The Army has awarded a $7.8 million contract to ITT Corp. to furnish on-site services and support for the control portion of the Defense Satellite Communications System. Under the contract, ITT’s ...

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The International Society of Automation (ISA) announces that the newly released third edition of its Tuning of Industrial Control Systems book simplifies modern control system tuning by eliminating ...

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