Datasaab

Datasaab was the computer division of, and later a separate company spun off from, aircraft manufacturer Saab in Linköping, Sweden.

Its computing power was needed for design calculations for the next generation jet fighter Saab 37 Viggen.

[1][2] Eventually Sperry would take full ownership of Saab-UNIVAC once it had completed the conversion of the Saab Mainframe customerbase to the 1100 series.

[3] In 1971, technologies from Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT) and Saab were combined to form Stansaab AS, a joint venture that also included the state-owned Swedish Development Company.

The company's primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications.

After a series of mergers, the name Datasaab became connected with an incident of illegal technology transfer to the Soviet Union in the late 1970s.

[6] A 1973 bid for tender for a civilian air traffic control system at the airports in Moscow, Kyiv, and Mineralnye Vody was won by Swedish supplier Stansaab.