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Company History

• 1956 - Founded as Plessey Research Roke Manor Limited by the Plessey company.
• 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.

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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 both the British Army as well as foreign forces.
• 2000 - Won the 2000 Worldaware Innovation Award for work on land mine clearance.
• 2001 - Developed the Hawk-Eye vision based ball tracking system.

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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).

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External links

• Roke Manor Research Limited