Hunt Valley, Md. — MAY 23, 2012 — AAI Test & Training, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today the availability of a new electronic warfare (EW) threat file translator that will be integrated as a standard capability on its state-of-the-art Advanced Architecture Phase, Amplitude and Time Simulator (A²PATS) system. Customers can automate the transfer of their threat file libraries from legacy systems to A²PATS quickly and reliably, making the vast majority of the U.S. Navy’s existing simulator-derived files available on the new system. AAI Test & Training already has delivered its first translator-capable A²PATS system to a U.S. Navy customer.

“Our EW threat file translator preserves existing threat databases developed for legacy systems and formats them to operate directly in the Navy’s new A²PATS EW simulators,” says Senior Vice President and General Manager Robert Peters of AAI Test & Training. “This capability saves our customers...