In February 2015, the British aerospace, defense, and information security firm BAE Systems was awarded a new contract by the United States Navy. The initial value of the award is USD$28.4 million. With a duration of nine years, the grand total of the contract is an estimated USD$187.4 million. The nine-year DDG VI Radio Communications System contract calls for BAE Systems to provide systems engineering, production, and integration for 12 DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers and one DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer. Read more >>

General Dynamics has upgraded their Digital Modular Radios (DMR) to quadruple the United States Navy’s network communications capacity. The radio’s four channels are being upgraded with high-frequency dynamic routing (HFDR) software to double their channels to eight. Along with the HFDR, the high-frequency virtual channel exploitation software increases the DMR’s virtual channels to 16 while using the high frequency line-of-sight and ultra-high frequency satellite communications frequencies. Read more >>

On January 30, 2015, the American aerospace and defense company L-3 Communications won two Enterprise Program Management contracts that have a total value of USD$367 million. Granted by the National Security Agency (NSA) to L-3’s National Security Solutions (NSS) business, the five-year contract calls for L-3 Communications to supply systems engineering, acquisition planning, program management, and financial management for the National Security Agency’s key mission areas. Although the contract’s value is USD$367 million, the maximum ceiling value of the two contracts over a period of five years totals to approximately USD$1 billion. With the contract, L-3 Communications looks to provide the National Security Agency with an affordable solution to increase the government agency’s capabilities in national security and defense. Read more >>

On January 13, 2015, the subsidiary of the British aerospace engineering company Meggitt, Meggitt Training Systems, was awarded a USD$31.7 million contract from the United States Marine Corps System Command Program Manager for Training Systems. This contract calls for Meggitt Training Systems to cultivate and provide an innovative training system called the Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainers (ISMT). This new system will give the US Marine Corps a lifelike, state-of-the-art virtual small arms training for marksmanship, cooperative and judgmental situations. The USD$31.7 million award puts into agreement a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract which, in addition to the system and weapon simulator, will provide the installation and support of more than 670 systems at domestic and worldwide US Marine Corps sites. Read more >>

KOA was established by Kazuto Mukaiama in Tokyo to manufacture fixed resistors in 1940. Fifteen years later in 1955 they became an authorized manufacturer of JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards) parts. Finally in 1980, 40 years after being founded, KOA Speer Electronics, Inc. is established in the United States. Then in 1994 KOA obtained their quality control ISO 9002 certification and in 1996 they obtained their ISO 9001 certification. Tama Electric Co., LTD. was acquired by KOA Group in August 2001. Read more >>

Headquartered in Glendale, California, Glenair, Inc began operations in 1956. They produce a full line of products to meet every interconnect requirement. They have a broad range of military qualified and commercial connectors. In fact they boast the largest standing inventory of commercial and Mil-Spec electrical connector accessories. Their entire product line is manufactured in the USA, England, or Italy. Read more >>

Dialogic, Inc. was founded in Montreal, Canada 1984 as Eicon Networks Corporation. In 1999, the company was acquired by Intel but has since divested. In 2006, Eicon bought the Media & Signaling Division of Intel and became Dialogic. Read more >>

Headquartered in Bethel, Connecticut, Del-Tron Precision, Inc. was founded in 1974 as the world’s first supplier of commercially available sub-miniature ball slides. Del-Tron has distribution centers worldwide including within the United States, Canada, and Germany and sales locations in Japan and throughout Southeast Asia. The company offers components for automated equipment manufacturers, particularly anti-friction linear bearings for modern industrial equipment. Original equipment manufacturers use Del-Tron’s products for applications which include medical diagnostic equipment, semiconductor-processing equipment, computer peripherals, assembly systems, and scientific instruments. Read more >>

Vishay-Draloric primarily manufactures MELF (metal electrode leadless face) resistors and ceramic capacitors, but also offers thin film flat chip resistors, leaded film and wirewound resistors, and large ceramic power capacitors. In 1900 in Selb, Germany, Philip Rosenthal began manufacturing ceramics for electronic applications as a side business to his main concern in porcelain tableware. Read more >>

Qualcomm is headquartered in San Diego, California and operates 157 locations worldwide. They were founded in 1985 to produce the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service. In 1990 they began designing the first CDMA based cellular base station. Two years later CDMA cell phones, base stations, and chips started being manufactured. Qualcomm was instrumental in established the CDMA2000, WCDMA and LTE cellular standards. In 2013 they recorded revenue of nearly $25 billion, at the time they employed 26,000 people worldwide. Read more >>