Aonix®, a provider of complete safety- and mission-critical solutions, plays a significant role in the FELIN Project, an armament system that will optimize the communications, defence and strategic capabilities of foot soldiers in the field. The FELIN system, a French acronym translated as Foot Soldier with Integrated Equipment and Connections, uses Aonix PERC virtual machine as a run-time environment for parts of the application written in Java language requiring high reliability and determinism.

The FELIN system includes a complete armament system focused on the foot soldier that will significantly improve the foot soldiers’ capability and reactivity in the field. With FELIN, the soldier will be able to carry out mission objectives at day or night. Operating within a larger communications network, the infantry will be able to transmit data and Video images in addition to communicating via radiotelegraphy. Ballistic protection of the soldiers will be optimized with specific protection against NBC (nuclear, biologic, chemical) attacks. The wearability of equipment has been tailored to ensure that it will not decrease operational performance of soldiers.

“Our participation in the FELIN project confirms our leadership position in the embedded real-time Java language community,” said Jacques Brygier, VP of Marketing at Aonix. “We are honored to have been chosen as a key supplier for this important project.”

The Direction Générale de l’Armement (the French Defense Department) initiated the FELIN project in March 2004. At that time, the Integrated Program Management team notified industrial firm SAGEM that they had been chosen for development, industrialization and manufacturing of FELIN project equipment. The FELIN equipment will become standard fare for French infantry units in 2006, contributing significantly to the readiness and responsiveness of troups.

PERC is a clean-room virtual machine expressly created for demanding embedded and real-time systems requiring J2SE support. PERC delivers the ease and efficiency of Java Standard Edition support without sacrificing integrity, performance, or real-time behavior. It offers AOT and JIT compilation, remote debug support, deterministic garbage collection, standard graphics and extended commercial RTOS support.

About Aonix

Aonix offers mission- and safety-critical solutions primarily to the Military and aerospace, telecommunications and transportation-related industries. Aonix delivers the leading high-reliability, real-time embedded Java™ solution deployed today and has the largest number of certified Ada applications at the highest level of criticality. Our unique modeling solution features UML™ 2.0 profiles and MDA™ tailored for the mission- and safety-critical space. Aonix products include PERC®, RAVEN™, and Ameos™. Headquartered in San Diego, CA and Paris, France, Aonix operates sales offices throughout North America and Europe in addition to offering a network of international distributors. For more information, visit www.aonix.com.