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HRL to Continue Work on Low-Power MEMS Sensors for Navigation

MALIBU, Calif., June 29, 2010—HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it is working in partnership with Boeing Research and Technology, Boeing's advanced, central research, technology and innovation organization, to develop a navigation-grade quartz disk-ring gyroscope under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Navigation-Grade Integrated Micro Gyroscope (NGIMG) program.

The goal of the program is to develop compact, low-power, rotational rate sensors capable of achieving navigational-quality performance. The technology is particularly useful in augmenting the Global Positioning System and will provide navigation capabilities to small military platform applications, including foot soldiers, unmanned micro-air vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles and micro robots.

HRL's breakthroughs in quartz microelectronmechanical, or MEMS processing have realized opportunities for fabrication of high-performance miniaturized inertial sensors. In this final phase of the NGIMG program, HRL will continue to refine an all-quartz, disk-ring gyroscope technology to integrate these sensors with Boeing's low-power electronics package. This navigation technology will enable new defense applications and deployment scenarios, providing improved size, weight, power and performance.

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HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California (www.hrl.com) is a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. HRL provides custom research and development and performs additional R&D contract services for its LLC member companies, the U.S. government, and other commercial companies.

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