Boeing Co. (BA) delivered its first 777-300ER (Extended Range) airplane to GE Capital Aviation Services and its lease customer Philippine Airlines. It is the first 777 in the fleet of Philippine Airlines. The aircraft was packed with relief supplies for victims of Typhoon Ketsana.  The airline has four more of this aircraft on order with Boeing. In the recently reported third quarter of fiscal 2009, the company booked 96 gross orders. The company finished the quarter with segmental backlog of $254 billion.  The Boeing 777-300ER is among the most efficient airplanes in the 300-to-400 seat segment, which would provide the airlines the flexibility to serve key markets worldwide while offering its passengers the highest levels of comfort and reliability. Additionally, the aircraft brings new twin-engine efficiency to the airline's long-haul fleet.  The aircraft is powered by General Electric GE90-115BLs, the world's largest and most powerful commercial jet ...

The Boeing Company (BA) towed the first 747-8 Freighter model out of its factory in Everett. The long-awaited freighter is now being put up for test flights. The 747-8 Freighter is the new high-capacity 747 that will give cargo operators the lowest operating costs and best economics of any freighter airplane while providing enhanced environmental performance. It is 250 feet, 2 inches (76.3 m) long, which is 18 feet and 4 inches (5.6 m) longer than the 747-400 series Freighter. The stretch provides customers with 16% more revenue cargo volume compared to its predecessor. That translates to four additional main-deck pallets and three additional lower-hold pallets. Boeing to date has secured 105 orders for the 747-8 series aircrafts, 78 of which are orders for the freighter variant. The rest orders are for the passenger variant. The 747-8 Freighter series will boost the commercial aircraft segment of ...

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EMKR, EMCORE Corporation

EMKR provides compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and terrestrial solar power markets. EMKR is the world’s largest manufacturer of highly efficient radiation hard solar cells for space power applications.

** EMKR has been awarded a contract by Dutch Space of Leiden, The Netherlands to manufacture, test, and deliver the solar panels to power the Cygnus’ spacecraft being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service project.

The total value of the contract would be in excess of $15 million.

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Greatbatch, Inc. (GB) reported third quarter fiscal 2009 earnings per share of 32 cents, lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 38 cents and the year-ago earnings of 44 cents.  Sales Total sales in the reported quarter declined 11% year over year to $121.5 million. Excluding CRM/Neuromodulation, negative sales growth was witnessed across all business segments.   CRM/Neuromodulation revenues increased 5% year over year to $74.1 million. Growth can be attributed to higher demand for medical batteries due to increased market growth of these products. This was partly offset by lower capacitor sales as a result of inventory adjustments made by Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers during the quarter.  Orthopaedic revenues declined 39% year over year to $23.2 million. The decline was due to lower spending on elective procedures and the clients’ tight inventory management owing to the global economic recession.  Electrochem sales declined 16% ...

Emtec Federal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emtec Inc., an information technology (IT) solutions provider. Emtec Federal announced today that its Springfield, New Jersey headquarters received ISO 9001: 2008 certification demonstrating its focus on quality management.

ISO 9000 is a family of standards for quality management systems, maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The rules are continuously updated and were last changed on November 15, 2008, creating the current ISO 9001: 2008 standard. The ISO certification process ensures on-going compliance to standards of performance, and, once certified, companies are externally audited on a regular basis for continuous adherence to the standards.

Organizations that receive the ISO 9001: 2008 certification must offer a quality management system that demonstrates the ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. In addition, these organizations must also enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system,

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One of the highlights of the international biomass energy conference held in Mexico City on October 7th was a leafy green plant of which most people have never even heard of. The plant is called Giant King Grass (GKG), and its remarkable properties make it a potential solution to the search for clean renewable energy.

In a recently released summary of a presentation given by Dr. Carl Kukkonen, CEO of VIASPACE, Inc. (VSPC.OB), GKG was shown to be one of the best potential biomass energy resources on the planet, with a range of other applications as well.

If anyone should know about GKG, it’s Carl Kukkonen, and his enthusiasm carries a lot of weight. Holding his PhD in Physics from Cornell, Dr. Kukkonen spent a number of years at Caltech as Director of the Center for Space Microelectronics Technology and Manager

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PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT.PK) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully demonstrated its ability to provide rocket stability using heritage U.S. Air Force Peacekeeper missile system hardware during NASA’s first Ares l-X

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Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CVAT) has signed Miura Engineering Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan (www.miura21.co.jp) as its new agent to serve markets in Japan for CTI’s Nano-Cavitation Process Systems. Miura is a leading Engineering Company specialized in Edible Oil Processing Plants in the Far East.

ANADIGICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANAD) today launched a new family of 1GHz hybrid line amplifiers that leverage the Company’s high performance CATV amplifier technology and manufacturing experience to provide exceptional linearity and distortion

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VIASPACE is a clean energy company focused on providing products and technology that reduce or eliminate dependence on fossil fuels and other high-pollutant energy sources. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides raw material for cellulosic biofuels; develops and markets fuel cartridges, products and technology for methanol fuel cells; markets rechargeable lithium-ion batteries; and develops security-related monitoring and detection technology and systems for military/defense and commercial applications.

Through its renewable energy subsidiary, VIASPACE Green Energy, the company grows a fast-growing non-food grass that can be harvested four times a year. This proprietary grass is used for producing low carbon liquid biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol and green gasoline for transportation, as well as partially or completely replacing coal to reduce carbon emissions from electric power plants. Cellulosic biofuels made from non-food sources offer environmental and economic advantages over food crops, like corn, and

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This month marks Advanced Visual Systems Inc.’s eighteenth year of operations. The Boston-area company, which has provided software and solutions to over 2,000 customers and an estimated 10 million end-users, was one of the first to commercialize data visualization technology and now offers a lineup of six branded products that serve the diverse needs of global corporations, software makers, researchers and engineers.

David M. Murray, CEO, stated, “With nearly two decades of experience providing software and solutions to a long list of leading global corporations, AVS understands what all types of decision-makers need to succeed. Our early customers were software developers and researchers working on smaller, specialized projects. But for the past decade, our customers are more frequently executives trying to squeeze every drop of efficiency out of their business — and they are using data visualization as a key component of

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