ATDP
Advanced Threat Detection Processor
SDL developed ATDP to advance infrared counter measures (IRCM) capabilities for the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps in response to the increasing threat to tactical aircraft from infrared guided surface‐to‐air missiles. The ADTP missile warning system is the data processing engine for the system sensors, control indicator, platform inertial navigation system, multi‐function displays, radio frequency warning system, multi‐band laser, flare dispenser, data recorder, and platform mission computer.
ATDP was designed to support up to six of the next generation 400x400 at 100hz Hostile Fire sensors, while displaying and providing data to the flares, jammers and other recorder systems. The system was designed to process data at a much higher rate than what was currently being supported. SDL designed a thermally controlled chassis that was ~15lbs lighter than the existing systems while supporting up to 3x the number of sensors. In addition, SDL developed all of the electronics to process and manage the missile warning algorithms. Much of the design used PCI Express to increase the data throughput and FPGAs to decrease the size, weight and power in the system.