Broadcom Corporation, an Irvine, California–based $3.67-billion fabless semiconductor company focusing on wired and wireless communications, has closed its $143 million cash deal for…

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Fastrax has appointed Taneli Tuurnala, M.Sc., as the Finnish GPS manufacturer’s president and CEO. Previously, Tuurnala, who succeeds Matti Räty in the post,…

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After several false starts in the previous months and a multi-year delay in the overall GPS III architecture development, the GPS Wing (formerly…

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GSA Executive Director Pedro Pedreira (left) and Guiseppe Viriglio, ESA director of telecom and navigation, at signing of accord Having abandoned — for…

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Sometimes things don’t go as planned.

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A sea change appears to be taking place in Europe’s Galileo program as its political masters prepare to transform the struggling public-private partnership…

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin Company a $6 million contract to develop and integrate a demonstration payload that will temporarily…

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President Bush’s appointment of retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thomas Barrett as Acting Deputy Secretary of Transportation has brought a new co-chairman…

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Europe’s Galileo program continues to take small steps as it waits to see if it can get through an impasse between the European…

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China has taken the next step in developing its Compass GNSS system, launching the nascent system’s first medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite into…

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A convergence of developments over the past few months has brought Europe’s Galileo program to the most critical passage of its history —…

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Trimble of Sunnyvale, California, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire publicly held @Road, Inc. of Fremont, California, and has purchased privately…

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded two $50 million contracts to Boeing and Lockheed Martin to execute a system design review for the…

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L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC), Anaheim, California, has been awarded a preproduction contract for Advanced Three-Dimension Locators by the Department of Homeland Security…

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada’s NovAtel Inc. offers a new real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning solution, known as AdVance RTK, designed to enhance the precision and…

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