Special Features:

A receptacle for the solid state drive, (ssd) and pcmcia card, and houses the circuit card assembly (cca), fiber optic harness, ssd harness, and electrical chassis. This is a removable storage system that is utilized by the b-2 avionics processing functions. It will be installed as part of the extermely high frequency (ehf) satellite communications (satcom) system that will provide the b-2 bomber primary beyond line of sightr (blos) assured information capability to satisfy basic requirements for data communications

Properties:

An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.