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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 are never final; recessions...

Raytheon Co. announced it has received Foreign Military Sales contract awards totaling $1.1 B to fund new production of the 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...

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 (MMFM®), announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Merrimac by Crane. Crane will...

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...

A research project to strengthen German competiveness by developing processes and verification methods for more flexible and secure automated manufacturing has been launched by leading German companies. The SANITAS (“Enabling safer systems by a new collaborative verification methodology across the entire value chain”) project includes nine partners – research...

In preparation for the start of extra-high-speed LTE mobile services, NTT DOCOMO Inc. is deploying new W-CDMA base stations equipped with newly developed remote radio equipment (RRE) units to provide both existing W-CDMA and forthcoming LTE service. The RRE-equipped base stations will account for about half of the initial...

STMicroelectronics has made changes in its global sales and marketing organization, which will be effective from January 1, 2010. The aim is to enable the company to better serve its customers and improve the overall effectiveness of its sales and marketing structure, There will also be consolidation of ST’s...

Magneti Marelli and Telit Communications S.p.A. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the area of GSM and GPRS modules to be used on telematics devices in the automotive field. The agreement aims at developing info-mobility and tracking functions and services, and specifically provides for Telit to supply...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has successfully completed operational improvements to lower cost and achieve greater wafer fabrication efficiencies for its proprietary analog, mixed-signal and MEMS manufacturing process technologies. The improvements to plants in Wilmington, MA, which were completed November 1, and Limerick, Ireland, finalized earlier in the year, were...

Pulse , a Technitrol company, a leader in electronic component and subassembly design and manufacturing, announces a new family of cable television (CATV) RF transformers and RF diplex filters that meet Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 3.0 design requirements for applications such as set-top boxes, cable modems...