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Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

Cubic Receives Contract Extension for Delivery of Tactical Common Data Links to Support Watchkeeper Program

SAN DIEGO — Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS), a newly formed business division of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB), today announced a three-year extension award of $1.4 million from UAV Tactical Systems Ltd. (U-TacS) to provide additional Tactical Common Data Links (TCDL) for U.K. Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program. The Watchkeeper program,

Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

Airbus Defence and Space presents its Mobile General Ground Station at the 2016 Warsaw NATO Summit

Airbus Group – Airbus Defence and Space presents its Mobile General Ground Station at the 2016 Warsaw NATO Summit During the 2016 Warsaw NATO Summit, Airbus Defence and Space has showcased its newly developed Mobile General Ground Station (MGGS) to heads of state and senior NATO and national officials. MGGS is part of the NATO’s

Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

CyberCity 3D, Inc. Grows Asset Portfolio with New Patent Approvals for 3D Roof Modeling and Asset Management

CyberCity 3D, Inc., a top geospatial 3D modeling and streaming services company headquartered in Los Angeles County, CA (El Segundo) has announced that it has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in connection with the Company’s patent application entitled “COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROOF MODELING AND ASSET MANAGEMENT.”

Monday, July 11th, 2016

UTC Aerospace Systems Awarded Study Contract For Integrating MS-177 Sensor with the USAF Distributed Common Ground System

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 11, 2016 — UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), announced the award of a study contract to complete the integration of its MS-177 sensor system into the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS).  Awarded by Lockheed Martin, the contract will support the USAF and

Monday, July 11th, 2016

UTC Aerospace Systems Next-Gen Sensor Selected for Global Hawk UAS

FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW, July 11, 2016 — UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), was awarded a contract to support the integration and testing of the MS-177 multi-spectral imaging (MSI) and long-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensor onto the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).   Adding

Monday, July 11th, 2016

CompeGPS and Ordnance Survey team up to produce the ‘OS Range of GPS Units’

Ordnance Survey (OS) and CompeGPS are pleased to announce a new partnership to release a range of outdoor activity GPS units. The exciting move is being made ahead of the leading international trade fair, the OutDoor Show in Friedrichshafen, where the new GPS units will be unveiled for the first time. As leading brands in their

Friday, July 8th, 2016

Vexcel Imaging and Orbit GT Sign Reseller Agreement

Graz, Austria and Lokeren, Belgium, July 8, 2016 — Vexcel Imaging has signed an agreement with Orbit GT as a new Reseller of Orbit GT Oblique, Mobile Mapping and Indoor Mapping software products. Alexander Wiechert, CEO of Vexcel Imaging, is looking forward to the partnership: “After the first meeting with the Orbit GT team, we immediately

Friday, July 8th, 2016

Better Long-Range Sensors a Goal of Fundamental Optics Experiments

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.  – A pair of University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers aim to explore fundamental properties of infrasonic optical sensors that could make them more sensitive and accurate over long distances. The results of their research, which combines experiments and theoretical modeling, could impact future operation of these sensors in areas ranging from

Friday, July 8th, 2016

ESA’s Dragon Cooperation with China Extended to 2020

ESA and China have launched the fourth phase of the collaborative Dragon programme in Wuhan City, on the Yangtze River, which recently experienced major floods witnessed by Europe’s Sentinel-1 satellite. ESA and representatives of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) met in Wuhan to sign the cooperation agreement, which begins the fourth phase of

Thursday, July 7th, 2016

Study Tackles Public Health in Bangladesh Using Geospatial Tools

Geospatial information sciences (GIS) can help determine where diseases are spreading and where to target the resources needed to stop them, but spatial data isn’t widely used for health decision-making in many developing countries. That lack generated the idea for a recently published UT Dallas study to identify — and ultimately remove — barriers to