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3 unusual facts about Research and development


Convair Kingfish

In contrast, Convair had massive cost overruns with the B-58 and no secure R&D facility similar to the Skunk Works.

Henry Benton Sayler

After the war, he was given a position as a chief at the Research and development, Ordnance Department.

Quikcycle

QuikCycle is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and has R&D centers in the US and India.


Antlabs

ANTlabs’ years of research and development allowed the company to create products that focus on providing clear network technologies that are cost-effective and scalable providing faster ROI, making it cost-efficient.

Digital video

Later on in the 1970s, manufacturers of professional video broadcast equipment, such as Bosch (through their Fernseh division), RCA, and Ampex developed prototype digital videotape recorders (VTR) in their research and development labs.

Intel Tera-Scale

Intel Tera-scale Computing is a research and development program aiming at scaling Intel multi-core architectures for the future.

Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System

The system was invented and developed by Kinetic Pty Ltd, a small R&D company based in Dunsborough, Western Australia.

Lean manufacturing

These concepts of flexibility and change are principally required to allow production leveling (Heijunka), using tools like SMED, but have their analogues in other processes such as research and development (R&D).

Lexmark

The firm's corporate and research and development (R&D) offices are located at the headquarters in Lexington with additional R&D facilities located in Boulder, Colorado; Kansas City, Kansas; Cebu, Philippines; and Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Mitsubishi Motors Europe

The European design studio Mitsubishi Design Europe (MDE) and the research and development center Mitsubishi R&D Europe (MRDE) are based at Trebur in Germany, while Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports (MMSP), responsible for the company's record-breaking success in the Dakar Rally, work out of Pont-de-Vaux, France.

Pentosin

Around this time, Freudenthal recognised that car makers initiated specific product approvals, and Pentosin progressed their research and development (R&D) in this direction.

PHOSFOS

PhoSFOS is a research and technology development project co-funded by the European Commission.

Solegear Bioplastics

Solegear performs its R&D with the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia.

Taguspark

In an area of approximately 3.6 km², 2 km² of which are occupied by the Park, there are several research and development labs, innovative startups and business incubators in a range of fields such as information technologies (e.g. Microsoft, MIPS Technologies), telecommunications, electronics, materials, production, energy, environment, biotechnologies and fine chemistry.


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ABA Games

After leaving university, Cho contemplated professional games development but ultimately instead joined Toshiba to work in multimedia research and development.

Alberto Bustani Adem

From 1979 to 1983 Bustani worked in research and development for HYL then a subsidiary of HYLSA (now TENOVA HYL of Techint Group), a steel company based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico in the area of direct reduction of iron ores.

ARDE

UK Armament Research and Development Establishment, created in 1955 and renamed Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (RARDE) in 1962

Cheryl Gallant

She has also served as opposition critic of Canadian Heritage, Amateur Sport, the National Capital Commission, Science, Research and Development, the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, and Small Business.

Crystal Tools

Development was carried out by the Research and Development Division specifically established for this purpose and headed by programmer Taku Murata.

Eastwood City

Moreover, it is home of research and development companies for electronics and power supplies including Canon and Emerson Network Power.

Emergency Bandage

The application allowed Bar-Natan to become a part of a technology incubator program in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim, with a government grant covering 3/4 of the expenses connected to the research and development of the bandage.

Faculties and institutions of University of Peradeniya

A faculty of Agriculture was established in the University of Ceylon in-order to meet the requirements of man power for research and development of the agricultural industry in Sri Lanka.

FEI Company

The company has research and development centers in Hillsboro, Oregon; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Shanghai, China PRC;Tokyo, Japan; Brno, Czech Republic; and Brisbane, Australia.

Fred Judd

After demobilisation he worked for the company Kelvin Hughes on the research and development of marine radar apparatus, while writing articles for hobbyist magazines on radio and remote controlled models.

GÉANT

It was funded under the EC’s seventh research and development Research Framework Programme (often referred to as FP7).

He Zuoxiu

In 1987, He published an article claiming Marxist philosophy should guide the research and development of natural sciences.

Hwasong-5

This process was accompanied by the construction of a missile-building infrastructure, of which the main elements were the 125 factory at Pyongyang, a research and development institute at Sanum-dong and the Musudan-ri Launch Facility.

Intel Architecture Labs

Intel Architecture Labs, also known as IAL, was the personal-computer system research-and-development arm of Intel Corporation during the 1990s.

Iwatsu Electric

Iwatsu signed a patent license with RCA and began research and development of what was seemingly unrelated to Iwatsu's then-existing technologies.

James G. Mitchell

He was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.), where he managed the development of the first ARM RISC chip and was President of the Acorn Research Centre in Palo Alto, California.

James Powderly

In 2005, James became a Research and Development Fellow at the Eyebeam OpenLab where he began collaborating with Evan Roth.

Jerre Noe

Stationed in Europe during World War II, he conducted research and development related to radar, before returning to California to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University.

Karl Mey

After the merger of AEG, the Auer Company, and Siemens & Halske into Osram AG in Berlin, he supervised the whole research and development branch.

