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■ Radio Corporation of Amei; Among U.S.The Radio Corporation of America, founded in 1919, is one : of the foremost companies in » the world in electronics and an important factor in Ohio's in : dustrial complex. The company has an annual business volume j approaching $1.8 billion, and is the 25th largest company in the United States. It has 167,000 stockholders and 88,000 employees, and its divisions and * subsidiaries operate 28 manu-■ factunng plants in the United States and 12 in foreign coun tries.RCA’s activities comprise world wide radiotelegraph and ; radiophoto networks, radio and television broadcasting, home | . instruments. electric components, electronic data processing, industrial communications, defense and space electronics, servicing of electronic equipment, and electronic research and engineering development.Space and DefenseRCA is playing an increasing-, ly important role in the exploration of space as evidenced by scheduled delivery- in 1962 of more than a score of major space packages. The company has e i t h e i prime or major subsystem responsibilities for such p r o je c t s as The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) high-1 ly successful Tiros weather satellites and their associated ground systems; the Air Force’s Satellite Inspector Program to seek out and identify other satellites in orbit; NASA’s Project Relay experimental satellite to test the feasibility of transoceanic telephone, telegraph, and television communications using an active repeater satel-Companies; ]lite, NASA's Ranger spacecraft to explore the moon; the Nimbus second-generation weather satellites; and the SERT vehicle, to carry experimental elec-i trie propulsion devices for sub-orbital flight tests Among RCA’s key military activities are: prime contractoror the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS); the development of methods fori! evaluating performance of missile weapons in flight; production of guidance equipment for the Bomarc Missile; communi- i cations systems for Projects Mercury and DynaSoar; devel- , opment, design and production of the Communications system ( for the Command and Informa- -tion Networks of Minuteman; . development of a broad micro- J electronics program for the U. S. Army Signal Corps, several laser programs for the , military services; numerous , military communication sys , terns, and a family of comput- , ers for military applications; , further development of automated ground air ground commu- -nications; the designing, manu- , facturing. and installation of | the equipment for the five | switching centers of the Air ] Force’s COMLOGNET, design , ed as the world’s fastest and i most extensive message and i circuit switching system, and lt;development of special commu- i nications systems for the i Navy’s Polaris submarine pro- j gram jHome Entertainment RCA has been a leader in the ] home entertainment industry 1 since the early 1920’s when it i first began selling radio sets.It was the first to establish a
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 28, 1963
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