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The consumers’ appetite for wireless data transfer is seemingly inexhaustible. This is pushing up the operating frequency of point-to-point links and leading to increased opportunities for microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) mm-wave amplifiers. The link between carrier frequency and data rate is illustrated in Figure 1 . Unfortunately, as...

The Boeing Co. and industry partner Northrop Grumman Corp. submitted their joint proposal for the competitive development and sustainment contract for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic missile defense system. “This development and sustainment contract proposal is backed by the full...

Raytheon Co. has delivered its 250th APG-79 active electronically scanned array radar to Boeing. The APG-79 radar is flown on US Navy F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft, and on the Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Super Hornet. “As we recognize this milestone of the 250 th APG-79 AESA delivery, it...

Hughes Network Systems LLC, a leader in broadband satellite technologies and services, and a provider of managed network services, announced it was awarded a $495,000 contract by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct an architectural study of commercial communications satellite (COCOMSAT) systems capabilities. The report, which will...

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Mercedes-Benz are leading a project to create the transport system of the future, in which cars communicate with each other, receive real-time information about traffic, and also gather and forward information. A test area is currently being built in Tampere, Finland, that...

EADS and the Skolkovo Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on research collaboration that underlines the intention of EADS to participate in the Russia-based Skolkovo Innovation Centre. Dubbed ‘Russia’s Silicon Valley,’ the Centre is a high technology business hub that is being built in the Moscow region....

Thales Alenia Space has created a separately owned German subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space Deutschland GmbH, located in the Stuttgart area. This strategic move demonstrates the company’s intention to play a growing role in Germany, a country committed to strongly supporting European institutional and national R&D space programmes. The opening...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote regional and international standardization, with the aim of contributing to the establishment of a global information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure. The agreement formalizes an...