After receipt of his doctorate, Mey was employed at the Militärversuchsamt Tegel and then at the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft, where he specialized in research and development of incandescent light bulbs.

Lawrence A. Skantze

His initial research and development assignment was as project engineer with the joint Air Force-Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear Powered Airplane program in Germantown, Maryland.

Lee R. Scherer

He was special assistant to the assistant secretary of the Navy for research and development from 1956 through 1959, the period when Vanguard, Polaris, and ballistic missile nuclear submarines were developed.

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

After receiving documents and blueprints comprising years of British jet aircraft research, the commanding General of the Army Air Forces, Henry H. Arnold, believed an airframe could be developed to accept the British-made jet engine, and the Materiel Command's Wright Field research and development division tasked Lockheed to design the aircraft.

Max Bentele

Bentele revolutionized the field of corporate engineering, research and development, and was chair of the SAE until his death on May 19, 2006.

Meedan

Meedan has received more than $3.2 million in research and development support from IBM to further the development of its Arabic-English Automated Translation technology and to support Meedan’s ongoing work on “a social media sharing platform bridging the Arabic and English speaking communities”.

Michael I. Yarymovych

In 1962 he joined NASA Headquarters as Assistant Director of Systems Engineering on the Apollo project and later moved to the Air Force as Technical Director of the Air Force Manned Orbital Laboratory, and Deputy for Requirements to the Assistant Secretary for Research and Development.

MultiWeb Internet Browser

The browser was developed by the Equity Access Research and Development Group at Deakin University under a grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

NASK

Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa, or Research and Academic Computer Network, a Polish research and development organization

Naval Science and Technological Laboratory

NSTL was established on August 20, 1969 to undertake research and development of major naval systems and underwater weapons for the Indian Navy to make it self-reliant.

Osayuki Godwin Oshodin

Journal of research and development in education, University of Winneba, Ghana.

PAF Base Korangi

Pakistan's Integrated Defence Systems (IDS) and the military scientists from College of Aeronautical Engineering and Pakistan Navy Engineering College have been engaged in the research and development of UAVs and aerospace related technologies.

PointCross

The platform includes analytics decision support, collaborative research, and development solutions for drug safety in the Pharma industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Public Radio Exchange

The PRX site and services launched in September 2003 after a two-year planning, research, and development phase supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation.

Quebec Autoroute 410

Phase 2 will bypass Lennoxville, with a bridge built over the Massawippi river and culminating at R-108 near Glenday Road, Alexander Galt Regional High School and the Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre.

Rectal microbicide

Concerted advocacy for the research and development of safe, effective, acceptable and accessible rectal microbicides began in 2005, when International Rectal Microbicide Advocates was founded with colleagues representing the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the Canadian AIDS Society, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Program, and the Global Campaign for Microbicides.

Robert E. Cramer

In the House, Cramer was a tireless supporter of the International Space Station and a leading advocate for spending increases in missile defense, as Huntsville has long been a center for research and development of these two projects, as Redstone Arsenal—located in the district—is home of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Robert L. Hirsch

Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy.

Roger Hayward

In December 1968 he wrote "Blivets: Research and Development" to The Worm Runner's Digest in which he presented interpretations of impossible objects.

Sun Products

Sun Products has research and development facilities in Trumbull, Connecticut; Salt Lake City, Utah; Bentonville, Arkansas, and Toronto, Canada.

TAI Turna

The Research and Development Department of the Turkish Ministry of National Defence awarded a contract to the TAI in August 1995 for the development of a drone for use by Turkish Air Force and Army in target tracking and gunnery firing exercises.

Tea Research and Extension Station

The Taiwan Tea Research and Extension Station also known as TRES is the research and development center of Taiwan tea where scientists and tea masters conduct study, research and experiment to improve tea plantations, to develop new and better cultivars, to manufacture and educate the industry and consumers.

TmsEKP

It was developed on tmsFRAMEWORK, an application development framework (built on Java) developed by The Media Shoppe funded under the MSC Malaysia Research and Development Grant Scheme (MGS).

Ubay, Bohol

It is a PhilRice's national lead agency for the planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of all rice research and development activities in the Philippines.

Ulrich Bez

While at Porsche, he led Vehicle Research and Development and motor sport programmes in Formula One and World Endurance Championship in Indianapolis and Le Mans.

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Following early research at Harwell in Oxfordshire, the Government in 1954 selected Dounreay in Caithness as the centre of research and development.

Univox

Per Frank Kosinsky, Unicord's Chief Engineer in the late 1970s, as told to Rick Reinckens, a short-term employee, the brand name developed a market reputation as "cheap" because Unicord copied designs from companies like Shure and Electro-Voice instead of doing major original research and development.

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

The centre pursues research and development in a host of distinct technology domains including Aeronautics, Avionics, Composites, etc. primarily for the purpose of advancing launch vehicle technology.

Virtway

Virtway has maintained collaborations through the Índigo Group with University of Oviedo and Stanford University in different research and development projects.

ViXS Systems

Research and Development facilities are located in Canada, the U.S.A., China and Hong Kong.