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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With key positions on nearly every aircraft flying today, UTC Aerospace Systems will exhibit a range of products, in hall B, booth 4.8 at Aero India in Bengaluru, February 6( )-10, 2013. Products on display will span military and civil markets and offer critical benefits such as enhanced safety, improved comfort, increased precision and extended situational awareness. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Eagle Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: EAGL; EAGLW; EAGLU) (Global Eagle) today announced that, upon the closing of its proposed business combination transaction, John LaValle, the Chief Executive Officer of Row 44, Inc. (Row 44), will become Chief Executive Officer of Global Eagle, and Louis Belanger-Martin, the Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Inflight Alliance AG (AIA), will become Vice Chairman of the Board of Global Eagle. (Logo:...
NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- iLevel Solutions, the cloud-based software provider to alternative asset managers, announced the immediate and general availability of iLevel 5.6, the enhanced version of its portfolio monitoring platform. iLevel Solutions will unveil iLevel 5.6 for private equity and other alternative asset managers at this week's PEI CFOs and COOs Forum in New York City. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130122/NY43850 ) "Our team is excited to...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has added remote diagnostics capabilities to its Connected Farm(TM), an integrated operations management solution providing information exchange across the entire farm. Remote Assistant allows resellers and support technicians to remotely access the Trimble® FmX® integrated display using the Connected Farm Web portal and a DCM-300(TM) modem with data cellular service. The support...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today a new high-accuracy correction service available to the agriculture market. The Trimble® RangePoint(TM) RTX(TM) correction service is an introductory, cost-effective correction service available to farmers across the contiguous U.S. as well as most of Canada, South America, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Africa, Asia and Australasia. The RangePoint RTX service is ideal for...
THALWIL, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss-based u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a leading provider of GPS/GNSS and wireless semiconductors, has achieved successful satellite positioning using China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. The technical achievement establishes u-blox as the first GNSS ("Global Navigation Satellite System") component vendor to demonstrate compatibility with all globally deployed positioning systems: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and now BeiDou....
DULUTH, Minn., Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cirrus Aircraft today introduced its new SR-Series aircraft lineup for 2013, which is dominated by an order of magnitude increase in load carrying capability for the best-selling SR22 and SR22T. Increasing the certified gross weight to 3600 lbs. (1,633 kg) for both SR22 and SR22T, this new utility and flexibility allows an extra person and substantial extra baggage or cargo all while carrying more fuel in both of these 5-seat aircraft....
LONDON, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which started purely as a military application, has now widened to include all possible users - government agencies, industries, and even individuals. Frost & Sullivan analysis forecasts increasing prominence of Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) data derived from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and associated Value Added Services (VAS) in the next 10 to 20 years. As US and European...
PHOENIX, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has been awarded a $4.8 million contract to install health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) onboard the entire fleet of U.S. Coast Guard MH-60T helicopters. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080425/LAF040LOGO) For the U.S. Coast Guard, the installation and use of HUMS is critically important and paramount to the success of its missions. Unscheduled maintenance events can cause mission aborts that are...
BERWYN, Pa., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced the acquisitions of Aero Components International (ACI) and Avtech Avionics and Instruments (Avtech), both privately owned, FAA-certified aviation repair operations located in Miami, FL. ACI repairs and overhauls fuel, hydraulic, pneumatic, power generation and heat exchanger components and is one of the few independent aviation repair shops with fuel repair capabilities. Avtech's expertise is in...
