VT Miltope Introduces New Semi-Rugged Laptop

    HOPE HILL, AL, October 21, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- VT Miltope, a company of VT Systems, Inc., today announced they will be offering a new semi-rugged derivative of the HP ZBook 17 computer mobile workstation called the SRNC-17, Semi-Rugged Notebook Computer.

VT Miltope President and CEO Julie Briggs made the announcement with HP's Todd Gustafson during the Association of the United States Army's (AUSA) 2013 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

"We are thrilled to introduce a new product to the 'My Miltope' family of computers and peripherals," said Briggs. "The SRNC-17 combines the ruggedness of VT Miltope and the technology of HP in one package. It also allows VT Miltope to bring to market our extensive ultra-rugged, Department of Defense experience with a new computer for use in less severe conditions while maintaining our trademark reliability in the extreme."

"Customers requiring a semi-rugged mobile workstation can count on the computing reliability of the SRNC-17," said Todd Gustafson, vice president, US Public Sector Sales-Printing and Personal Systems Group, HP "The HP ZBook 17's power and expandability combined with VT Miltope's experience with DoD requirements will provide an outstanding integrated solution."

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The SRNC-17 is a highly reliable, high performance-computing platform designed for less harsh conditions, but still requiring a degree of ruggedness. The core architecture is based on the 4th Generation Intel Core i7 processor and Mobile Intel 8 Series QM87 Express chipset. And like every VT Miltope computer, it is designed and tested to stringent MIL SPEC and environmentally screened to withstand the harshest conditions in the world.

The SRNC-17 will be factory configured to ship with either the Windows 7/8 or Linux 64-Bit Operating Systems.

VT Miltope, a company of VT Systems, with ISO 9001:2000 certified facilities, is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and testing of rugged computers and computer peripheral equipment for military, industry and commercial applications where reliable operation of the equipment under demanding environmental conditions is of paramount importance. For more than 30 years, VT Miltope's broad range of computers, computer workstations, servers, disk cartridges, printers, mass storage systems and other related products have served defense, government and commercial customers. Please visit www.mymiltope.com

VT Systems is an engineering company providing integrated solutions to the commercial and government markets in the aerospace, electronics, land systems and marine sectors. VT Systems' innovative solutions, products and services include aircraft maintenance, repair and modification; software solutions in training and simulation; satellite-based IP communications technology; network solutions that integrate data, voice and video; rugged computers and computer peripheral equipment; specialized truck bodies and trailers; weapons and munitions systems; road construction equipment; and ship design and shipbuilding. Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., VT Systems operates globally and is a wholly owned subsidiary of ST Engineering. Please visit www.vt-systems.com.

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