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- Company: FAUN TRACKWAY
FAUN LANDS NEW ORDER DOWN UNDER
FAUN TRACKWAY – the defence division of Llangefni-based FAUN-Zoeller – has secured a circa £800,000 order from the Australian armed forces.TRACKWAY’s UAV Landing Mat, which it unveiled for the first time at last month’s DSEi defence exhibition to an international audience in London, acts as a temporary runway for unmanned aerial vehicles.The agreement is the first ever sale for the new mat and a…
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- Company: Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group – Land Systems
Marshall Land Systems And Armatec Survivability Form Team To Tackle Canadian Special Equipment Vehicle Kitting Programme
Down selected companies form team to bid for Canadian DND SEV Kitting Programme to fit out in excess of 800 DND Shelters.Dorchester Ontario, Cambridge England 4th January 2012; In simultaneous releases Marshall Land Systems (MLS) Cambridge UK and Armatec Survivability Corporation (ASC) announced that they are forming a team to jointly respond to the tender for the Special Equipment Vehicle (SEV)…
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- Company: L-3 HARRIS Link Simulation & Training Division
L-3 Wins Recompetition for F-16 Training System Program
NEW YORK, December 19, 2011 – L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that its Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) division has won a re-competition for the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 Training System. L-3 Link has received an initial one-year contract to provide pilot and maintenance training devices support. This firm-fixed-price contract, with options through 2019, has a maximum…
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- Company: L-3 HARRIS Link Simulation & Training Division
L-3 Link Simulation & Training Announces Product Launch of SimuStrike™
ARLINGTON, Texas, November 28, 2011 – L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) announced today its introduction of SimuStrike™, a low-cost, full-capability flight simulator that will be used by the U.S. Navy to support F/A-18 training requirements. Four F/A-18 SimuStrike systems have been ordered, with an initial delivery scheduled later this year to Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River,…
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- Company: L-3 HARRIS Link Simulation & Training Division
L-3 Link Simulation & Training Announces Product Launch of SimuSphere HD-9™
ARLINGTON, Texas, November 28, 2011 – L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) announced today the introduction of its SimuSphere HD-9™, a low-cost, high-definition visual display solution that provides fast jet simulators with fully immersive training capabilities offered by the company’s HD World® simulation product line.The initial launch customer for SimuSphere HD-9 is the U.S. Navy,…
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- Company: BCB INTERNATIONAL LTD
Cardiff students visit ‘crème de la crème’ manufacturer
A group of students from Radyr Comprehensive School, Cardiff, were given a rare behind the scenes tour of a Cardiff-based company which makes gadgets for the military.As part of a Welsh Assembly Government backed scheme to help students understand the benefits and advantages of being able to communicate in foreign languages in the workplace, the Radyr students were shown around the Headquarters…
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- Company: BCB INTERNATIONAL LTD
First aid kit helps Atlantic rowers stay afloat
Two firefighters who are shortly set to row a grueling 3000 miles across the Atlantic for charity later this year have described a first aid kit made by marine survival experts, BCB International Ltd, as ‘essential’.In December, Cardiff firefighters Jamie Windsor and John Haskell will be rowing across the Atlantic to raise £100,000 for Help for Heroes, WRVS (Women’s Royal Voluntary Service),…
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- Company: Roke Manor Research
Roke Appoints Signals Intelligence Expert to Expand Electronic Surveillance Business
Roke Manor Research, a Chemring group company, has appointed Chris Slack as Signals Intelligence Business Development Manager.Chris will support Roke's product development team to drive global demand for its LOCATE strategic communications monitoring and geolocation systems, and will also deliver operational support to the successful RESOLVE Land Electronic Warfare product family. Chris joins…
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- Company: Avon Protection
NIOSH Approval for Avon Powered Respirator Offers Global Industrial Market Opportunities
Avon Protection’s premier powered air purifying respirator (ST PAPR), designed to enhance the capability of its new generation FM53 mask, has achieved National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) certification for industrial protection purpose. This will significantly open up global industrial market opportunities and underlines Avon’s determined move into integrated respiratory…
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- Company: Data Device Corporation
“New Development Kit Accelerates Design-In of the World’s Smallest Complete MIL-STD-1553 Solution…Total-AceXtreme™!”
Bohemia, New York (November - 2011) – Data Device Corporation (DDC) now offers a hardware/software development kit that provides engineers with time and cost saving design tools to quickly implement a 1553 board solution utilizing the world’s smallest and highest performance complete MIL-STD-1553 single package …Total-AceXtreme™. The kit provides comprehensive support to accelerate development…
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- Company: HESCO Bastion Ltd
HESCO barriers used to protect key infrastructure in Bangkok flooding.
