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SSE Telecom Inc. [SSET] has named Tom Breeden vice president, business development. He previously served as vice president and general manager of SSE DataCom. (SSE Telecom, 47823 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont,...

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] announced last week it had awarded Government Systems Inc. a five-year, $15 million network services contract to provide end- to-end managed data services for the Globalstar Data...

Hughes Communications Inc. [GMH] has upgraded its web site, introducing new customer service and information resources. One new section includes the bi annual Sun outages that can impact every satellite...

Racal Avionics‘s contract to upgrade all of the Royal Navy’s front-line helicopters with GPS has increased in value, the company said. The new contract will make the total contract worth...

A new study from Mountain View, Calif.-based Frost & Sullivan titled "World Airport Ground Equipment Markets" envisions a huge market for GPS-based landing systems. The study says that the biggest...

Trimble Navigation’s [TRMB] 8100 GPS Navigation Management System received the FAA’s Supplemental Type Certification. The units are being installed in Eastern Australia Airlines‘ aircraft. (Lea Ann McNabb, Trimble, 408/481-7808.)

Navigation Technologies (NavTech) recently licensed its navigable map data base to Comdata RoTec for use in a routing and scheduling system. The NavTech products used are LoadPlanner, ServicePlanner and R.S.V.P....

Litton Guidance & Control Systems division [LIT] recently won a contract for replacement navigation equipment for the U.K. Royal Navy’s Sea Harrier ship-borne aircraft. The company’s LN-100G INS/GPS product, which...

It used to be one the larger GPS markets–maybe the largest at one time–but increased competition and regulatory issues have made recent commercial and consumer marine market growth one of...

Henniker, N.H.-based MPN Components Inc.’s new GPS Pro Map features software from Blue Marble Geographics. The unit is compatible with most GPS handheld receivers for office or field mapping applications,...