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The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Co. a $51.6 M contract to provide logistics support for the communication terminals of the Navy's Extremely High Frequency Satellite Program (NESP). The performance-based logistics contract calls for Raytheon Technical Services Co. LLC (RTSC) to fulfill all requisitions; warehouse and track government-furnished material;...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has signed an agreement with key Asian standards developers that will mean new technologies come to market quicker and at lower cost. ARIB (Japan), CCSA (China), TTA (Korea) and TTC (Japan) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the ITU recognizing it as the...

The European Best-Reliable Ambient Intelligent Nano Sensor Systems (e-BRAINS) research project will conduct research into the integration of heterogeneous systems using 3D and nanotechnology. Led by Infineon and Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies (Fraunhofer EMFT), the project will run until the end of 2013. Nano-sensors will...

MBDA and ISL (the Franco-German Research Institute of St. Louis) have signed an international partnering agreement thereby extending the scope of the already existing cooperation between the two organizations. The aim of this agreement is to set up a common research framework between ISL, MBDA France and MBDA Germany....

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Defence Agency (EDA) have signed an Administrative Arrangement that aims to provide a structured relationship and a mutually beneficial cooperation between the two agencies through the coordination of their respective activities. The cooperation will, in particular, aim to explore the added...

RFID software continues to grow in uptake and, according to the latest forecasts from ABI Research, software revenues are set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 20 percent through 2016. RFID tags and readers may capture real-time data, but it takes software packages...

Shipments of home automation systems will total about 1.8 million worldwide this year. But, according to ABI Research, that number is set to rise sharply soon, exceeding 12 million in 2016. These figures are contained in a new home automation study from the firm, which confirms its previous forecasts....

As data consumption, driven by smartphones, video files and faster Internet service, continues to skyrocket, service providers respond by increasing the amount and capacity of high data rate fiber in their transmission networks. The Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service (GaAs) viewpoint, "Compound Semiconductor Industry Review March...

INDUSTRY NEWS Skyworks Solutions Inc . closed its acquisition of SiGe Semiconductor Inc ., a global supplier of radio frequency front-end solutions. The companies entered into a definitive agreement on May 17, 2011. Skyworks paid cash for the acquisition, which was approved by Skyworks' board and SiGe's board of...

GaN HEMTs have been considered to be the best option for realizing high performance in high power amplifiers (HPA), and now amplifiers based on GaN technology have started to become widely deployed in various applications. This article describes some development activities and performance results of GaN HPAs. The development...