ACQUISITIONS & CONTRACTS
NAV Portugal Selects Sensis for Lisbon Airport
Sensis Multistatic Dependent Surveillance system to enhance safety and efficiency at Portugal's busiest airport. continued
Mercury Computer Systems is Selected by Lockheed Martin
Mercury PowerStream 7000 system to provide massive compute density for multi-mission applications in defense and homeland security. continued
MARKET RESEARCH
Research and Markets Targets Energy Harvesting
The report, covering energy harvesting and storage for electronic devices for the period from 2009 to 2019 provides insight into what is happening and about to happen. continued
NEW TECHNOLOGIES and products
RTI Chooses Biomass Engine System for Tactical Robot
RTI purchases beta biomass engine system from Cyclone Power Technologies for use in its DARPA-sponsored EATR autonomous tactial robot. continued
iPower 5.0 For Electrical Transmission, Distribution
iPower 5.0 For Electrical Transmission, Distribution GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms' iPower 5.0 for iFIX and its DNP3 driver delivers lower total cost of ownership based on best-in-class HMI/SCADA software iFIX 5.0. continued
New Generation of Digital Sensors to Replace Analog
Automotive supplier Hella will offer a digital throttle-body position sensor that uses the SENT protocol rather than CAN or LIN. continued
Breakthrough for MEMS Temperature Stability
Silicon Clocks' proprietary CMEMS-ZeroThermal technology matches quartz-crystal performance and efficiency; delivers 30x improvement over other MEMS resonators. continued
Raytheon-Led Team IBCS Completes Major Milestone
The team has presented its system software and hardware architecture as part of phase one of the U.S. Army's Integrated Battle Command System program. continued
Eco-Snow Systems Cleans Image Sensors With Snow
The company's CO2-based automated system removes up to twice as many small particles from image sensors during manufacturing than competing technologies, without causing damage to the sensors. continued
Daylight Solutions Commercializes Mid-IR Laser System
The high-resolution, broadly-tunable mid-IR laser system is suitable for environmental and industrial monitoring research, offering 3.3 µm and 4.5 µm center wavelengths. continued
PAIRINGS & PARTNERSHIPS
LNE, Digital Surf to Cooperate on Surface Metrology
Under the cooperation agreement, LNE (the French National Metrology Institute) will use Digital Surf's surface analysis and nanometrology products in its work to develop measurement standards and analysis methods. continued
Leadis, Immersion to Collaborate on Haptic Feedback
The two companies will work to enable rapid haptics implementation for capacitive touch interfaces; Leadis also introduces two new PureTouch capacitive controllers. continued |
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