MBDA selects HyperSTE software for ASD-STE100 compliance

July 06, 2010

MBDA, a world leader in missiles and missile systems, is a multi-national group with employees in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany and the United States. MBDA  has three major aeronautical and defence shareholders - BAE Systems, EADS and Finmeccanica, and is the first truly integrated European defence company. MBDA works with over 90 armed forces worldwide, and designs and produces missiles and missile systems to meet the whole range of current and future operational requirements for the three armed forces (army, navy, air force). Overall, the Group offers a range of 45 products in service and another 15 in development.

MBDA is the prime contractor for a series of strategic multi-national programmes, including the six-nation Meteor air superiority weapon, the Franco-British conventionally armed cruise missile, Storm Shadow/SCALP, and a family of air defence systems based on the Aster missile for France and Italy (for ground and naval based air defence) and for the UK (naval air defence for the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers). Other programmes such as MEADS further serve to position MBDA at the heart of the European defence sector as well as establishing cooperative transatlantic links with the principal groups in the US defence industry.

In order to ensure compliance of its technical publications with ASD-STE100 (the Simplified Technical English specification), MBDA has selected Tedopres' HyperSTE software.

As part of the implementation, Tedopres:

• Provided a training course to technical writers at MBDA on the writing rules of ASD-STE100.
• Provided knowledge and tools to allow the creation of a controlled dictionary to allow for the consistent use of standardized MBDA terminology.
• Provided HyperSTE licenses. In addition to compliance with ASD-STE100, HyperSTE provides quality control on MBDA terminology, grammar and style.

For more information on how HyperSTE can help you with your controlled language (including ASD-STE100) needs, please contact us.