Leonardo DRS has completed deliveries of its Mounted Family of Computer Systems (MFoCS) version I to the US Army and started shipping MFoCS II in September 2019, Bill Guyan, DRS Land Electronics senior vice-president and general manager, told Jane’s .
MFoCS provides the vehicle computing and display architecture for mission command and other applications. The latest generation has a quad-core Xeon processor replacing the i7 of MFoCS I, which enables the linkage of multiple systems and virtual machine (VM) applications, Guyan said at the Association of the United States Army 2019 (AUSA 2019) annual conference in Washington in October 2019.
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