maintains and extends Canadian
  expertise

External VV Consortium
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Conventional IVV organization

• Technically and managerially independent of both
  DND and the helicopter supplier
• Carries out independent analysis and testing
• Uses its own VV facilities and tools
• Covers any gaps in the helicopter suppliers VV
  and critical development processes
• With this additional vigilance, the IVV
  organization provides confidence to DND on the
  safety, integrity and performance of the software
  and of the system
• Typically very expensive
• For certain U.S. ballistic-missile procurements,
  the cost of IVV has equaled or exceeded the
  total software development cost
• Intellectual Property (IP) belongs to IVV
  organization and must be re-licensed or rebuilt
  for future projects

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Value-added External VV approach

• Still independent technically and managerially
  from the DND and the helicopter suppliers VV
  activities
• Proposes a different approach to External VV
• Audits supplier's VV philosophy, organizational
  structure, plans, procedures, facilities and
  tools to assess adequacy
• External VV Discrepancy Reports identify
  improvements to suppliers VV, ensuring that
  necessary safety-test procedures are developed
  and executed and that issues are made visible to
  DND
• Enhances suppliers VV with unique simulation
  methodologies, especially for avionics (upgraded
  often during the helicopter life cycle), feeds
  back simulation-test-bench to engineering cycle
• Otherwise uses DND or university-owned
  facilities, i.e. McGill, UTIAS
• Results as compared with conventional IVV
  organization
• Improved safety
• Reduced cost and faster delivery realized on
  first project
• Increased savings on future projects
• Optimized performance and to improve safety and
  user satisfaction

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Unique simulation methodologies

• Opal-RT Real-time and non-real-time simulation
  models
• Desktop Simulation Engineering analysis, design
• Engineering Simulator Ground Based Simulator
  checks aircraft handling qualities, failure cases
  and hazard level
• Iron Bird closed-loop simulation Tests the real
  hardware against the simulation (including
  Acceptance tests for avionic system release)
• Aircraft-in-the-loop simulation Cut time and
  cost and increase safety
• Newmerical Technologies International
• Aerodynamic performance and thermodynamic
  analysis
• CFD-based Icing analysis and air wake effects
  for landing and take-off from ships

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MHP External VV Consortium
MHP PRIME CONTRACTOR
External VV Consortium (100 CANADIAN)
NTI Aerodynamics, Wind, Icing Analysis Experts
Opal-RT Real-Time Simulation Experts
Microway Airworthiness and VV Experts
INFO-KIT Technologies e.Learning training
UTIAS ( U. of T. Inst. for Aerospace Studies)
Virtual Reality Experts
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Consortium experience

• Proven ability to perform to military standards
• Airborne products certification
• Data modeling, object-oriented design, systems
  engineering
• IVV, simulation, testing
• DO-178 B, DO-248, DO-254, ANSI/EIA 649 1998,
  MIL-STD-2167A, IEEE/EIA 12207.0-1996, IEEE/EIA
  12207.1-1997, SAE-ARP4761
• Specification writing, program management
• Provides unique technologies
• Cost-effective use of COTS hardware to accelerate
  engineering-test cycle using model-based
  methodology
• Faster, more accurate modeling using most
  advanced COTS mathematics software
• Rapid development, troubleshooting, verification
  and validation of aerodynamic, electromechanical,
  hydraulic systems, and their respective
  controllers for certification

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Consortium track record
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Introducing Microway

• Aerospace and avionics expertise
• Safety and IVV for the International Space
  Station Canadian Space Agency (1996-1999) IVV
  and SPA sub-contractor
• Sikorsky HH-53, Agusta-Bell AB-212, AB-412,
  Agusta A-109, A-129, Eurocopter TIGER
• Lockheed C-130 H Combat Talon, CP-140- Aurora
  Patrol Aircraft
• Airworthiness Delegation Airborne Equipment
  Certification BAE Systems and CMC Electronics
  (1999-2001)
• 2002-2003 DO-178B, DO 248 DO254 level A for the
  EMC 50 FADEC Operating System and Controller for
  aircraft Engines for GPECS of Goodrich
• Development and management of complex real-time
  software systems using state-of-the-art SW and HW
• Software Capability Maturity Model,
• Change management,
• TQM, JIT, Total System Intervention,
• Software quality

