Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., (STI) was an American engineering company engaged in technology development for satellite communications and navigation, in
Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring Sa ...
. They were founded by
James J. Spilker Jr. (1933–2019), P. Marshall Fitzgerald (1933–2013), and John W. Brownie in 1973, reincorporated in Delaware and went public in 1988, and were sold to several buyers (
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...
, Newbridge/Alcatel, Dii/Flextronics, and
ITT Industries
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American worldwide manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company produces specialty components for the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets. ITT's three businesse ...
) in 1999.
STI's founders were largely responsible for the design of the signals used in the
GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geol ...
navigation system.
Founded and grown without any venture capital money, STI grew to 1300 employees before being sold.
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Telecommunications companies of the United States
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