championship. 1995: The Mir space station carries Kenwood's amateur wireless equipment.TK-250 launched — Kenwood's first purpose designed PMR range for Europe. 1996: Changes the subsidiary name from Trio-Kenwood to Kenwood, coinciding with the company's 50th anniversary. 1997: Becomes Japan's first manufacturer to launch car-mounted DAB receivers. 1999: Jointly develops the world's first mobile digital broadcast receiving system.Introduces Pro-Talk PMR446 license free two-way radio. 2001: Releases its first digital transceiver operating on P25. 2002: Develops a network interface module (NIM) for digital broadcasts via a communications satellite (CS). 2005: Forms a technical and capital alliance with Icom to jointly research the standardisation of technical specifications for digital wireless radio equipment(NXDN).Kenwood Nagano Corp. acquires certification to “ISO/TS 16949”, the international standard for quality management specific to the automotive industry. 2007: Kenwood announces 144/430 (440) MHz FM Dual bander TM-V71 series.Announcement of completion of acquisition of the U.S. systems-based communication company Zetron, Inc.Invested ¥20.0 billion and formed a strategic business alliance with Victor Company of Japan, Limited. 2008: Notice of establishment of JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc. 2010: Introduces its first ATEX certified analogue two-way radio. 2011: Introduces NEXEDGE OTAP (Over The Air Programming)At the same time, JVC KENWOOD Holdings, Inc. changed its name to JVCKENWOOD Corporation. JVCKENWOOD Corporation completed an absorption of its three subsidiaries, Victor Company of Japan, Limited, Kenwood Corporation, and J&K Car Electronics Corporation. 2013: Kenwood announces launch of the TS-990S amateur radio base station.Global launch of NEXEDGE ETSI certified dPMR digital two-way radios. 2014: Acquires E.F. Johnson Technologies Inc. 2015: Launch of NX-5000 Series multi-protocol (NXDN/DMR/P25) capable hand-portable and mobile radios. 2016: Launches TH-D74E VHF/UHF dual-band handheld amateur radio with built-in GPS 2016: Launches ProTalk WD-K10 Series DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) Intercom systems. 2017: Launch of mid-tier NX-3000 Series multi-protocol (NXDN/DMR) capable hand-portable and mobile radios. 2017: Acquisition of DMR Tier 3 and Simulcast company. 2018: Launch of high-specification, dual PTT ProTalk TK-3601D hand-portable dPMR 446 radio. 2018: JVCKENWOOD acquires a minority share and announces a capital and business alliance with Tait International Ltd., a specialist in critical LMR and LTE communications. 2018: Dorna Sports announce a three-year contract with JVCKENWOOD as the as radio communications sponsor of MotoGP™. 2019: Implementation of the world's first, scalable Single site, 64-Channel, NXDN trunked communications system at the new Istanbul Airport, planned to become the world's largest on completion of its development phases in 2025. 2019: Launch of heavy-duty, dual PTT