Terminal guidance is provided by an active radar seeker which is a joint development ( June 2003 ) between MBDA's Seeker Division and Thales Airborne Systems and builds on their co-operation on the 4A ( Active Anti-Air Seeker ) family of seekers that equip the MICA and ASTER missiles.

The contract was awarded to Thales in March 2003.

Starting in 2001, two major DDS vendors, the American group Real-Time Innovations and the French Thales Group ( this product is now part of PrismTech's OpenSplice DDS ) teamed up to create the DDS specification which was subsequently approved by the Object Management Group resulting in Version 1. 0 in 2003.

Provision for Local Loop Unbundling was introduced in Gibraltar, under the 2006 Communications Act, similar to the UK's 2003 Communications Act.

* 2003 First ever President of Leukaemia Research, the UK's leading blood cancer charity.

These weaknesses were major contributors to the UK's erroneous assessments of Iraq's ' weapons of mass destruction ' prior to the 2003 invasion of that country.

The NZ Tertiary Education Commission's first Performance Based Research Fund ranking exercise in 2003 — equivalent to the UK's RAE — ranked the quality of Lincoln University's research at sixth place.

September 2003 saw Nik Powell, one of the UK's leading producers, to take over from Bayly.

The NATS PPP saw 51 % of the UK's air traffic control service transferred to the private sector, however following the decline in air traffic after the September 11 attacks, the Government and BAA Limited each invested £ 65m in the private sector operator in 2003.

In 2003 he pushed successfully to have Council of Europe officials look into the UK to assess whether it is necessary to officially monitor the UK's voting procedures.

In July 2003, S & N acquired the Bulmers cider business, adding the Strongbow, Scrumpy Jack and Woodpecker brands to its portfolio, together with the UK's biggest cider mill and orchards in Hereford.

The playing fields adjoining the Pontardawe Leisure Centre at Parc Ynysderw are one of the UK's 471 King George Fields established as a memorial to King George V. They were officially transferred to their present site in 2003 and occupy land which formerly belonged to the tinplate works but is now owned and maintained by the local authority.

In September 2003, Greenstock was appointed the UK's Special Representative for Iraq, where he worked alongside Paul Bremer within the Coalition Provisional Authority.

In 2004, she presented the UK's premier and longest-running arts programme The South Bank Show and was a judge for the 2003 RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture.

In 2003, The National Student, the UK's first independent national student newspaper was launched.

In 2003 she served as a judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK's largest annual literary award.

He debuted in the UK's Asian Underground scene as a member of the Rishi Rich Project with " Dance with You ", which reached # 12 on the UK Singles Chart in 2003.

From 2003 to 2005 he was overseas Director of QinetiQ, the UK's part-privatised National Defence laboratory.

The following year Chief Executive David Harding was awarded a £ 2. 84m bonus, making him the UK's fifth highest paid company director in 2003.

However the higher-education rate in the country still remains the lowest in the European Union, this rate was around 7 % in 2003 ( Source: OECD ( 2003 ) Education at a Glance and OECD Statistical Compendium ), and improved to 11 % in 2007-as compared to Slovakia's and Slovenia's around 16 %; Germany's, Estonia, Spain's and Ireland's 28 %; or Belgium's, Netherland's, Denmark's, Finland's, Cyprus's and UK's, over 30 % ( Source: EuroStat, March 2007 ).

As well as staging yet another GlobalGathering, 2003 saw Godskitchen embark on an arena tour, selling out parties at the Telewest Arena in Newcastle upon Tyne and The National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, the UK's largest venue.

Aviation fuel tankers up to 120, 000 dwt can discharge at the Bristol Aviation Fuel Terminal which opened in 2003, and feeds directly into the UK's pipeline and storage network.

Andrew McIntosh was the UK's Minister for the Media and Heritage at the Department for Culture Media and Sport from 2003 to 2005.

Koolhaas's design won the Architekturpreis Berlin in 2003 and the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 2005.

