Achievement
Deep Vision has been awarded the prestigious Premio Innovazione Finmeccanica for their work on SELEX Galileo's TIGER Project. The Premio Innovaziones are awarded for brand new technologies and ideas designed to meet the emerging requirements of customers around the world and, most of all, to help and protect troops on the front lines. TIGER is a Battlespace Information Terrain Generator for enhanced situational awareness. The aim of the Innovation Prize awards is to enhance the value of research and innovation within the Finmeccanica group.
Premio Innovazione Finmeccanica - open to all Group companies - were created to promote value creation through research and development, that is fundamental to growth and competitiveness. This year, 750 proposals were submitted, from which 73 finalists were chosen. The selection of the three equal winner projects was made by a committee chaired by Professor Nick Lieven, Head of Aerospace Engineering at Bristol University (UK), and comprising professors and researchers from this University - a centre of academic excellence in the aerospace sector, with which Finmeccanica has a long history of fruitful collaboration.
One of the other three prizes went to MBDA, which has developed a Linux-based operating system able to fully utilize the capacity offered by new multi-core microprocessors, that enable calculations to be made in real time using several CPUs on a single microchip. The many potential applications of this system range from graphics simulators to navigation, radar systems and video games.
Background
While technologic innovation comes from the encounter between technology and talent, Finmeccanica, with its extraordinary variety of technologies and expertise, has exceptional potential for innovation, which is necessary to make everyone aware, involved and proud. The prize, which is one of the most important of Finmeccanica, is therefore aimed at stimulating the contribution of each person to the continuous progress, providing visibility and recognition to those who are able to offer solutions that facilitate the improvement of business performance. Over the years this goal was largely achieved, tangible and measurable results have also been achieved. The proposals made in various group companies were gradually transformed into new and effective applications, useful to develop products and processes for success.
The initiative has seen a growing participation, involving overall, in six editions held so far, over 13,000 people, for a total of approximately 4,400 innovative proposals. To a quantitative growth, a quality growth was added over the years in terms of proposals, and an increasing attention to their "protection". And these numbers testify how widespread Finmeccanica attention is to innovation and at the same time it is not only a strategic objective of the Group, but a daily reality for many people who work within it.
The winning projects spanned the breadth of SELEX Galileo’s technologies, with proposals that included new ideas in electro-optical sensors, lasers, unmanned autonomous systems, radar, systems for monitoring territory and three dimensional image generation systems.
