Week of Sun, 2008-03-16 00:00 to Sat, 2008-03-22 23:59

The Nissan Denki (Japanese for “electric”) Cube Concept is at the 2008 New York International Auto Show.

The lithium-ion battery-powered Denki Cube electric vehicle concept, which will be on public display at the Nissan exhibit at Jacob Javits Convention Center from March 21 through March 30, was created to draw attention to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.’s (NML) global environmental efforts. It also serves as a preview of Nissan’s future small car strategy for the North American market, which includes plans to sell a redesigned gasoline-powered, next-generation Cube at Nissan dealers in the United States and Canada beginning in 2009.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that Toshiba Corp.'s first multi-level cell (MLC) NAND-flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have started mass production. The initial models to begin shipping this month are 128GB drives in a lightweight, 15 gram embedded module form factor.

To achieve performance levels of 100MB/second read and 40MB/second write in these first generation drives, Toshiba utilized a SATA II interface and an innovative MLC controller supporting fast read-write speed, parallel data transfer, and wear-leveling. As a result, Toshiba SSDs achieve overall PC Benchmark scores that are better than 5400 rpm and 7200rpm HDDs and comparable to selected SATA SLC NAND SSDs3 . The SSD drives excel in Windows Vista™ boot speed, application loading, general usage and virus scan operations. Compared to hard disk drives, SSDs realize a number of advantages that address needs in the mobile computing market for performance, ruggedness, and lightweight, compact form factors. For more information on the Toshiba SSD product family, please visit ssd.toshiba.com.

Seventeen middle school team representatives from 11 schools around Iowa converged on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory on Feb. 22 to learn about hydrogen fuel-cell technology and to build hydrogen fuel-cell model cars.

The hydrogen fuel-cell workshop is a precursor to the upcoming Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Middle School Science Bowl competition, which will be held April 18-19 at ISU. On day one of the Science Bowl, student teams from 16 Iowa schools will spend the afternoon racing fuel-cell cars they have designed and constructed based on information and guidance their teachers received at the February workshop. On day two of the competition, teams will square off against one another in a Jeopardy-style quiz-bowl competition that tests their ability to correctly answer questions in math, chemistry, physics and other sciences.

Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem of quantum mechanics – one that is blocking efforts to develop practical quantum computers with processing speeds far superior to conventional computers. Their respective theoretical and experimental studies investigate how microscopic objects lose their quantum-mechanical properties through interactions with the environment. The results of the researchers’ investigations were announced at the American Physical Society meeting held March 10-14 in New Orleans and also reported in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science.

The SEC suspended trading in the securities of three companies that haven’t adequately disclosed information to investors and have been the subject of spam e-mail campaigns and promotional videos on the Internet site YouTube. The videos often repeat information in the companies’ press releases and are posted to coincide with traditional spam e-mail campaigns.

The Commission issued an Order finding that each of the companies subject to today's trading suspension — NeoTactix Corporation (NTCX), Graystone Park Enterprises, Inc. (GPKE), and Younger America, Inc. (YNGR) — has inadequately disclosed its assets, business operations, and current financial condition.

Toshiba Corporation has signed a general framework agreement with Atomenergoprom (Joint Stock Company "Atomic Energy Power Corporation"), the Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company, to explore collaboration in the civilian nuclear power business field. The discussion under the agreement will take place within the framework for the peaceful use of nuclear energy currently being envisaged by the Japanese and Russian governments.

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection will host a half-day roundtable discussion on phishing education on Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Phishing is a form of online identity theft that uses deceptive spam to trick consumers into divulging sensitive or personal information, including credit card numbers and other financial data, either through email or a link to a copycat site. The roundtable event will provide an opportunity for experts from business, government, the technology sector, the advocacy community, academia, and the media to discuss new strategies to increase awareness of the issue and decrease risky online behavior.

DANIEL MASCIA, 24, of West Haven, pleaded guilty March 17, before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with access devices and one count of fraud in connection with electronic mail. The charges relate to a “phishing” and “spamming” scheme that targeted AOL subscribers.

According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, MASCIA and his co-defendants conspired to “harvest” email addresses of AOL subscribers from the Internet. The defendants then spammed thousands of AOL subscribers with counterfeit emails purporting, for example, to convey an electronic greeting card. If an AOL subscriber attempted to view the greeting card, the subscriber’s computer would be infected with a software trojan preventing the subscriber from accessing AOL without entering information including the subscriber’s name, address, Social Security account number, credit card number, bank account number, and personal identification number. The defendants used the information to produce counterfeit debit cards, which they used at ATM machines, online, and at retail outlets to obtain money, goods, and services.