* Retail design for Prada stores ( New York: 2003, Los Angeles: 2004 )

Development of new MIPS microprocessors stopped, and the existing R12000 design was extended multiple times until 2003 to provide existing customers more time to migrate to Itanium.

According to the Intranet design annual 2007 from Nielsen Norman Group, the number of pages on participants ' intranets averaged 200, 000 over the years 2001 to 2003 and has grown to an average of 6 million pages over 2005 – 2007.

The first patented design of a water ski that included carbon fiber was that of Hani Audah at SPORT labs in 2001, and its first inclusion in tournament slalom skiing was in 2003.

Rebadged as the Ram Van and Ram Wagon for 1981, this venerable design carried on for 33 years with little more than cosmetic updates all the way to 2003.

Three designers are widely considered the pioneers of that movement and of logo and corporate identity design: The first is Chermayeff & Geismar, which is the firm responsible for a large number of iconic logos, such as Chase Bank ( 1964 ), Mobil Oil ( 1965 ), PBS ( 1984 ), NBC ( 1986 ), National Geographic ( 2003 ) and others.

Dodge ended production of their full-size vans in June 2002 ( as 2003 models ), and replaced it with the German originated Dodge Sprinter, which is based on a narrower, more fuel-efficient European design pattern with a diesel turbo I5.

They kept this design until the 2006 – 07 season, during which the NHL switched color designations on home and away jerseys in the 2003 – 04 season.

The XFL used a novel color pattern, a black ball with red curved lines in lieu of stripes, for its footballs ; this design was redone in a tan and navy color scheme for the Arena Football League in 2003.

The gaming center was closed by March 2001 and eventually Wizards announced in December 2003 that it would close all of its stores in order to concentrate on game design.

One of the many variants of the orange logo, commonly known for the ' splat ' design, used from October 8, 1984 to September 28, 2009 ; this particular version was used as the main logo from April 2003 to September 28, 2009, and was still used on Nickelodeon Arabia | the Arabian version of Nickelodeon until its closure in 2011, and is still used on newer products in tandem with the current logo.

It is usually a design goal of digital systems to limit high-level signals to prevent overload ( Dunn 2003: 65 ).

* In 2003, Bombardier announced a conceptual design for such a device used as a sport vehicle, the EMBRIO.

Chris Smallwood then established Bugbugs, which grew to be the largest fleet of human powered vehicles in Western Europe by 2004. Today it is possible to hire rickshaws from many diferent companies in London, however the biggest and most established ones remain London Rickshaws which was founded in 2003 and has the largest fleet of the ultra-modern bubble Rickshaws in London, Bugsbugs who now have their own design of classic rickshaws and eco charriots who also have their own take on classic rickshaws.

These bikes were initially made with off-the-shelf S & S engines, but used the Powerplus engine design from 2002 to 2003.

In recognition of Art Center's commitment to addressing social and humanitarian issues through design, 2003 saw Art Center become the first design college to ever receive NGO ( non-governmental organization ) status by the United Nations.

The leading edge of Trek ’ s design and engineering efforts, ACG is perhaps best known for a number of products introduced and used by Lance Armstrong during his historic Tour de France wins, including the original Trek Madone ( 2003 )— named for the Col de la Madone, a 12K climb that starts in the French town of Menton and used by Armstrong to test his fitness — and TTX time trial bike ( 2005 ).

* 2003 ASCE OPAL Award for lifetime contributions to design.

In early 2003, Intel showed the design of Tejas and a plan to release it sometime in 2004, but put it off to 2005 later.

In 2003 the circuit was closed down to accommodate a major reprofiling of the track, using a new design from Hermann Tilke.

The current bottle design “ Glacial Ice ” ( 2003 ) is a work of the Finnish designer Harri Koskinen and Kenneth Hirst of Hirst Pacific Ltd, New York.

Housed in an integrated " serpentine " design, New College consists of three halls: Wilson Hall, Wetmore Hall, and a new hall aptly named New Building built in 2003.

He has continued to design for Mambo and hold sellout exhibitions at Watters in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.