http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage.html Read the latest breaking stories from QinetiQ for the last three months. QinetiQ Ltd 2008 13 May 2008 en-uk QinetiQ and Boeing, as the leaders of Team ACTIVE, achieved the first ever link-up between the US Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) Network aircrew training system and simulation facilities overseas during exercise ‘Avenging Eagle’ http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/2nd_quarter/team_active.html 13 May 2008 Vancouver International Airport (YVR) will achieve another world first later this year when it deploys new cameras developed by QinetiQ to enhance its Tarsier runway debris detection system. http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/2nd_quarter/qinetiq_ensures_vancouver.html 08 May 2008 QinetiQ has signed an initial 11 month contract with the MOD as part of a £2m pilot study which will see a new joint MOD / industry naval ship design office established in Bristol - tasked with the design of complex naval ships for the Royal Navy http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/2nd_quarter/naval_design_partnership.html 07 May 2008 NASA has awarded QinetiQ North America’s Missions Solutions Group a five-year, $190 million contract to provide a wide range of environmental test and integration services to support projects at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/2nd_quarter/_190m_nasa_contract.html 24 Apr 2008 QinetiQ, a joint lead company in Metrix UK, has welcomed the confirmation of pre-contract funding for Package 1 of the Defence Training Review (DTR) programme. http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/2nd_quarter/qinetiq_welcomes_progress.html 01 Apr 2008 QinetiQ has today brought into service two important elements of the Combined Aerial Target Service (CATS) for UK armed forces, worth up to £308m over 20 years, having completed complex verification and evaluation trials on-time and budget http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/2nd_quarter/cats_in-service.html 01 Apr 2008 Designed for both mounted and dismounted infantry, QinetiQ’s miniature, low-profile acoustic Ears family of wearable, sniper detection and gunshot localisation solutions is based on a miniature single integrated acoustic sensor http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/1st_quarter/ears.html 12 Mar 2008 Future Soldier, in support of National Science and Engineering Week demonstrated how UK defence firms and the MOD are drawing on science and engineering to develop cutting edge equipment for the Armed Forces http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/1st_quarter/science_engineering.html 11 Mar 2008 QinetiQ and the MOD have signed a £951m firm price agreement confirming price, volume and availability for the Long Term Partnering Agreement (LTPA) for Test and Evaluation (T&E) and Training Support services for the next five years. http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/1st_quarter/ltpa_pricing_agreement.html 03 Mar 2008 QinetiQ has signed a sub-contracting deal with Boeing worth around £11m to undertake a significant proportion of the modification programme for heavy-lift Chinook helicopters. http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/1st_quarter/qinetiq_contracted.html 22 Feb 2008 Satellite imagery captured by TopSat, the micro-satellite designed and built by a QinetiQ-led consortium of British firms, has been provided free of charge to the United Nations in response to the recent earthquakes on the Rwandan / Congolese border. http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/1st_quarter/topsat_imagery_supports.html 18 Feb 2008 QinetiQ today welcomed a joint report on lunar exploration by NASA and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) that identifies the MoonLITE mission, in which QinetiQ is set to play a key role, as "the primary mission for potential cooperation." http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/1st_quarter/qinetiq_welcomes_nasa.html 15 Feb 2008 GRC Ltd, a wholly owned QinetiQ subsidiary, has just secured a contract worth over £60k to provide Paramarine Version 5 ship design software and its onboard variant Seagoing for Submarines to the Government of Canada. http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/1st_quarter/grc_canada.html 14 Feb 2008