Scottish Power is trialling 5,000 smart electricity meters in homes as part of a test that will simulate the national smart meter roll-out by covering both heavily populated and rural areas. The 18-month trial will see smart meters ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Scottish Power, Smart Meter
BAE Systems has signed a cooperative agreement with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for Phase 1 of a technical effort to transition gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology developed by the US Air Force to its Advanced ...
Tags: Microwave Products, GaN Technology
For the fourth summer in a row, five undergraduate students spent eight weeks at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute learning about solid-state lighting and investigating technology and application issues. The ...
The global market for airborne infrared countermeasures will grow at an average rate of less than 3 per cent over the coming five years – despite the ongoing replacement of flares with far more advanced laser-based systems. That ...
Tags: airborne IRCM systems, aerospace, defense
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, III-V-based electronic, Electronics
The UK Government has commenced a trial of self driving cars in Bristol and Greenwich and it will be tested on the public roads of Milton Keynes and Coventry. The testing comes after a UK Government review, which allowed the automakers ...
Tags: Driverless Cars, Auto Parts
The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive Series-E propulsion system to power four New Flyer Xcelsior 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses. The system ...
Tags: Transit Buses, cv
Proposals for future ship building facilities unveiled Friday, Feb 07, 2014 There are two potential investment options ahead of public consultations which are due to be held near to our ship yards in Govan and Scotstoun next week. The ...
Tags: Ship Building, Transportation, Service
A Tornado fighter jet fitted with metal components created on a 3D printer undertook a successful test flight in Britain last month, defence company BAE Systems said Sunday. The plane was equipped with a 3D-printed protective cover for ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, 3D-Printed Components
The Defence Secretary has announced £79 million of investment in the next generation of Royal Navy submarines. The Successor submarines, which will carry the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent will be the largest and most advanced ...
The MoD plans to commission three new ocean-going Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Royal Navy in a deal that will sustain jobs in the UK's warship building industry. The new ships, which will be built by BAE Systems at their shipyards on ...
BAE Systems has reached agreement in principle with HM Government on measures to enable the implementation of a restructuring of its UK naval ships business The agreement will result in: Restructuring of the contract for the Queen ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has selected BAE Systems Detica to manage its global IT estate for the next five years. The £40m deal will see BAE Systems Detica take responsibility for Service Management Integration for the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
BAE Systems has secured a contract to supply its hybridrive propulsion system, HDS300 system for the US-based bus manufacturer New Flyer. The HDS300 hybridrive propulsion system will be used to power a fleet of new 60ft low-floor rapid ...
Tags: Flyer, BAE Systems
During his eight years as chief executive of the PPMA,? member numbers have risen to more than 400 through mergers with a number of related trade associations. The last year has been marked by his leading the PPMA out of the joint venture ...