HESCO, the leader in the design and manufacture of rapidly deployable force protection barriers, is assisting the Thai Government to protect some of its key infrastructure from the devastating floods, the company announced today. Applying the same technology that allows troops in war zones to quickly install life-protecting fortifications against enemy attacks, HESCO has been working around the…
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- Company: Data Device Corporation
Data Device Corporation (DDC) Recognized for Excellence by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems!
Bohemia, New York (November 2011) Raytheon Company presented supplier excellence awards to 39 companies for their exceptional performance in supporting the company’s Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business during 2011 at its annual Supplier Excellence Awards Dinner held on Sept. 26 in Los Angeles, Calif.The winning suppliers represent less than one percent of SAS’ supply base. They were chosen…
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- Company: Enterprise Control Systems Ltd
Evenlode Guarantees the Smooth Flow of Information
Reflecting its namesake - the Cotswolds river that provides a smooth and steady link to the Thames, Britain's most dynamic waterway - EVENLODE is a reliable and seamless data connection terminal.Launched recently by Enterprise Control Systems Ltd (ECS), the EVENLODE data terminal is the company's most technologically advanced product to date. ECS has dominated the UK Security Sector for over ten…
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- Company: Eurotech
Eurotech and IBM Contribute Software to Connect Next Generation of Wireless and Mobile Devices
Ludwigsburg, Germany, 03 Nov 2011 - EIBM (NYSE: IBM) and Eurotech (ETH.MI) today announced that they are contributing software to accelerate and support the development of a new generation of smarter wireless and mobile devices. The technology, which could become the basis for a new standard of mobile connectivity and interoperability, will be contributed to the Eclipse Foundation open source…
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- Company: Systems Interface Ltd
SOLAR RUNWAY GUARD LIGHTS FOR BELFAST CITY AIRPORT
George Best Belfast City Airport has become the third UK airport to install solar powered LED runway safety lighting. The Aviation Renewables Solar Series Runway Guard Lights, supplied by Systems Interface Ltd in Surrey, are nick-named ‘Wig Wags’, and are used at intersections between the runway and taxiways to safely guide aircraft and vehicles during night and day operations. The batteries are…
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- Company: Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group – Land Systems
MARSHALL LAND SYSTEMS PARTICIPATES IN GENERIC BASE ARCHITECTURE EXERCISE (GBA2)
Cambridge, 9th November 2011; A team from Marshall Land Systems has recently deployed as part of Team Castrum on GBA2, a demonstration of network concepts and standardisation for Forward Operating Bases, held at Caerwent, South Wales. During the demonstration to the MOD and other interested observers the team showed a generic base architecture (GBA) which enables information to be freely moved…
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- Company: Avon Protection
Avon C50 Configurable CBRN Mask Wins CE Approval
24 October 2011: Designed to give optimum CBRN respiratory protection and weapon manoeuvrability to both military and law enforcement teams, Avon Protection has announced that its C50 configurable mask has won C E approval – an essential product quality mark for meeting European marketing standards.The C50 is suitable for either right or left handed responders by using a recessed blanking plug…
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- Company: BCB INTERNATIONAL LTD
Minister visits Defence Company
Wales Office Minister David Jones visited Cardiff-based, BCB International Limited, which is making waves as a global supplier and manufacturer of live-saving specialist defence equipment.BCB International is an established leader in the field of protective and survival equipment and has become a trusted supplier for troops serving in operations overseas. The company has evolved from its early…
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- Company: Data Device Corporation
World’s 1st and Only 2-Channel Mini-PCIe® MIL-STD-1553/1760 Card!”
Bohemia, New York (October 2011) Data Device Corporation (DDC) introduces a lightweight, low-power, small form factor MIL-STD-1553/1760 Mini-PCIe card (30 x 50.95mm), available with one or two 1553/1760 channels. Designed for portable laptops, tablets, and rugged small embedded systems, this new Mini-PCIe card is engineered with DDC’s new Total-AceXtreme™ component. Total-AceXtreme is the most…
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- Company: Data Device Corporation
Introducing Total-AceXtreme™: The World’s Smallest, Ultra Low Power, Fully Integrated MIL-STD-1553 Terminal Complete with Transformers in a Single BGA Package!
Bohemia, New York (September 2011) Data Device Corporation (DDC) introduces Total-AceXtreme™, a complete, compact MIL-STD-1553 interface solution with transformers inside a single 16mm X 16mm package to save board space, and simplify 1553 design and layout. Benefits include:• Ultra Small Size Saves Space• Ultra Low Power Consumption Creates Less Heat• Real-Time Ultra High Performance• Replaces 2…
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