For the moment, Europe's defence firms seem to be holding their own, notably as makers of subsystems and components.
Tim Fritzley of Intune Networks said the Belfast research and development centre would "develop key subsystems of our new product line".
The unit will include several air vehicles, a ground control station, satellite datalinks and various other subsystems essential to combat operations.
However when the economic and political adjustments have been made, the global system and the various subsystems will probably emerge stronger.
The effort has integrated several transportation subsystems to handle traffic management and monitoring, incident management and traveler information from one transit management information center.
Meanwhile, speaking of weakness in the storage market, storage subsystems provider Xyratex (XRTX) posted worse-than-expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended November 30.
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While the initial approach was to bring in key subsystems such as engines, transmissions and other from foreign companies, the present emphasis is on building up the supply chains in China.
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Over the past 15 years, a substantial number of commercial satellite systems, subsystems, components, and related technologies have become less critical to national security due to the transition from military to predominantly civilian uses.
The Mediterranean world sketched by Braudel and the world system across the Atlantic Ocean described by Wallerstein were nothing other than subsystems of the global system that encompassed Africa, the Mediterranean, the Islamic Middle East, India, China, and Southeast Asia.
The performance of critical subsystems and other lessons learned during its tests -- even those that prove to be less than fully successful -- contribute significantly to the maturing of urgently systems that can defend against short-, medium- and long-range missiles.
"Intel and Facebook are collaborating on a new disaggregated, rack-scale server architecture that enables independent upgrading of compute, network and storage subsystems that will define the future of mega-datacenter designs for the next decade, " said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer during his keynote address at Open Computer Summit in Santa Clara, Calif.
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