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Elbit Purchases Azimuth
HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 25, 2010 -- Elbit Systems’ wholly owned subsidiary, Elbit Security Systems Ltd., has announced that it has purchased the remaining shares of Azimuth Technologies Ltd. for approximately $46.5 m...
Yb Tops Cesium in Superclock
GAITHERSBERG, Md., Aug. 12, 2009 – An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation's civilian time standard. Scientists at...
Storing Sunlight for Soldiers
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, & ARLINGTON, Va., July 21, 2009 -- New technologies for capturing sunlight and storing it as energy in flexible and wearable solar cells are being pursued by the Air Force Research Laboratory to help soldiers on the ground and those operating unmanned aerial vehicles.
Nanometer Precision Lidar
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 26, 20009 – The National Institute of Standards and Technology combined two different distance measurement approaches with the superaccuracy of an optical frequency comb to build a laser ranging system that may offer peerless precision in remote measurements.
Thin-films Researcher Lands Air Force Grant
Dec 15, 2008 — Shashank Priya, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., has been awarded a $100,000 three-year renewable grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, one of 39 scientists and engineers to...
NASA sells patent licenses
Dec 1, 2008 — NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has set 25 patent assets on a course for technology commercialization. Eleven of those assets were grouped into one lot and sold at a live intellectual property (IP) auction Oct. 30 at the Chicago Cultural Center....
NASA Patents Going, Going...
CHICAGO, Sept. 11, 2008 -- Sensing, global positioning and computer systems technologies developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be sold to the highest bidder on Oct. 30 in Chicago, marking the first time a federal laboratory has participated in a live intellectual...
Microdisplays: Coming Soon to an Eye Near You?
Sep 1, 2008 — Imagine strolling past a restaurant and having its menu hover translucently in your field of vision, or getting a call from friends and having a GPS-like map appear in front of you as a guide to their exact location. These types of “augmented...
Elbit Supplies Israeli Forces with MARS System
Jul 28, 2008 — Elbit Systems of Haifa, Israel, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics (Elop) will supply the Israeli defense forces with a light weight thermal imaging and target acquisition system called MARS. This handheld...
Birds May Use Molecular GPS
TUCSON, Ariz., May 5, 2008 -- A sophisticated molecule may be what drives a bird's internal global positioning system (GPS). Under illumination, the molecule is sensitive to both the magnitude and the direction of magnetic fields as tiny as the Earth’s -- which is about...
NXP Acquiring GloNav
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Dec. 21, 2007 -- NXP Semiconductors announced today it will acquire GloNav Inc., a US-based fabless semiconductor company that makes chips for global positioning systems (GPS) and other satellite navigation technologies, for as much as $110 million. Under terms...
KVH Industries Wins Grant to Develop FOG-Based Northfinder
Nov 16, 2007 — KVH Industries Inc. of Middletown, R.I., announced today it has been awarded a $730,000 Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant by the US Department of Defense to develop a smaller and lighter fiber optic gyro (FOG) -based...
DoD to Stop Using SA-Enabled GPS Satellites
Sep 19, 2007 — The Department of Defense announced it intends to stop procuring global positioning system (GPS) satellites with the ability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals. This capability, known as selective availability (SA), will no...
Thales Sells Navigation Div.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & PARIS, July 25, 2006 -- Thales agreed last week to sell its Thales Navigation Div. to an investment group led by Santa Clara-based technology private equity firm Shah Capital Partners (SCP) for $170 million. Thales Navigation makes the Magellan Roadmate series of...
Lockheed Martin Names VP of New Business Line
May 17, 2006 — Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin has named Richard F. Ambrose as vice president of a newly formed Surveillance and Navigation Systems business line within its Space Systems Co. His responsibilities will include the company's national security...
Lockheed GPS Satellite Operational
Dec 20, 2005 — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 20 -- The first modernized global positioning system (GPS) satellite featuring additional navigation signals to benefit military and civilian users around the world is operational after on-orbit testing, a joint US Air...
San Andreas Survey Reveals Never-Seen Fault Lines
Dec 20, 2005 — COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 20 -- In completing the most meticulous survey ever made of the San Andreas Fault, Ohio State University researchers found detailed features no one else had been able to see. Michael Bevis, an eminent scholar in geodynamics...
Trimble to Acquire Apache
Mar 21, 2005 — SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 21 -- Trimble, a maker of global positioning systems (GPS) technology, construction lasers, robotic stations and machine control products, announced today it has made a definitive agreement to acquire Apache Technologies...
Raytheon, ISRO Collaborate
Nov 16, 2004 — BANGALORE, India, Nov. 16 -- Raytheon Co. has signed a contract with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Satellite Center for the ground-based elements of the global positioning system (GPS) and geostationary earth orbit augmented...
Leica GIS and GPS Systems Plotted Crop Art
Feb 19, 2004 — ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Feb. 19 -- If you flew over Switzerland's Rhine Valley last year, you might have been surprised to see massive colorful artworks growing in the fields below. In celebration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Swiss canton...
Daily News Briefs
Dec 23, 2003 — Trimble, a Sunnyvale, Calif., developer of global positioning system (GPS) technology, announced that the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd. (GNS), in New Zealand, has purchased 40 Trimble NetRS reference station receivers to expand...
Trimble to Buy 3-D Laser Scanning Company
Sep 17, 2003 — HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 17 -- Trimble, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of global positioning system (GPS) technology, announced today it has signed an agreement with EDF Environnement et Developpement SA of France to acquire its subsidiary,...
Avis to Roll Out Motorola GPS System
Jul 28, 2003 — LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., July 28 -- Avis Rent A Car System Inc. and Motorola Inc. have announced a commercial contract that will make the Avis Assist phone-based navigation system available in up to fifty cities across the US and Canada. Avis Assist,...
GPS Devices Put to Novel Uses in Japan
Jun 24, 2003 — TOKYO, June 24 -- Two novel uses of the global positioning system (GPS) have been developed for security-minded residents of Japan. The security company Secom Co. Ltd. plans to unleash a new service later this month to track missing dogs using...
Trimble Supplies China GPS System
Jun 2, 2003 — SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2 -- Trimble, a global positioning system (GPS) technology developer, said it has supplied GPS reference stations and its Virtual Reference Station (VRS) software to the Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province in China to...
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