General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has selected Mediaware to provide enhanced digital video capture and exploitation capabilities for the ground control station (GCS) for GA-ASI's Predator unmanned aircraft system. Mediaware will help engineer, develop and integrate video and data dissemination enhancements for the GCS. These enhancements will provide improved video and metadata capture, exploitation and dissemination and will align the Predator GCS system with current standards and interoperability requirements. Mediaware will provide the software necessary to combine Predator aircraft positional information and sensor video into a single MPEG-2 Internet-compliant digital video stream that will be exported in real time from the GCS. Following the initial development phase, the entire Predator fleet will probably be retrofitted with these GCS enhancements.

Mediaware's systems and technologies are deployed in the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Navy, as well as within the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command. Established in 1998, Mediaware is a developer of compressed digital video systems and solutions for the defense and broadcast sectors.

The company has become one of Australia's leading technology exporters, with more than 95% of its sales generated in the United States. Key customers in the defense sector include the Australian Defense Force, as well as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, SAIC and General Dynamics. Mediaware has offices in Canberra and Sydney, Australia and in Washington, D.C.