Roke Manor Research

Roke Manor Research
Limited Company
Founded 1956
Headquarters Romsey, United Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
David Cole, Managing Director
Ian Cooper, Finance Director
Number of employees
Approximately 475 (2006)
Parent Chemring Group PLC[1]
Website www.roke.co.uk

Roke Manor Research Limited is a UK company based at Roke Manor in Romsey, Hampshire. It is a contract research and development business for communications, networks, and electronic sensors. In addition to supporting Chemring, work is also conducted in both the public and private sectors. The company also created Hawk-Eye [2] which is now used widely in sports such as tennis and cricket.

Roke has been part of the Chemring Group since 2010, having been initially founded as part of the Plessey company and then subsequently owned for almost 20 years by Siemens.

Company history

Technology

Products

References

  1. "Roke Manor Research - Chemring Group PLC". www.chemring.co.uk. Chemring Group PLC. 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
  2. "About Hawk-Eye". Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. "History of Roke". www.roke.co.uk. Roke Manor Research Limited. 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  4. Wilson, Amy (2010-08-11). "Chemring buys Roke from Siemens". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
  5. "Completion of acquisition of Roke". Chemring Group PLC. 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  6. "Recalling Early GaAs MMIC Developments". Microwaves & RF. March 2009. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
  7. "Hostile Artillery LOcation (HALO) System". Jane's Information Group. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2010-08-16. Jane's Military Communications
  8. "The Worldaware Award 2000 for Innovation". Worldaware. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  9. Hughes, Simon (2000-11-15). "How's that then for hi-tech?". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
  10. Owens, N., Harris, C., Stennett, C. (2003). "Hawk-eye tennis system". International Conference on Visual Information Engineering, 2003. VIE 2003.
  11. "RESOLVE tactical EW manpack system". Jane's Information Group. 2011-08-03. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
  12. "Roke Electronic Warfare System Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise". Roke Manor Research Limited. 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
  13. "A List of the 2011 and Previous Winners of The Queen's Award for Innovation" (PDF). Business Link. 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
  14. Harman, Martin (September 2006). "More Room On Top". Engineering & Technology (IET).
  15. "Roke MRA receives ingress protection certification". Shephard Press Limited. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  16. "LOCATE - Strategic HF Signals Intelligence". Roke Manor Research Limited. Retrieved 24 June 2011.

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Coordinates: 50°59′57″N 1°31′13″W / 50.999044°N 1.520179°W / 50.999044; -1.520179

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