News Release

UK Ministry of Defence Celebrates 500th Aircraft on WRAM

La Jolla, CA – March 23, 2005

MIRO Technologies and the UK Ministry of Defence co-hosted an event last month at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton to commemorate the 500th aircraft managed by MIRO’s Work Recording and Asset Management (WRAM) system. The 500 aircraft are all military helicopters and fixed wing aircraft in service with the Royal Navy and Army.

WRAM enables engineers to plan and forecast all maintenance activities, and to calculate accurately when any part of the aircraft needs changing. It also tracks high-cost components such as engines, gearboxes and rotor blades around the world, because WRAM is deployed on ships, air bases and in single aircraft detachments in operational environments as diverse as Northern Ireland, Germany and Iraq. Deployment of WRAM is uniquely autonomous in that it enables the unit to maintain aircraft and control airworthiness, entirely without the need to connect their laptop or PUP (Portable Unix Processor) to a remote server.

“The successful collaboration between the MOD and MIRO Technologies, covering 11 years and 500 aircraft, has enabled the WRAM system to bring clarity and simplicity to aviation logistic data management, says Brigadier Flint, head of the Logistics Information group within the Defence Logistics Organization. “Partnerships such as this will be essential to the successful delivery of improved information support to Defence logistics.”

The event at the museum was well attended by Royal Navy, Army, RAF and Civil Service personnel, all of whom had worked together over the past eleven years on the project. Brigadier Flint presented a model of the Lynx Mk7, the 500th aircraft added to the system, to the Lynx project team leader, Captain David Evans, RN. The Brigadier also presented an identical Lynx model to Vincent Monteparte, President of MIRO Technologies, to symbolize the successful WRAM program at MOD.

“We have appreciated our long standing business relationship with the MOD,” says Vincent Monteparte. “We look forward to delivering the next generation application that will provide a leading edge JAVA based web solution to combine the Navy and Army on to a single system,” he continued. WRAM EPL is considered a critical step towards achieving convergence of all Rotary Wing Platforms across all three MOD services.

Since its inception, the Royal Navy and Army have placed almost their entire fleet of helicopters and aircraft on the system. Over the forthcoming 18 months, a further 67 Apache helicopters and 25 RAF Sea King Mk3/3a will be captured into the system, taking the total close to 600 aircraft on WRAM.

The WRAM system does exactly what the name suggests; it records all the engineering work conducted on an aircraft and manages the state and location of the aircraft and all attached parts. WRAM forecasts recurring maintenance and enables an engineer to record and defer acceptable faults. It calculates the weight and moment of the aircraft as components are added or removed, and records the modification state of an aircraft; vital when considering which aircraft to send on operational duties. WRAM gives visibility of all this work and all the assets worldwide, which gives the Integrated Project Team (IPT) responsible for a particular aircraft much greater control over where their assets are, how often they are maintained, and how best to provide logistic support to their aircraft fleet.

ABOUT MIRO TECHNOLOGIES

MIRO Technologies is a leading provider of world class, enterprise Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul and logistics support software for the defense and commercial aerospace markets with over 150,000 end-users. MIRO’s GOLDTM and AuRATM software solutions are installed at 158 sites around the world. MIRO Technologies has successfully supported the needs of military operators, commercial airlines and repair facilities and suppliers for 23 years with integrated products and services that power profits and performance. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MIRO Technologies also has offices in Yeovil, Somerset, U.K. Further information about the company and its product suite can be found at www.mirotechnologies.com.