By incorporating VDO activities, the Chassis & Safety Division intends to become the leading global supplier of dry brakes. Series introduction on rear axles with electrohydraulic combi brake is already planned.

The Chassis & Safety Division of Continental AG will begin a series production of conventional brakes and electromechanical combi brakes with the new innovative approaches adopted by VDO Automotive AG which Continental recently acquired.

Each year around this time, John Tripp walks across a lunar surface, pondering the challenges ahead for explorers brave enough to take on its cratered terrain. For now, his "moon" is a winding ribbon of cement footpaths looped around Huntsville's famed U.S. Space and Rocket Center, where Tripp is a construction foreman.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has conducted the largest cyber security exercise ever organized. Cyber Storm II, held from March 10-14 in Washington, D.C., brought together participants from federal, state and local governments, the private sector, and the international community.

Cyber Storm II is the second in a series of congressionally mandated exercises that examined the nation’s cyber security preparedness and response capabilities. The exercise simulated a coordinated cyber attack on information technology, communications, chemical, and transportation systems and assets.

A B-1B Lancer from the 9th Bomb Squadron here became the first Air Force aircraft to fly at supersonic speed using an alternate fuel March 19 in a flight over Texas and New Mexico.

The fuel, a 50/50 blend of synthetic and petroleum gases, is being tested as part of an ongoing Air Force program to help the environment and to use a fuel produced domestically.

A former education consultant from California was sentenced to serve 7½ years in prison for rigging bids and defrauding the E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced. Judy N. Green, of Temecula, Calif., was sentenced in U.S. District Court in San Francisco after a jury found her guilty on 22 counts of fraud, bid rigging, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to technology projects funded by the E-Rate Program. The projects were at schools in seven states–Arkansas, California, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.

A cheap alternative to silicon solar cells can be found in dye-sensitised solar cells. This type of cell imitates the natural conversion of sunlight into energy by, for instance, plants and light-sensitive bacteria. Annemarie Huijser has succeeded in substantially improving a process in this type of solar cell, which is similar to Grätzel cells. Huijser will receive her PhD on this subject from TU Delft on Tuesday 25 March.

Materials known as photonic crystals could form the building blocks of future optical computers and micro-scale communications devices. Scientists have developed a low-cost and versatile way to make photonic crystals, and combined them in ways that bring optical ‘transistors’ a step closer.

European research on materials known as photonic crystals has made important progress in the race to build all-optical chips for computers and communications systems. The scientists developed a relatively inexpensive way to make high-quality photonic crystals, and showed how these can be integrated into conventional silicon chips.

Altair Semiconductor (Altair), a fabless chip company, has released the ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor to leading handheld device and module manufacturers. The ALT2150, the world’s smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor, implements full WiMAX Forum™ Wave-2 physical (PHY) Layer and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality, and offers substantial performance enhancements beyond this profile.

U.S. and Chinese companies are engaged in a joint venture to extract coal mine methane at the Hebi coal mines in the Henan Province in China. The project is being coordinated by Tulane University's U.S.-China Energy and Environmental Technology Center (EETC).

Central China Sakel Technology, Inc. is the managing partner of the consortium that was formed to develop combined U.S./China projects. Other participants include CMM Energy, LLC (Lake Oswego, Oregon) and Milestone Consulting, LLC (Frederick, Maryland). The $2.8 million investment follows a feasibility study that will define project parameters and the project will begin in mid- to late-2008.

Novell announced its development plans for the next generation of its enterprise Linux platform, SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will be designed to form the heart of the modern IT organization, providing a foundation for mission-critical workloads across the enterprise by leveraging new technologies for server virtualization, consolidation and appliances, as well as innovative client computing breakthroughs.

Regular production of the 2008 Tesla Roadster has commenced, marking an historical milestone for Tesla Motors and a watershed in the development of clean, zero-emissions vehicles.

First unveiled as a prototype on July 19th, 2006, the revolutionary Tesla Roadster generated an extraordinary response from people everywhere who were inspired by the vision that beautiful, high performance cars could generate zero-emissions and burn no oil.

A car body that thinks intelligently and protects its occupants at the crucial moment has been every driver’s dream for a long time. Research scientists in an EU project have developed an intelligent side-impact protection system that dramatically reduces the risk of injury.

