Indigenous Solutions for Defence & Space & Aviation by SDT
Space & Defence Technologies Inc. (SDT) is a privately owned Turkish company operating in Turkish defence sector and conducting high technology software and hardware development & system production. SDT’s operation is run according to internationally accepted engineering, quality assurance, configuration management and program management standards like ISO 9001:2008, IEEE 12207, IEEE 1220, MIL-STD-498 and MIL-ST-973, PMI handbook and various other internationally recognized standards. SDT Space & Defence Technologies Inc. has been developing indigenous software and hardware products and integrated solutions for Defence, Space and Aviation area since February 2005. SDT’s facilities are located at Middle East Technical University (METU) Techno polis Area in Ankara, Turkey.
High Technologies of Product Range
SDT is specialized in certain areas like Radar-EW signal processing, image processing/pattern recognition, embedded software/systems, satellite technologies and related simulation & modeling systems and has a variety of products in these areas like Airborne Digital Data Recorders, Airborne Moving Map Computers, Airborne Data Acquisition Equipment, Airborne Video Symbol Generation Computers, Video Multiplexing Units, Missile Launcher Control Systems, System Solutions on Synthetic Aperture Radar Technologies, System solutions on Electronic Warfare Signal Analysis Systems, Automatic Target Recognition Software based on high resolution satellite images, Geospatial Intelligence Management Systems, Embedded Training Systems for sensors and missiles, tactical environment simulation software and 3D visual models and services like ruggedization of industrial electronics units for military conditions and electronics card & unit production.
SAR & EW Capabilities
SDT has embedded real time software development capability under various software development environments for avionics and electronic units and also for sensors like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. SDT has also high level software development capability for applications like image processing & exploitation, image archiving, dissemination and service request management for satellite imagery, geospatial intelligence management functions, mission planning and sensor & weapon simulations and tactical environment simulation.
Investment of R&D
SDT’s on-going R & D efforts capability resulted qualified military electronics products and high technology remote sensing applications. SDT has also been developing various simulation and modelling applications, concentrated on embedded simulation applications, visual modelling, tactical environment simulation and sensor simulations. It has expanded its technological base especially in (i) sensor signal and image processing applications in airborne platforms, UAVs and satellites, (ii) military mission electronics equipment and (iii) also simulation & modelling applications in the local market and would like to offer these products and capabilities also to the export market. Our advantage both in Turkish market and export market are that our products utilize new technologies. As the company structure and objectives,we are a product focused company rather than project focused company also our products are cost effective with high performance.
Reliable Partner of Domestic and International Market
SDT is very well recognized by SSM (Undersecretariat for Turkish Defence Industries) and also a full member of SASAD (Association of Turkish Defence & Aviation Industries) of Turkey. Currently, SDT has some on-going development contracts directly with SSM and some of SDT’s on-going development and production contracts are with the main system integrator Turkish companies, namely TAI, ASELSAN, ROKETSAN, HAVELSAN and FNSS. SDT has an important role in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor of ANKA. The SAR sensor provides an additional capability to ANKA to obtain intelligence data under all weather conditions. ANKA’s SAR sensor is indigenously developed by SDT and ASELSAN as a result of a R&D program funded by Turkish Scientific Research Agency (TUBITAK) and executed by SSM. SDT’s role in the SAR sensor is development of SAR signal processing algorithms, real time software/firmware and also a high speed digital data recorder for SAR data. Flight test program of the sensor has been successfully completed and its integration to ANKA is ongoing. Moreover, SDT is also tasked to implement Inverse SAR (ISAR) mode on this sensor to fulfil Turkish Navy needs.
Under the SDT’s vision to concentrate on sensor signal, image and data processing, SDT has extended its product and technology base towards imaging sensors and image processing applications. Within this context, SDT is currently tasked, as subcontractor to ASELSAN, to develop “Ground Station User Service Subsystem” to implement image exploitation, archiving, user interface and order management functionalities in GOKTURK-I high resolution EO/IR military observation satellite program of Turkey. Besides, SDT is under contract for automatic target recognition algorithm and software development based on SAR images for Turkish Armed Forces. Moreover, SDT is a partner in a European Union (EU) Framework Program 7 (FP7), called ALICIA (All Condition Operations and Innovative Cockpit Infrastructure) to improve pilot’s situational awareness on the cockpit by utilizing sensor image processing and data fusion technologies to enable civilian aircraft to land, take off and taxi under bad weather conditions.
Moreover, SDT has started to develop indigenous defence products with his own financing in Airborne Digital Data/Video Recording area and created a product line named as DDR- Product Family, digital moving map applications, missile launcher control electronics, video coding/decoding system for missile seeker and airborne digital data acquisition devices to be used for military platforms. Many of SDT’s products are already being used for the needs of Turkish Armed Forces on Unmanned Air Vehicles and aircraft for Cargo, Training and Jet types. SDT has also developed various simulation and modelling applications, concentrated on embedded simulation applications, visual modelling, tactical environment simulation and sensor simulations.
Value added capabilities & technologies enable SDT to increase her product range family. Thus, these unique indigenous products have become an important tool to bring critical potential opportunities to get SDT into World Defence Market.
