Although it has been trying to grow a business, ICL is still little more than a vestigial player in the defence market, so the Putney company has particular cause to celebrate a UKP1.2m contract from the Royal Australian Air Force making it prime contractor for the supply and implementation of a computerised command and control system based on ICL’s Air Staff Management Aid already in use with the Royal Air Force in the UK and West Germany: the system is to be based on two Series 39 Level 35XP mainframes and a network of DRS 300 controllers.
