ELKHART, IN – BAE Systems has awarded EMS provider CTS Corp. a $24 million manufacturing contract to provide electronics assemblies for the A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
CTS EMS anticipates the manufacturing phase will commence at its California facility beginning mid 2009, and will continue through 2010.
CTS EMS will provide line-replaceable units for power control, system control and distribution.
MARLBOROUGH, MA – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted DownStream Technologies a patent for certain technology covering the automation of PCB documentation in an electronic release package file.
The patent is related to technologies in DownStream’s BluePrint-PCB software.
The patent further covers the core technology contained in the BluePrint-PCB shape engine, which is configured to display simultaneous views of a PCB CAD database; the use of reconfigurable objects that display different views of the CAD database; the technology behind BluePrint’s template elements that can be customized and linked to the CAD database, and technology that automates engineering change orders (ECO) in the CAD database as reflected in the release package.
BluePrint-PCB was released in 2006 for automating the creation of comprehensive electronic PCB documentation.
SAN JOSE – The Semiconductor
Industry Association is lauding the $15 billion set aside for funding scientific research programs as part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (HR 1) now headed for President Obama’s desk.
The bill includes significant funding increases for the National Science
Foundation, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the
Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Advanced Research
Project Agency-Energy.
SIOUX FALLS, SD – Raven Industries today said fourth quarter sales would
likely fall short of previous guidance. On the whole, Raven expects to report a
22% decline in fourth quarter net income on a 3% rise in sales.