Yesterday, eMagin Corporation announced that it has commenced a 2-year, $6 million program to develop an ultra-high resolution OLED microdisplay. Managed by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the program introduces the third phase of a multiple year effort to provide a prototype of an ultra-high resolution display system suitable for several applications within Army medicine and military simulation and training.

The Widescreen Ultra eXtended Graphics Array (WUXGA) microdisplay will be sized for a less than one-inch diagonal with over 7 million pixels at a 9.6 micron color pixel pitch. The program involves optic design for a wide field-of-view between 60 and 80 degrees.

Currently, eMagin’s OLED microdisplays already meet military specifications across diverse applications, including IR night vision and tactical situational awareness HMDs, in addition to being integrated into commercial devices such as thermal video cameras and video gaming systems.

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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is apparently 'astonished' to hear that Poland's Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, asked NATO and the US to deploy troops in Europe to provide 'some strategic reassurance', on a recent visit to Washington.  Since the scrapping of the US Bush-designed missile defense scheme which would have seen troops deployed in Poland and Czech Republic, the former has apparently been feeling vulnerable . . . Kim Zigfeld points out on Pyjamas Media that Russia's recent war 'games', which simulated a full scale pipeline-sabotaging missile-battering attack of Poland, taking place in the same month that seventy years earlier Russia did actually invade, is hardly likely to reassure the Poles of the ...

Two Investments to Add to Your “Green” Portfolio

by Louise Harris, Investment U Research

Green investing can be tricky.

That was evidenced after oil prices dropped last year and alternative energy companies saw their profits fall just as quickly.

Naturally, investor enthusiasm followed, as green ETFs like Claymore/Mac Global Solar Energy Index (NYSE: TAN) and Market Vectors Solar Energy (NYSE: KWT) have tumbled 45% over the past 12 months.

Similarly, the broad alternative energy portfolio PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy (NYSE: PBW), has declined by an average of 13.5% annually for the last three years.

But despite those woes, the alternative energy sector still has a few things going for it…

Popularity: The more scientists talk about climate change and how to prevent greenhouse emissions, the more popular alternative energies become. This is especially true in Europe, ...

The OCTOBER 2009 trading results of my computer generated RadarScreen follows.  I am not particularly fond of mechanical trading but who am I to judge how others choose to trade?  I prefer the discretionary approach based on other factors besides a signal generated by a computer program.  That is just me.  Most of these trades would have never made it to my discretionary screening.  And there are several discretionary trades that were never triggered in the RadarScreen.  Go figure!?!  With proper money management and discipline to enter and exit trades a disciplined trader can make money with a mechanical system, mine or otherwise.  It is all up to the individual.  This is really an experiment for me as I compete against the computer. My discretionary numbers are also listed below and are few in number.  I am very picky about my trades as you can tell. If you are a day trader

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CARBO Ceramics Inc. (CRR) has watched earnings estimates for this year and next rise sharply in the days following its third-quarter announcement on Oct 29.

< ?DART(15);?> Furthermore, with shares gaining more than 7.5% on a down morning for the market, CRR finds itself as a top-performing Zacks #1 Rank company. Volume is at 339,000 shares, approaching the daily average of more than 373,000.

CARBO Ceramics is the world's largest supplier of ceramic proppant, the provider of the world's most popular fracture simulation software, and provides leading fracture design and consulting services. It also provides a broad range of technologies for spill prevention, containment and geotechnical monitoring.

It is 1 of only 2 companies from the oil field services industry on the Zacks #1 Rank List, which includes 229 stocks today. The other company is Geokinetics Inc. (GOK).

CRR is also being featured today as the

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Before the opening bell, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL) released strong third quarter results. In the reported quarter, the company clocked earnings per share (EPS) of $2.12, soundly beating both the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.85 and the year-ago quarterly EPS of $1.73. Net sales rose 5% to $3.8 billion in the reported quarter from $3.7 billion in the year-ago quarter. The upside came mainly from the Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C3ISR) and Aircraft Modernization and Maintenance (AM&M) segments. However, these were partially offset by decrease in the Government Services and Specialized Products segments sales year-over-year. C3ISR segment sales rose 21% year-over-year primarily due to increased demand and new business from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for airborne ISR and networked communication systems for manned and unmanned platforms. AM&M sales increased 17% due to higher revenues from systems field support services, Special ...

Advanced Visual Systems, Boston-based producer of advanced data visualization systems, combines high-performance visualization software and ease of use in its AVS/Express offering, resulting in one of the most popular such systems in the world. AVS/Express is a comprehensive and versatile software system that allows any type and size of database to be processed and rendered visually, making complex relationships much easier to deal with. Support for leading 64-bit high performance platforms permits visualization of multi-gigabyte datasets. Cross-platform compatibility allows deployment on multiple systems without changing any code.

AVS/Express works with all leading platforms, and represents the most comprehensive solution for the development and display of complex scientific, research, and industrial data. Users can quickly customize solutions using a powerful drag-and-drop programming interface. One-click Wizards make it simple to import data, filter, annotate, animate, and add hundreds of data visualizations techniques.

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L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (LLL) is seeing higher Zacks Consensus Estimates ahead of reporting next month. The 2009 year forecast of $7.38 per share is up 7 cents over the past 3 month. For the following year, analysts polled by Zacks are calling for earnings of $8.16, representing 11% growth year-over-year.

Company Description

L-3 Communications supplies a broad range of products and services used in aerospace and defense platforms.

The company provides various systems, subsystems and products on many, including those for secure networked communications and communication products, mobile satellite communications, information security systems, shipboard communications, naval power systems, missiles and munitions, telemetry and instrumentation and airport security systems.

L-3 is also a prime system contractor for aircraft modernization and operations & maintenance (O&M), Command, Control & Communications (C3), Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) collection systems and services, training and simulation, intelligence services and government support services.

Customers include the U.S. Department of

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BVR Systems (1998) Ltd. (BVRSF) signed a $5 million contract to supply its EHUD Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation system. The company would not disclose the identity of the customer.

BVR Systems provides training and simulation services to the military and civilian aerospace industry, including live and virtual systems. The EHUD Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation system is designed to provide real time combat training of pilots to prepare them for actual conflict.

BVR Systems recently raised $3.5 million in capital through the issuance of a debenture to a private investor. The debenture has a term of 12 months. The private investor also received warrants to purchase 3 million shares of common stock at $0.18 per share. The warrants expire in five years.

BVR Systems reported net income of $3.3 million, or $0.03 per share, in the first quarter of 2009. Revenues were $12.5 million, up from $7.6 million

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Synopsys Inc. (SNPS) recently launched its new StarRC Custom parasitic extraction solution for analog mixed-signal (AMS) and custom digital IC design. This new technology has been formed through the combination of Star-RCTX extraction technologies and the Raphael NXT 3D fast field solver. The new product will offer better runtime and optimum accuracy to support the analytical capability of the highly sensitive circuits. This new solution is linked with Synopsys' CustomSim circuit simulator and also Synopsys' Galaxy Custom Designer implementation solution to improve runtime and designer productivity, while ensuring accuracy of the circuits. To address the issues related to simulation and severe bottlenecks faced by circuits today, Synopsys has come out with StarRC Custom, which will not only improve extraction runtime but improve the simulation process by optimizing data extraction. This apart, the company claims that it will be the first IP (Intellectual Property) vendor to ...