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Vida Products , a four-person Santa Rosa, CA company, has won a Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop a key component of a satellite constellation NASA will use to assess global warming. Vida, described by President and CEO Ron Parrott as a "struggling startup since 2003" – the...

Despite the global financial recession, China demonstrated its support for European enterprises with its strong purchasing power, during late February when a business delegation of about 200 Chinese entrepreneurs, led by Commerce Minister Chen Deming, made a procurement tour to Germany, Switzerland, Spain and the UK. One of the...

The MSSR 2000 I secondary radar from EADS Defence & Security (DS) is the world’s only ATC radar system certified for both military and civil use, having been licensed for use in civil air traffic control by the German air traffic control organization DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, following an...

7 layers has joined the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum, a non-profit industry association advancing the use of NFC technology, as an Associate Member. The NFC Forum is a global standards development and advocacy group dedicated to advancing near field communication technology, educating the public about its benefits, and...

Indra will refurbish and extend the air space surveillance network that controls Turkey’s air traffic. The contract, worth €38.5 M, was awarded by Turkey’s State Airport Authority (DHMI) and is to be concluded within three years. The new network will be equipped with 18 Mode S Secondary Surveillance radars...

The IEEE and Accellera announced that the IEEE has approved a new standard, IEEE 1801™, "Standard for Design and Verification of Low Power Integrated Circuits." The standard is also known as Unified Power Format (UPF) 2.0. UPF, first developed by Accellera, and currently supported by multiple vendors and is...

Micronetics Inc. announced it has acquired the pedestal and forklift mounted radio frequency identification (RFID) product line of M/A-COM RFID Inc. , an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Cobham plc. RFID is a wireless identification technology that is being adopted by certain leading commercial retailers and the Department of...

Murata Electronics North America , an innovator in electronics and a global supplier of ceramic passive components, introduced the GJ8 series of multilayer monolithic ceramic chip capacitors (MLCC) designed to lower acoustic noise in consumer and industrial electronic applications by up to 30 decibels (dB) in the 1 µF...

Symmetricom® Inc. , a leader in precise time and frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment and enable the management of next generation networks, announced its latest time code displays, the TCD-2 and the TCD-4. Designed to synchronize to time code signals and clearly show the time or date from...