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About Us

Customer Cases

Since the very beginning Sjöland & Thyselius’ major business area has been the defense industry, where we provide consultant services, develop products and prototypes/demonstrators. We have also participated in a number of research projects. We work closely with the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV), the Swedish Defense Research Establishment (FOI) and the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarter. We work with all branches of the services, with a slight over-weight towards aviation.

Some examples of work we have done through the years or are still doing are presented below.

Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV)

FMV is a government body responsible for the procurement of defense materiel. FMV was our first customer and Sjöland & Thyselius has done a large number of assignments for them, both consultant services and system development, mostly in software related fields. There have also been several projects involving modeling and simulation, which is one of our areas of expertise.

Digital Maps

Sjöland & Thyselius has worked with digital maps for several years and has, to give a few examples, developed the products MilMap and Blueberry3D, as well as participated in the development of GeoPres, the successor to MilMap, based on ArcGIS from ESRI. We have also worked with coordinate transformation for navigation purposes.

MilMap is an interactive and user-friendly PC-tool for presentation and analyses of terrain for military purposes. Blueberry3D is a tool for visualizing terrain in 3D and is primarily used in training simulators. A large number of companies/organizations are on the customer list of Blueberry3D: EADS, US Air Force, US Navy, United Defense, Augusta Westland, British Aerospace and DoD of Korea among others. The future development and sales of Blueberry3D has been taken over by Bionatics in France.

Simulators

Sjöland & Thyselius has a long tradition of technical procurement support, primarily for tank simulators such as BTA 122 (Leopard Heavy Tank), BTA 90 (Swedish Combat Vehicle 90) and SEP (Swedish Multi-role Armored Vehicle).

The SK 60 Flight book Application, a training simulator for the Air Force training aircraft SK60, was developed by Sjöland & Thyselius. Originally it was designed for training checklists, emergency situations using an ordinary lap-top and a joy-stick, but it has been redesigned to include flight training and is currently operational in a dome version. The system is based on commercially available software such as X-Plane. We see a vast range of future opportunities for this type of flexible low-cost simulators.

A visual terrain model of the Vidsel test range in the north of Sweden was designed using Blueberry3D. The model is based on map data from the Swedish Land Survey. It allows its user to travel across the entire test range and observe the different facilities offered there.

FbSim (see also below) is used by FMV in a number of different applications, such as:

  • A study of logistics simulation where it is used to simulate the different activities performed by the units involved, and the resources that needs to be re-supplied.
  • Simulation results produced by FbSim are has been used in the procurement of a UAV-system, using Simulation Based Acquisition.

Certification

Sjöland & Thyselius was instrumental in the airworthiness certification of the JAS/Gripen aircraft for export to Hungary and the Czech Republic. We also played an important role in the airworthiness certification of the next generation Swedish light helicopter, hkp 15.

Sjöland & Thyselius is instrumental in FMV’s effort to create and maintain a Common Criteria Certification Board for IT-safety and security.

System development

Over the years Sjöland & Thyselius has developed a large number of systems as well as prototypes and demonstrators for FMV. Some examples are:
  • SLIE, managing indirect fire, a tool for development of tactical artillery command and control methods.
  • PC-Dart, a radio-communication system for text messages. It has been used through-out the Armed Forces since 1994, and is still continuously modified for a constantly changing operating environment.
  • EOIKOM, a system for handling weather data for defense purposes.

Methods and quality

We have also been involved in several methodology development projects, such as developing methods for mine-clearance off the Baltic coast.

Sjöland & Thyselius has worked as liaison engineers in system safety issues for the next generation Swedish medium size helicopter, hkp 14.

Swedish Defence Research Establishment (FOI)

FOI is a government body responsible for most of the public funded defense oriented research. FOI was one our first customers and Sjöland & Thyselius has been involved in a large number of projects, providing both consultant services and system development, mostly involving modeling and simulation. Generally the projects are classified and can for this reason only be described very briefly or not at all. Magnus Sjöland is a board member of FOI.
  • MUMS, submarine counter-measures
  • Silvia, simulation of missile systems for technical development purposes
  • FbSim, Force level simulation, with a focus on anti-air missiles and anti-tank-missiles. FbSim is used for a number of purposes, such as method development and tactical training. FbSim is a joint venture between FOI, Sjöland & Thyselius (integrator) and major defense contractors such as Saab and Ericsson.
  • FLSC (Air Force Combat Simulation Centre) is a department within FOI:
    • Man-machine interface for pilot helmet
    • Handling Quality and Flight Control Systems

Swedish Armed Forces Headquarter

Sjöland & Thyselius work both with the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarter as well as with the subordinated units. Our assignments include everything from technical system development to establishing rules and regulations. We are one of two companies that support the Swedish Armed Forces in the information system authorization process.

Sjöland & Thyselius has participated in updating and improving the RML (Rules for Military Airworthiness).

In collaboration with the Swedish Air Force, Sjöland & Thyselius has developed a planning system for all air transportation, including the aircraft servicing the Swedish government.

Sjöland & Thyselius took part in the preparations of background material leading up to the long term Defense Budget of 2004.

SAAB Group

Saab is the largest Swedish defense contractor and thus important both as a customer and a partner. Our main assignments with Saab are to take part in software development projects.

Sjöland & Thyselius participates as consultants for Saab in various technical development projects:

  • Stric, a command and control system for the JAS/Gripen aircraft
  • SLB, an army command and control system on battalion level
  • The next generation Swedish medium size helicopter, hkp 15. Sjöland & Thyselius is involved in developing and testing avionics software
  • Taras, a ground-to-air radio for the JAS/Gripen aircraft
  • Bamse, a ground-to-air missile system

Sjöland & Thyselius works as a partner to Saab in a number of projects:

  • RSF, a logistics system for front-line units including connections with logistics supply units (Sjöland & Thyselius in-house project in collaboration with Saab for FMV)
  • Giraffe, a ground based mobile radar system adapted for Venezuela (Sjöland & Thyselius in-house project for Saab Ericsson Microwave)

Other customers

Sjöland & Thyselius also has several important customers outside the defense industry.

Swedish Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA)

Sjöland & Thyselius has taken part in the introduction of a new Air Traffic Control System. We have also been engaged to perform System Safety Assessments; one example is the new air traffic control tower at Arlanda Airport/Stockholm.

We contributed to the development of AFCO, a weather data handling system, and performed quality revisions of subcontractors to the SCAA.

Safegate

Safegate develops run-way-to-gate guiding systems and Sjöland & Thyselius has been commissioned to connect these to the airports’ own information systems. So far we have done this in several different locations such as Poland, Turkey, China, UK and Qatar.

Radio Systems

For Radio Systems we are developing electronic hardware; a PC on a board, for telecom surveillance applications.

Ericsson

In addition to being involved in a large number of real-time software development projects in the telecom field, Sjöland & Thyselius has been instrumental in:
  • An effort to co-ordinate and streamline the software development process for a project distributed over three development sites, two in Sweden and one in India.
  • A project to adapt and introduce the agile development method SCRUM in Ericsson.
  • Technical training and support on-site for the Ericsson development center in Cairo, Egypt.