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2	Editor's Comment
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3	The Geopolitics of Defence...
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4	Paris air Show Reviewed by DefenceIntegration.org
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8	EADS Driving Technology Integration in a Global Security Environment...
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12	BAE Systems Develop an Efficient RF Cable Test Suite for the Eurofighter Aircraft...
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14	Heavy duty lessons...
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17	Autosport Trade Show Offers Golden Opportunity to Expand
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19	New military Vehicles Debuted at DVD 2007
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20	TRW Conekt Rises To The MoD’s ‘Grand Challenge’...
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22	MIRA AV Unmanned Land Vehicle Rise of the Machines
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24	Inflatable technology from the Romans to the present...
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27	Visioneering Forms Strategic Partnership With United Aerospace...
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29	BAE Steps Up Interest in Talisman Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) from Altanet...
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32	Eastbourne Air Show Review...
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34	Defence Integration.Org Visits Indian Space Research Organization...
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36	Raytheon's Military and Civil Defence reviewed by Defence Integration.org
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37	SAE International Hybrid Engine Course in the UK at Technium, home of Connaught Hybrids...
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39	DVD Millbrook Event sets a new standard in the representation of military vehicles...
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42	DefenceIntegration.org Interviews TCS
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44	National Instruments Automotive Solutions Conference...

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TRW Conekt has been hand picked to join a team rising up to the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) “Grand Challenge” a national competition to engineer an autonomous robot that can identify, monitor and report military threats in urban areas.

Lord Drayson, Minister of State for Defence Procurement, recently announced the 14 teams who will have just 12 months to carry out an ambitious task to produce their system s comprising of two unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). And next summer, at Copehill Down training facility in Wiltshire, the robots will be judged on tackling four common threats including a road-side bomb,

marksman from a window, a group of armed military personnel, and an armed vehicle with a rocket launcher.

Team Stellar’ will be led by Stellar Research & consists of TRW Conekt, Blue Bear Systems Research, Cranfield University, Marshalls Specialist Vehicles and Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS)

“Conekt is delighted to be in the Stellar Team competing in the MoD Grand Challenge” explained Alan Jacobs-Cook, Conekt’s Electronic Group Systems Manager. “We have a formidable

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