One more second until collision. The cameras integrated in the doors have long identified the car that will cause the accident. Radar sensors in the car wings measure how far away the other car still is. 200 milliseconds before the crash, the new side-impact protection system is activated. The occupants are reliably protected at the crucial moment.

A new series of laser aiming and illumination devices are now being tested at White Sands Missile Range.

The compact lightweight devices are designed to be carried on a Soldier's weapon and provide multipurpose functionality. The new sight systems could be used to illuminate areas either to highlight them for tactical purposes, or to just enhance the capabilities of night-vision devices.

The first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1) is the inaugural ship in an entirely new class of U.S. Navy surface warships. The agile 377-foot Freedom will help the U.S. Navy defeat growing littoral, or close-to-shore, threats and provide access and dominance in coastal water battle-space. Displacing 3,000 metric tons and with a capability of reaching speeds well over 40 knots, Freedom will be a fast, maneuverable and networked surface combatant with operational flexibility to execute focused missions, such as mine warfare, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare and humanitarian relief.

The nation’s first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1), has successfully completed another testing milestone with the “light off” and test of the new warship’s electric plant. The first ship in its class, the agile, 377-foot Freedom was designed and built by a Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led industry team to assist the U.S. Navy in future littoral – or close-to-shore – operations.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have set the stage for building the “evolutionary link” between the microelectronics of today built from semiconductor compounds and future generations of devices made largely from complex organic molecules. In an upcoming paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society,* a NIST team demonstrates that a single layer of organic molecules can be assembled on the same sort of substrate used in conventional microchips.

Trolltech released Qt Jambi 4.3.4 to commercial customers and the open source community. Qt Jambi is the Java version of Qt, the framework for high-performance cross-platform application development. The release is available for customer use, evaluation and open source download.

Qt Jambi 4.3.4 is a bug fix release, which solves a number of issues identified by testing and customer / open source user feedback. In addition to professional support, Trolltech commercial license holders receive regular releases as part of their annual license. All improvements to Qt and Qt Jambi are also released to the Open Source Community through GPL editions of both frameworks.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) has a new plug-in that provides the Eclipse community with increased performance management and monitoring of Java software code. Called “CodeSleuth,” this new plug-in delivers the functionality of AMD’s CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer, a powerful suite of tools that analyze software performance on AMD processors, including Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. To help ensure that the plug-in is readily available to the Java technology community and evolves with the community’s needs, AMD is making CodeSleuth open source and available as a no-charge download within the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Microsoft Corp. has made broadly available a feature-complete release candidate of Microsoft Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization software available with various versions of Windows Server 2008. A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 when it launched last month, and this release candidate provides updated, near-final code.

Hardware industry partners including AMD, Dell Inc., Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hitachi Ltd., HP, Intel Corporation, IBM Corp., NEC Corp. and Unisys Corp. are also working with Microsoft to test and evaluate Hyper-V. Once final code is available, these partners plan to integrate support for Hyper-V into their virtualization offerings in ways that best fit their business, including pre-installation on servers, device support, solutions and services.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) has reported financial results for its first quarter ended Feb. 29, 2008.

In the first quarter of fiscal 2008, Adobe achieved revenue of $890.4 million, compared to $649.4 million reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2007 and $911.2 million reported in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007. This represents 37 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Adobe’s first quarter revenue target range was $855 to $885 million.

Vandenberg Air Force Base Airmen successfully launched a Atlas V rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office payload from Space Launch Complex-3 at 3:01 a.m. PDT March 13 here.

The launch was the product of the combined efforts of officials from the 30th Space Wing, the National Reconnaissance Office, United Launch Alliance, the Space and Missile Systems Center, and the Aerospace Corporation.

The Constellation Program has selected five space-related companies to receive contract awards for a 210-day study to independently evaluate NASA's in-house design concept for a lunar lander that will deliver four astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2020.

The awards total approximately $1.5 million, with a maximum individual award of $350,000. The study recommendations will be used to increase the technical maturity of the existing design in preparation for the development of vehicle requirements.

Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter’s magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a theory that has held sway for more than a generation and has important implications for protecting Earth-orbiting satellites.

Using data collected at Jupiter by the Galileo spacecraft, Dr Richard Horne of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Iowa found that a special type of very low frequency radio wave is strong enough to accelerate electrons up to very high energies inside Jupiter’s magnetic field.

