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Diamond Point International has announced that it has been appointed as the distribution sales partner for Aitech Defence Systems in the UK and Ireland. Diamond Point will offer and support the complete Aitech product line.

Aitech Defence Systems is headquartered in Chatsworth, California and has principal offices in Herzlia, Israel. The company is a leading-edge supplier of rugged commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), radiation tolerant and MIL-SPEC computer systems for defence and aerospace applications. Its extensive product range includes single-board VME Bus and CompactPCI computers and peripheral I/O boards, power sub-systems, mass memory, PMC mezzanines and enclosures as well as hardware sub-system integration solutions.

Diamond Point will sell and provide hardware and software systems support for these advanced products via its Military Sales Group operating throughout the UK and Ireland, backed by its experienced defence and aerospace systems support staff.

Sherman Kemmer, managing director of Diamond Point International commented, “The appointment of Diamond Point as Aitech's distribution partner represents a fantastic opportunity for both companies. Aitech's excellent range of ruggedised products based on VME and CompactPCI platforms compliment, strengthen and add value to Diamond Point's growing product portfolio. We can now offer solutions based on COTS, radiation tolerant & MIL-SPEC environments suitable for space, military and defence applications."

“This agreement is testimony to the capability of Diamond Point in providing direct and efficient routes to market along with the benefit of local sales and technical support. We looked at a number of distribution companies in the UK, but after discussions with a selection of our UK customers we concluded that Diamond Point had the level of service and support that we demanded," said Rafi Horesh, director of sales for Aitech Defence Systems. “Furthermore, Diamond Point's expertise in providing reliable, high performance COTS solutions enables us to more easily offer reliable, turnkey solutions to meet our customer's stringent requirements. Undoubtedly, Diamond Point will help us to expand our business throughout the U.K and Ireland, he added."

Established in 1983, Diamond Point services a mix of OEMs and system integrators. At the forefront of industrial computing technology, the company is committed to the Open Systems philosophy and maintains a portfolio of standards based products.

Diamond Point's engineering teams integrate hardware and software products, offering total system solutions to meet the demands of its customers. The company's core-computing hardware technologies include ETX, PC/104, DIMM-PC, PCMCIA, PC/Industrial PC, CompactPCI, VME and accessories comprising disks, cables, flat panels, monitors, and keyboards. Its portfolio of core modules encompasses communication products based on a host of bus types, including PCI, ISA, PCMCIA, and USB as well as digital and analogue I/O. The company focuses on WINDOWS, DOS, LINUX and LynxOS software for critical real-time applications.

With its broad range of hardware and software products, Diamond Point offers an extensive integration service. The company's capabilities include the design of custom chassis and baseboards for embedded applications.

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