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Raytheon Co. has received Foreign Military Sales contract awards totaling $1.1 B to fund new production of the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System for Taiwan. The awards include ground-system hardware through an initial contract valued at $965.6 M and an initial spares contract valued at $134.4 M....

The nation’s fleet of B-2 stealth bombers will all receive a new Northrop Grumman Corp.-developed radar system following the US Air Force’s decision to authorize full-rate production of the units by the company’s Radar Modernization Program (RMP). The decision, made by the assistant Secretary of the Air Force for...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has received a $228 M order from the US Marine Corps to provide Falcon II AN/VRC-104 high-frequency radio systems for use in US Department of Defense (DoD) MRAP-All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV). The contract was awarded by the US Marine Corps–Systems...

The SANITAS (“Enabling safer systems by a new collaborative verification methodology across the entire value chain”) project, which aims to strengthen German competiveness by developing processes and verification methods for more flexible and secure automated manufacturing, has been launched by leading German companies. Under the project management of Infineon...

Defence and security company Saab has signed a contract valued at approximately €46 M for the sale of its ARTHUR Weapon Locating System (WLS) to the Italian Army. The order was obtained in collaboration with the Italian partner Selex Sistemi Integrati, who will supply the command and communications solution,...

Motorola Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Israel-based Motorola Integrated Radio System (MIRS) to the Altice Group, a European investor in media and telecommunications. Utilizing Motorola’s iDEN technology, MIRS provides telecommunications solutions to a wide range of customers in Israel including health services, fire and rescue,...

Industry News Crane Co. , a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, and Merrimac Industries Inc. , a leader in the design and manufacture of RF microwave components, assemblies and micro-multifunction modules, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Merrimac by Crane. Crane...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Herley Lancaster division has received a follow-on contract valued at more than $1 M from a major US prime contractor to manufacture multi-function integrated microwave assemblies (IMA) for a US Navy electronic attack aircraft. Richard F. Poirier, CEO and President, commented, "This award...

Forward Concepts has announced the publication of its newest in-depth study of the worldwide Smartphone market and the key chips that enable them. The extensive (470-page) study, "Smartphone Device & Chip Market Opportunities '10," covers the top 24 Smartphone vendors and their 2009 market shares and change from 2008....

AWR® , a leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced that Sherry Hess, Vice President of Marketing, has re-launched her popular guest blog (first appearing on Microwave Journal ’s website) on the AWR website. The new AWR blog is designed to provoke discussion of industry issues and trends...