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"Recession 101" andYour Career There is no doubt that the economy has affected the industry. Jobs have been lost, careers changed and the financial status of many has been severely affected. The one good thing I have learned from the “Recession 101 Class” is that recessions test us, but...

Microwave Journal mourns the passing last month of William “Leo” Bazzy, co-founder of Horizon House Inc. and Microwave Journal , at the age of 89. Mr. Bazzy was this magazine’s first publisher, and served as president and chairman of Horizon House for more than 50 years. He also founded...

RFMD has developed a portfolio of Gallium Nitride (GaN) on Silicon Carbide (SiC) high power amplifiers and just recently released the first product from a family of discrete unmatched power transistors. The RF3931 is a 48 V, 30 W high power discrete transistor that operates in the DC to...

Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Sperry Marine business unit has been awarded a contract to supply navigation radar systems for eight new US Navy nuclear attack submarines. The firm, fixed-price contract, valued at $20.9 M, was awarded to Sperry Marine by Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC. The contract calls for...

The US Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $1 B contract for continued development and evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System. Under the contract, Lockheed Martin’s Surface-Sea Based Missile Defense line of business, in Moorestown, NJ, will design, develop, integrate,...

Raytheon Co. moves closer to its first international sale of RACR (Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar) following approval for the company to move forward with technical discussions with at least two potential customers. Both countries are looking to upgrade their F-16 fleets within the next two years in order to...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, successfully completed the first milestone in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program that will process 40 times more data than is possible today, and deliver weather images to more than 10,000 direct users. The Systems Requirements Review of...

Over the next three years scientists from QinetiQ and the University of Exeter, UK, will build on a portfolio of patented technology to develop new anti-counterfeit and RF technologies. The work will be based on groundbreaking physical sciences research in the field of tailored electromagnetic materials—made by studying the...

The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, has been inaugurated. The site, which was made available by France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), will play an essential role in the setting up...

EADS Innovation Works, the European aerospace and defence group’s research and development network, is opening a branch in Bangalore, India. Located within the Airbus Engineering Centre India’s premises, EADS Innovation Works India will manage and broker R&T projects for the EADS Business Units and the Corporate R&T Organisation. Some...