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No sooner has the market for consumer electronics devices incorporating Wi-Fi begun to gain real traction than another, based on high-speed connections via 3G cellular technologies or mobile WiMAX, is starting to take shape. According to a new study from ABI Research, portable consumer electronics—digital cameras, media players, portable...

Following an extensive study into the various high technology advanced driver assistance systems, the Strategy Analytics Automotive Electronics service report, “ADAS: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges,” reveals a current, low, one percent penetration rates for ADAS applications in light vehicle production—except for camera and parking assistance systems, which already stand...

The French armaments directorate (DGA) has selected EADS Defence & Security (DS) to carry out preparatory work for the development of an operational system consisting of army networks for latest-generation telecommunications, entitled Système Opérationnel Composé des Réseaux des Armées pour les TElécommunications Nouvelle Génération (SOCRATE NG). Within the scope...

The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at Glasgow University, Scotland, has opened. Centred on the department of electronics and electrical engineering, the new facility will be the focus of interdisciplinary research at the nanometre scale and brings together many different research groups working in engineering and the physical and life...

DCN and Thales have finalised with the French government the agreement concerning the consolidation of their activities within the French naval defence sector. This major step is aimed at the constitution of a consolidated European naval defence industry in which DCN and Thales will have a major role to...

A group of major European players in the security sector has announced their intention to launch the European Organisation for Security— EOS—which is the private sector’s response in support of the European Commission initiative: European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF). The Organisation has two main aims: to promote...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a €100 M framework contract with OHB-System AG of Germany to develop a European Small Geostationary Satellite platform for telecommunication missions. With this initiative, ESA is supporting European industry in broadening the product portfolio range on offer to the commercial telecommunication satellite...

The US Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin conducted another successful flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system, intercepting a unitary target in THAAD second flight test at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, HI. This hit-to-kill intercept demonstrated THAAD’s precision against...

Raytheon Co. received approval of its environmental assessment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for precision placement of two National Polar-orbiting Operational Environment Satellite System (NPOESS) SafetyNet&trede;data-receipt antennae at the McMurdo Bay research station in Antarctica. This milestone will enable construction to begin on the NPOESS antennae or receptor...

The US Marine Corps has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a contract valued at $256.6 M to develop its new Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), which consolidates the missions of five Marine Corps radars into a multi-role radar system. The contract scope of work during this first program phase includes...