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An Egyptian company has unveiled a domestically made command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) system. The system works with defense systems from around the world, an important attribute for countries such as Egypt that buy equipment from a variety of global manufacturers.
ACME SAICO presented the system at the International Defense Expo in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. According to the website Breaking Defense, Egypt has struggled to coordinate the operations of its defense systems since the 1970s because of their different origins. This includes aircraft, air defense systems, naval systems and others.
The new system is designed to solve that problem.
“C5ISR can deal with hybrid defense systems from different countries and following different protocols,” Ziad Badawi, head of the company’s Electronic Industries Division, told Breaking Defense.
C5ISR is an integrated system giving fighters on the battlefield and officers in the command center the ability to seamlessly communicate and access real-time information. According to the U.S. Army, the best C5ISR technology allows for “information dominance and decisive lethality for the networked Soldier.”
In 2018, ACME SAICO produced a radar integration and surveillance command center that was later upgraded to perform combined missions with radars, missiles, aircraft, land forces and counter-terrorism, Badawi told Breaking Defense. The company has developed command centers for land and naval operations.
The company said its technology meets the highest standards of cybersecurity.
“We build our own cybersecurity system hardware base that doesn’t need updates from the internet,” he said. “The system is a closed cloud customer that the operator can control without the firm’s technician’s intervention. The firm only provides technology transfer for the integration parts, and the operator makes the integration.”