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Itek Corporation was a United States defense contractor that initially specialized in camera systems for spy satellites and various other reconnaissance systems. [1] In the early 1960s they built a conglomerate in a fashion similar to LTV or Litton , during which time they developed the first CAD system and explored optical disc technology.
As a result of that, the company bought the electronic firms Itek Corp. and Core Laboratories. In the early 1990s, Litton Industries split into separate military and commercial companies. The US$2 billion commercial business, which included Litton's oilfield services, business, and automated assembly line operations, was named Western Atlas ...
Itek KA-80/A developed for the Teledyne Ryan AQM-91 Firefly, [1] then also used in A-12, Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 [2] reconnaissance aircraft. Apollo Panoramic Camera
The recovery of the Discoverer 14 return capsule (typical for the CORONA series) A KH-4B CORONA satellite Discoverer 14 launch 1960, Thor Agena "A" launch vehicle. The CORONA [1] program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force.
Ken Olsen formed Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and took many of the early SAGE programmers with them, Jack Gilmore and Charles Adams started Charles W. Adams Associates, one of the first programming companies, and Norm Taylor went to work at Itek, who was attempting to build a computerized machine for retrieving photographs from a large ...
US itek is an American information technology services company based in Tonawanda, New York. Established in 1999 by David Stinner , the company specializes in managed IT services , cloud computing , cybersecurity , compliance solutions, and VoIP systems.
This category includes former defence contractors of the United States that now only exist as a shell corporation and/or brand or trading name. Pages in category "Former defense companies of the United States"
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, which group included IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the NCR Corporation (NCR), General Electric, and Honeywell, RCA and UNIVAC.