The company refused to comment on its contract with the US military, but confirmed it had been supplying the 'rugged communications systems and micro processors' for Predators for several years.
The state's rugged terrain makes transport and communications extremely difficult.
The region's economic development is still hindered by rugged terrain, frequent earthquakes, and poor communications, and there is very little industry of any importance.
Dshang's high elevation of 4,525 feet (1,379 metres) makes the town a health and tourist resort, despite communications difficulties caused by rugged terrain and high levels of precipitation.
The irregularities and insecurity, and the remoteness of some polling stations in a poor nation with rugged terrain and bad roads and communications were all contributing to the slowness of tallying the vote.
The Naval Equipment division provides warship diesel engine, shipboard weapons and launchers, communications and navigation equipment, and rugged computers.
Because of its rugged and broken terrain, Yunnan long suffered from poor communications.
The death toll could climb because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area where the quake was centred.
Although communications are difficult because of heavy precipitation and rugged relief, the town serves as a trade and export centre for local agricultural products such as hides, coffee, and tobacco.
GE has linked up with Globalstar and Orbcomm, two formerly bankrupt satellite communications firms now on the mend, to build a rugged plastic box about the size of two cigarette packs that mounts with four screws between the ribs of a shipping container.
The rugged topography of the Sierra Madre Occidental has been a serious barrier to east-west communications.
