KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 6, 2026--
Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto; “Kyocera”)(TOKYO: 6971) will exhibit at CES 2026, one of the world’s largest technology trade shows, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, from January 6 to 9, 2026.
This year’s highlights from Kyocera include Underwater Wireless Optical Communication (UWOC), enabling fast, stable data transmission underwater; a Triple-Lens AI-Based High-Resolution Depth Sensor for close-range imaging; a Wearable Aerial Display that enables smaller, lighter optical devices; and the OPTINITY ® optoelectronic integrated module that contributes to faster, more energy-efficient, and space-saving data exchange for AI and autonomous driving applications.
The booth will further showcase a High-Resolution mmWave Sensor, a Phased Array Antenna Module demo (Kyocera International Inc.), and the first U.S. unveiling of the Real-Time Interactive Caption Display SystemCotopat (Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.), underlining Kyocera’s broad innovation across key industries.
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For comprehensive information about these featured technologies and other exhibits, please visit our official CES 2026 website:
https://global.kyocera.com/ces/2026/?press
Download the Press Kit here:
https://global.kyocera.com/newsroom/news/img/CES2026_PressKit.zip
OPTINITY is a registered trademark of Kyocera Corporation.
Cotopat is a trademark or registered trademark of Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
About KYOCERA
Kyocera Corporation (TOKYO:6971, https://global.kyocera.com/ ), the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine ceramics (also known as “advanced ceramics”). By combining these engineered materials with metals and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of industrial and automotive components, semiconductor packages, electronic devices, smart energy systems, printers, copiers, and mobile phones. During the year ended March 31, 2025, the company’s consolidated sales revenue totaled 2 trillion yen (approx. US$13.5 billion*). Kyocera is ranked #1,123 on Forbes magazine’s 2025 “Global 2000” list of the world’s largest publicly traded companies, and has been named among “The World’s 100 Most Sustainably Managed Companies” by The Wall Street Journal.
*Conversion is provided based on TTM as of March 31, 2025
Kyocera Group's CES 2026 booth #6501, West Hall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that he will allow service members to carry personal weapons onto military installations, citing the Second Amendment and recent shootings at bases across the country.
In a video posted to X, Hegseth said he is signing a memo that will direct base commanders to allow requests for troops to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”
He said any denial of a service member's request must be explained in detail and in writing.
“Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones,” Hegseth said. “Unless you're training or unless you are a military policeman, you couldn't carry, you couldn't bring your own firearm for your own personal protection onto post.”
Questions about why service members lacked access to weapons have often emerged following shootings on the nation's military bases. Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shootings by an Army psychiatrist at Texas’ Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead.
Hegseth cited some of the events in his video, including a shooting that injured five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia last year. Officials said the shooter, an Army sergeant who worked at the base, used his personal handgun before he was tackled by fellow soldiers and arrested.
“In these instances, minutes are a lifetime,” Hegseth said. “And our service members have the courage and training to make those precious, short minutes count.”
Defense Department policy has prohibited military personnel from carrying personal weapons on base without permission from a senior commander, with strict protocol for how the firearms must be stored.
Typically, military personnel must officially check their guns out of secure storage to go to on-base hunting areas or shooting ranges, then check all firearms back in promptly after their sanctioned use. Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
Tanya Schardt, senior counsel at the Brady gun violence prevention organization, said in a statement that Defense Department leaders and the military’s top brass have opposed relaxing the current policy, which was originally enacted under President George H.W. Bush.
Schardt noted that most active duty service members who die by suicide do so with a weapon they own personally, not one military-issued, and argued that there will “undoubtedly be an increase in gun suicide and other gun violence.”
While fewer American service members died by suicide in 2024, the suicide rates among active duty troops overall still have gradually increased between 2011 and 2024, according to a Pentagon report released Tuesday.
“Our military installations are among the most guarded, protected properties in the world, and they’ve never been ‘gun-free zones,’” Schardt said. “If there is a problem with violent crime on these installations, then the Secretary of Defense has an obligation to alert the American people and describe how he’s working to prevent that crime.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