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Introducing Opal-RT
World leader in distributed and parallel
computation on off-the-shelf PC-based platforms,
Opal-RT supplies a unique technology that
empowers real-time solutions for simulation,
control, testing and related applications

• Parallel digital simulator systems
• General purpose parallel real-time simulators
• Aviation-specific simulators, block set and SW
  tools
• Aerospace engineering services
• System modeling
• Flight Controls Analysis
• Fly-by-wire Control Laws Design
• Handling Qualities Analysis
• Failure Hazard Analysis

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Opal-RT Simulators

• Electrical Engineering Simulator
• A Real-Time Simulator of power systems found in
  aircraft and other vehicles such as trains,
  ships, and off-highway and hybrid-electric
  vehicles.
• RT-LAB Rapid Prototyping Controller Software
  Integrator
• A modular real-time algorithm prototyping system
  based on industry standard bus architectures and
  network interfaces.
• Provides a pre-configured PC-based target for
  rapid prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop,
  real-time performance or the power of parallel
  processing.
• RT-LAB Test Flight
• An inexpensive "aircraft-in-a-box" simulator for
  testing avionics, hardware components and control
  code.
• RT-LAB UAV Engineering Simulator
• Takes your UAV concepts from model to operating
  in a real-time HLA federated simulation, smoothly
  and painlessly.

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Partial List of Opal-RT Customers

• Department of National Defense Canada
• DSO National Labs (Singapore Armed Forces),
• Embraer (Brazilian aircraft manufacturer for
  commercial and defense markets)
• Marintek (Norwegian Maritime Technology
  Institute, specializing in naval systems)
• Mechtronix Systems (flight-training devices)
• United Defense
• Pratt Whitney Canada
• Mannarino (aerospace control HIL test system)
• CS Communication (Gas turbine control HIL system)

More than 110 customersin automotive, electrical
systems, research center and universities
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Introducing NTI

• Newmerical Technologies Inc. provides expertise
  and technology in the following areas
• Aerodynamics
• Aerodynamic performance
• Thermodynamics of all systems
• Icing
• Rain, snow and ice effects on helicopter
• Performance at sea, in rain and ice storms
• Review of certification requirements, if any
• Database for simulators
• Real-time simulator CFD-based databases for
  flight and for icing
• Real-time simulator CFD-based databases for air
  wake effects for landing and take-off from ships

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NTI Customers Aerospace Icing
Merlo, Kanofsky Brinkmeier, Ltd.
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NTI Customers Wind Engineering
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Introducing INFO-KIT Technologies

• INFO-KIT Technologies provides services and
  technology in the following areas
• Authoring tool (Tactic!)
• Easy content development software
• SCORM and AICC compliant
• Learning Management System \ Learning Content
  Management System (eduZone)
• Courses creation
• Training management
• Skills management
• Competency management
• eLearning simulator (3DSEV)
• 3D simulator Web-based
• Linked with eduZone

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INFO-KIT Technologies Customers

• Department of National Defense Canada (Tactic!)
• Hydro-Québec (Tactic!)
• Gentilly Nuclear Power Plant (eduZone)
• Pratt Whitney Canada (Tactic!)
• Québec National School of Firefighting (eduZone
  and Tactic!)
• GE Hydro (Tactic! courses dev.)
• Marguerite-Bourgeoys School Board (eduZone 3D
  courses dev.)
• Integrated Performance Solution (eduZone)

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Conclusion

• Major projects require significant VV
  expenditure
• Value added External VV
• improve safety,
• improve product quality
• save time and money
• The proposed External VV consortium offers
• Unique 100 Canadian solution
• Unique advanced simulation technologies applied
  to External VV