Audi presents a new phase in the evolution of transmission systems. The seven-speed S tronic combines its dynamic working method with high efficiency. The new twin-clutch transmission is designed to work with longitudinally installed engines and the quattro all-wheel drive system, and its 550 Nm torque capacity makes it suitable for a wide range of sporty models. Audi will introduce the new S tronic into multiple model lines in series production during the course of this year.

Continental Airlines [NYSE: CAL], Boeing [NYSE: BA] and GE Aviation [NYSE: GE] plan to conduct a biofuels demonstration flight in the first half of 2009 in an effort to identify sustainable fuel solutions for the aviation industry. Continental is the first major U.S. carrier to announce plans to highlight technological advancements in sustainable biofuels that can help to further reduce carbon emissions.

Buying software to protect your home computer ensures it is safe from Internet viruses and hackers. When Air Force officials buy intrusion detection software for the service's computers, they don't browse through the aisles of the local computer store.

The Intrusion Detection Exploration Analysis team, a part of the Air Force Information Operations Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, tests commercial software for the Air Force before it is purchased.

A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives.

The invention and operation of this penny-sized electronic sensor, capable of sniffing out hydrogen peroxide vapor in the parts-per-billion range from peroxide-based explosives, such as those used in the 2005 bombing of the London transit system, is detailed in a paper in this week’s issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. A copy of the paper can be obtained at: http://pubs.acs.org/

The Davis/Sacramento FIRST Robotics Regional Competition returns to the Pavilion at the UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center March 20-22. Thursday is a practice day, and competition rounds will run all day Friday and Saturday. The event will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, and admission is free.

Thirty-seven teams including more than 1,000 high-school students from across Northern California will take part, competing for a range of honors and prizes, college scholarships, and a shot at the national championships in Atlanta later in the year. Local teams taking part include Davis Senior High School; Hiram Johnson High School; Elk Grove High, St. Francis High and Jim Elliot Christian High, Lodi; and a joint team from Woodland and Pioneer high schools in Woodland.

Ashok K. Hemal, M.D., a pioneer of urologic robotic surgery, will perform a robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy during a live webcast that begins at noon, Wednesday, March 26, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

Hemal, director of the Robotic and Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Program at Wake Forest Baptist, helped develop the initial surgical protocols currently used by most urologists performing robotic surgery. A. Karim Kader, M.D., Ph.D., and Joseph A. Pettus, M.D., specialists in urologic oncology in the Department of Urology at Wake Forest Baptist, will narrate the procedure and take questions from Internet viewers.

Agreements have been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement lawsuit filed by Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) against Verizon Communications Inc. on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox. Verizon distributes BusyBox to its FiOS customers in devices that are provided to Verizon by Actiontec Electronics, Inc.

BusyBox is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities commonly used in embedded systems and is open source software licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. One of the conditions of the GPL is that re-distributors of BusyBox are required to ensure that each downstream recipient is provided access to the source code of the program.

Some believe RFID chips have great promise for commerce. Others raise the specter of an Orwellian society where an individual’s every move and purchase are analyzed.

Whether one believes this RFID technology to be auspicious, suspicious, or somewhere in between, if that’s the road that commerce is headed down, then the Washington state Legislature just constructed the first techno-checkpoint of its kind.

Scientists at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany have completed the first ever series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Antarctica. This is the first time that unpiloted UAVs have been used in the Antarctic and the successful flights open up a major new technique for gathering scientific data in the harshest and remotest environment on Earth.

The OpenAjax Alliance has revealed new standards and open source initiatives for secure mashups, Ajax on mobile devices, and a unified browser wish-list from Ajax toolkit suppliers. Ajax is the technology behind most Web 2.0 applications, including the increasingly popular "mashup," a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience, and Web "gadgets," which can be placed into Web pages and social network sites.

Intel Corporation discussed upcoming leading edge microprocessors and technologies. Intel's 45nm high-k metal gate leading manufacturing technology is enabling the industry to move to multicore processors in all market segments, and Intel discussed future products with four, six, eight and many computing cores coming to the market.

Online advertiser ValueClick, Inc., will pay a record $2.9 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its advertising claims and e-mails were deceptive and violated federal law. The agency also charged that ValueClick and its subsidiaries, Hi-Speed Media and E-Babylon failed to secure consumers’ sensitive financial information, despite their claims to do so. The settlement, filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC, requires ValueClick to clearly and conspicuously disclose the costs and obligations consumers must incur to receive the products it touts as “free” and bars future violations of the CAN-SPAM Act. The settlement also bars deceptive claims about the security of the consumer information collected at its e-commerce Web sites.

Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM) has received a revised unsolicited non-binding indication of interest from EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), in which EMC indicated that it is prepared to offer to acquire the outstanding common stock of Iomega for up to $3.75 per share, assuming a total of approximately 54.8 million outstanding shares, subject to completion of due diligence. The Iomega board of directors, after consultation with its financial and legal advisors, has determined that the revised acquisition proposal from EMC would reasonably constitute a superior proposal as defined in the previously announced share purchase agreement that Iomega entered into with ExcelStor Great Wall Technology Limited, a Cayman Islands company ("ESGWT"), Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology Limited, a PRC company ("SETL" and, together with ESGWT, "ExcelStor"), Great Wall Technology Company Limited, a People's Republic of China company ("GWT"), ExcelStor Group Limited, a Cayman Islands company ("EGL"), and ExcelStor Holdings Limited, a British Virgin Islands company ("EHL" and, together with GWT and EGL, the "Selling Shareholders"), on December 12, 2007 (the "ExcelStor Purchase Agreement"). Based on this determination and as permitted by the ExcelStor Purchase Agreement, Iomega's board of directors has authorized Iomega to furnish information to EMC and enter into discussions with it regarding its most recent proposal. Pursuant to the ExcelStor Purchase Agreement, Iomega must provide the Selling Shareholders with at least 2 business days notice prior to entering into discussions with or furnishing any information to EMC in response or with respect to the EMC acquisition proposal. Iomega provided such notice to the Selling Shareholders on March 14, 2008.

Vyatta has confirmed its open source networking software scales to 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments, providing enterprises and service providers relying on high-performance networks with a robust, open alternative to expensive proprietary routers. Scalability tests were performed using IBM servers and 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards from Neterion.

The 10 Gigabit performance was achieved using open standard hardware, including an IBM System X3550 server and a Neterion Xframe E 10 Gigabit Ethernet card. Open solutions based on commodity hardware offer significant economic advantages for 10 Gigabit networking over proprietary systems.

The House of Representatives has passed a compromise surveillance bill that does not include retroactive immunity for phone companies alleged to have assisted in the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. The bill would allow lawsuits like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's case against AT&T to proceed while providing specific security procedures allowing the telecom giants to defend themselves in court.

Two hydrogen-fueled Ford E-450 shuttle buses to be used for transporting airline passengers between terminals at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) have been delivered.

The delivery is the result of a partnership involving Ford, the Wayne County Airport Authority and the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG). The project is being funded with a Department of Energy grant.

Status: Milestone A (MS A). Request for Proposal (RFP) released 5 February 2008.

Background: USD(AT&L) Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) dated 22 Dec 07, directed JLTV program to enter into the Technology Development Phase (TDP). The U.S. Army is the lead service with a Joint Program Office at TACOM (Michigan) under the leadership of the Program Executive Office for Combat Support / Combat Service Support (PEO CSS) and has an additional Program Office under the leadership of the Program Executive Officer Land Systems (PEO LS) Marine Corps at Quantico, Va.

The U.S. Army and Marine Corps co-hosted a three-day preproposal conference at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., Feb. 19-21, to inform industry of the U.S. government’s acquisition strategy for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Program.

JLTV is a Joint U.S. Army/U.S. Marine Corps program with the U.S. Army designated as the lead service.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have taken another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair.

The switch is an important building block to control the flow of information inside future chips and can significantly speed up the chip performance while using much less energy.

U.S. ethanol fuel production averaged 423,000 barrels per day in 2007, an increase of more than 34% over 2006 production, according to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). Ethanol fuel production totaled 6.48 billion gallons in 2007, far above the 4.7 billion gallons of renewable fuel required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Ethanol production will have to continue to increase this year, as the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 includes a new Renewable Fuel Standard that requires 8 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be blended into the country's fuel supply in 2008.

Biotechnology discoveries – like the method for creating synthetic life forms – are at risk of being unduly hindered or taken hostage by private corporations unless patent systems are brought into the 21st century, an expert from The Australian National University argues.

Dr Matthew Rimmer from the ANU College of Law takes a broad look at the current state of international regulation around intellectual property rights and biological inventions in his new book – and the prognosis is far from healthy.

The owner of an international electronics business has pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information arising from a conspiracy to illegally export controlled microprocessors and electronic components to government entities in India that participate in the development of ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles, and fighter jets.

The guilty plea was announced today by Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge, FBI Washington Field Office; Darryl W. Jackson, Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, U.S. Department of Commerce, and Julie Myers, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).