Digital Equipment Corp says that its DECsystem 5000 Model 200 RISC Ultrix computer systems have been selected by McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Corp for the US Defense Department’s Intelligence Information Systems Automated Message Handling System, and the contract may be worth $12m: McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Co, of McLean, Virginia is the prime contractor for the Air Force Electronic Systems Division on the $40m Message Handling program, which is a real-time document analysis system running on local-area networks; the system will replace the Defense Department’s Modular Architecture for the Exchange of Information, and McDonnell Douglas will begin installing a prototype systems this summer at the Electronic Systems Division at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, and laboratories at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York; the system is scheduled for completion at more than 50 sites by 1995; McDonnell Douglas will provide DEC kit for the server hardware and will integrate several other hardware and software items to build the complete system; also, the new server software includes Topic Real-Time from Verity Inc.
