Contract Win

RNS Number : 9819M

OMG PLC

25 August 2011

 



25 August 2011

OMG plc

("OMG" or the "Company")

Contract Win

2d3 secures contract with the US Army Geospatial Center

OMG plc, (LSE: OMG) ("OMG" or the "Group"), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries is pleased to announce that 2d3, the Group's defence and aerial business, has secured a contract with the US Army Geospatial Center ("AGC"), worth $396k over seven months. 

AGC conducts research and development into geospatial data collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination in support of both civilian missions and missions of U.S. ground forces. AGC works toward standardizing and simplifying the collection, storage, synchronization and sharing of data enabling the military both in the office and on the ground to access more relevant, reliable and more transferable data.

Under the terms of the contract, 2d3 has been engaged by AGC to perform applied research work geared toward generating 3D information from 2D imagery sources in urban environments.

Nick Bolton, Chief Executive Officer of OMG plc, added:

"We are delighted to be working with AGC. Visualizing 3D information is critical to maintain situational awareness, and also greatly enhances mission planning. Ultimately, our research will help the army make more informed decisions by helping them to better understand their operational environment in a 3D format."

For further information please contact:

OMG plc	[phone]
Nick Bolton, Group CEO
Hayley Roberts, Press Contact
Financial Dynamics	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Emma Appleton / Charles Palmer
Evolution Securities (NOMAD to OMG)	[phone]
Jeremy Ellis / Chris Clarke

About OMG

OMG plc (Oxford Metrics Group. LSE: OMG) is a group of technology companies producing image understanding products and services for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries.

Be it for capturing the movements of actors (for the movie industry),sportsmen (for video games or improving team performance), or children with Cerebral Palsy, rehab patients and animals (for medical, life science and research industries); or recording the condition of highways and the assets that surround them; or even providing image intelligence and situational awareness from drone aircraft. Through this diversified offering the Group has earned its strong international reputation for precision from pixels.

Founded in 1984, the Group is headquartered in Oxford, UK, and has four offices in the US and two in the UK. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through four operating subsidiaries:  Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, Yotta, our highways surveying business and OMG Life our new consumer subsidiary.

The Group's global clients spanning the worlds of science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film and broadcast include: major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including: Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector; Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In surveying clients include: Atkins and Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omgplc.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.com.

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