SOLID STATE DIGITAL VOICE/DATA RECORDER

SEAKR ENGINEERING, INC. WILL DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE A SOLID STATE AIRCRAFT VOICE AND DATA RECORDER DESIGN WHICH WILL USE BOTH DATA ENCRYPTION AND DATA COMPRESSION. THE FIRST PART OF THE EFFORT WILL BE DEVOTED TO EVALUATING AVAILABLE OFF THE SHELF HARDWARE AND ALGORITHMS WHICH CAN BE USED TO PERFORM THE ENCRYPTION AND COMPRESSION OPERATIONS. ALSO DURING THIS TIME THE STATUS OF SOLID STATE NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES SUCH AS MAGNETIC BUBBLE MEMORY (MBM), ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY (EEPROM), AND FERROELECTRIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (FRAM) WILL BE EVALUATED. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THESE EVALUATIONS, DATA ENCRYPTION AND DATA COMPRESSION METHODS WILL BE SELECTED AND THE NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES WILL BE CHOSEN. THE SOLID STATE VOICE/DATA RECORDER WILL THEN BE DESIGNED AND A DEMONSTRATION RECORDER BUILT AND TESTED. THIS RECORDER WILL BE SMALL, LIGHT WEIGHT, AND BE CAPABLE OF BEING PACKAGED INTO A SURVIVABLE CRASH RECORDER IN PHASE II.