The Israeli software and consulting firm Advanced Logistics
Developments (ALD) has won a tender from NASA to install its software
which can locate and prevent hitches in NASA's space shuttles.
The contract is for three years and estimated at $5 million. The
Israeli company is traded at the Tel Aviv stock market, and
specializes in locating and analyzing problems in complicated and
critical systems.
The contract states that ALD will install the software, perform
analysis and report malfunctions regularly and will allocate
professionals from the company's daughter company in the United
States to work on the project for NASA.
The program is supposed to be capable of locating and collecting
malfunctions and contributes to the industries in which security and
maintenance in the stages of development, production, operation and
maintenance are critical.
ÊALD's research and development center is located in Tel Aviv, with
sales and support centers in the United States, France, England and
Italy. The company has been working on large military and defense
projects for over 20 years, both in Israel and abroad. The company's
founder and President is Dr. Zigmund Bluvband.
The company had recently won Lockheed Martin's most prestigious
project of future fighter jet F-35 in a tender and will be installing
a program which locates and prevents malfunctions.
Some of the company's clients include: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, the
Israel Aerospace Industries, ELTA Systems, Dimona's Nuclear Research
Center, the Italian company Marconi-Selenia, the Israeli Defense
Force's Technology and Logistics Branch and more.