OCCAR News 30. September 2014 OCCAR Information Day in Italy On 30 September 2014, a team headed by OCCAR Director Tim Rowntree gave a comprehensive briefing on OCCAR’s way of working to more than 100 Italian Armed Forces’ staff members. 29. March 2014 CARABINIERE: 4th Italian FREMM launched On 29 March 2014, the Italian FREMM Carabiniere, the third in the Anti Submarine Warfare configuration, was launched at the FINCANTIERI shipyard in Riva Trigoso. 10. March 2014 ESSOR at the MILCOM’13 and WInnComm’14 conferences: Presentations of the ESSOR High Data Rate Waveform capabilities and the methodology for developing a portable coalition waveform software The presentation and promotion of the ESSOR HDR WF (High Data Rate Waveform) as a new international standard for Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems has recently started. 01. March 2014 First airdrop campaign for A400M The A400M has successfully completed its first test airdrop campaign. This campaign took place in France over Fonsorbes (Midi-Pyrenees), using aircraft MSN004 (Manufacturer Serial Number 004).
