Kearfott Guidance & Navigation

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Kearfott was a defence manufacturer founded in 1917. Today the electronics division is part of BAE Systems while the remaining Kearfott Guidance & Navigation division is a subsidiary of the Astronautics Corporation of America.

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Kearfott was founded in 1917 as The Kearfott Company Inc., becoming the Kearfott Division of the General Precision Equipment Corporation in 1955 and then in 1968 the Kearfott Division of The Singer Company.

In 1987 Singer split Kearfott; the Kearfott Guidance & Navigation division was sold to the Astronautics Corporation of America in 1988 and the Electronic Systems Division was purchased by GEC-Marconi in 1990 and renamed GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems.

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