September 12, 2007 – ASTi recently shipped 22 Secure DACS Upgrade Kits to Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. headquarters in Huntsville, AL. These kits will be distributed to various Teledyne Brown sites where they will enable ASTi's Digital Audio Communications Systems to comply with the stringent security standards required by many of today's government installations.

The Secure DACS Upgrade Kit requires minor hardware and software updates to existing 2U DACS systems, and provides a read-only compact flash drive with no operating system and a single boot process running ASTi's Model Builder software. During operation, Secure DACS platforms are indistinguishable from standard systems. Unlike the standard DACS, however, model development and file management are handled offline using the customer's PC platform.

The upgrade kit's most valuable benefit is that it allows TBE the continued use of their existing DACS platforms (some of which were shipped in 1999), while meeting the latest security requirements.