Roke Manor Research Limited
- Roke Manor Research Limited
Infobox_Company
company_type = Limited Company
company_
company_name = Roke Manor Research Limited
foundation = 1956
location = flagicon|UK Romsey, United Kingdom
key_people = Dr. David Smith, Managing Director
Andrew Baynes, Commercial Director
area_served = Worldwide
num_employees = Approximately 475 (2006)
parent = Siemens
homepage = [http://www.roke.co.uk/ www.roke.co.uk]
Founded in 1956, Roke Manor Research Limited is a UK company based at Roke Manor in Romsey, Hampshire. It is a contract research and development business for communications, networks, and electronic sensors. In addition to supporting Siemens AG, work is also conducted in both the public and private sectors.
Company History
*1956 - Founded as Plessey Research Roke Manor Limited by the Plessey company. [cite web| url = http://www.roke.co.uk/about/history.php| title = History of Roke| accessdate = 2007-06-04| year = 2007| work = www.roke.co.uk| publisher = Roke Manor Research Limited] The first managing director was Harold J. Finden, an electrical engineer at Plessey.
*1990 - Passed to GEC-Siemens AG in a joint takeover.
*1991 - Became wholly owned by Siemens AG when GEC sold their 50% shareholding to Siemens Plessey Electronic Systems.
Technology
*1960 - Working prototype memory systems developed for the then supercomputer, Atlas.
*1975 - Designed and developed the World's first monolithic Gallium Arsenide microwave circuit.
*1995 - Work began on the Hostile Artillery LOcation system (HALO), an acoustic locator of guns and mortars. HALO was developed to monitor ceasefire violations in Yugoslavia, and is in use with the British Army and other nations.
*2000 - Won the [http://www.worldaware.org.uk/awards/awards2000/rokemanor.html 2000 Worldaware Innovation Award] for work on land mine clearance.
*2001 - Developed the Hawk-Eye vision based ball tracking system.
Products
* Vigilance - a wide area multilateration system for tracking aircraft.
* Miniature Radar Altimeters (MRA) - a range of MRA products primarily designed for use on Airborne Targets and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
* Epsilon - a software tool designed to predict the Radar Cross Section (RCS) of a target directly from its geometrical description.
External links
* [http://www.roke.co.uk/ Roke Manor Research Limited]
References
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