Search

The Italian Government is to provide state-owned holding company Finmeccanica with a massive cash boost. It comes ahead of an expected agreement with British Aerospace over the future of its [...]

GEC-Marconi, Radar and Defence Systems, Command and Information Systems Division, which is based in Frimley, Hampshire, UK, is developing a system called the Clear And REnder Safe System (CARESS) to provide solution to global mineclearing problem. The company, which focuses on sensor development and command control, said CARESS will be an absolute mineclearing command and control system, which is able to integrate physical, statistical, geographical and demographic information. It will also integrate airborne, vehicle-mounted and hand-held sensor data along with maps and other information.

The British Army has completed an extensive series of user trials for the competing automatic pointing system (APS) proposals from British Aerospace Systems and Equipment-York (BASE-York) and GEC-Marconi. The tests were conducted to help in deciding which of the two bids will be selected to supply the service's requirement for 160 APS units for use with towed artillery systems deployed by the Royal Artillery. BASE-York offered its APS that is also known as the Modern Artillery Sighting System and developed according to the companies' broad proficiency in artillery sighting systems, while GEC-Marconi's bid includes the control and display unit of the Arachnida Weapon Management System.

The consortium consisted of British GEC-Marconi, Italian Elettronica and Spanish Indra has landed a production investment contract worth $276 million to create facilities to supply the Eurofighter Defensive Aids Sub-System (EURODASS). The EURODASS features spherical electronic surveillance measure coverage, forward and real missile warning, fiber-optic towed decoys, active phased array jamming and future growth capability. GEC-Marconi has been involved with full avionics evaluation at its Stanmore, UK, facility test rig for the system, which is expected to be fitted to an aircraft by early 1999.

Defence giant GEC-Marconi is talking to a range of marketing and communications agencies in an attempt to change its image. GEC-Marconi admits it is in the initial stages of an […]

GEC-Marconi is dismantling its radio communications factory because of the declining defence market Melanie Tringham Guglielmo Marconi will be turning in his grave. The scientist who discovered radio and founded [...]