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HI-REL Components This website outlines the newest addition to Aeroflex/Metelics' product family. Aeroflex/Metelics now offers JAN-qualified diodes and transistors due to the companyís recent acquisition of HI-REL Components of Lawrence, MA. DSCC qualification has been received to MIL-PRF-19500N/578 and /609. The company's Hard Glass Switching Diodes and Small Signal...

Global naval forces rely on radar to defend and augment ship offensive capability, the most prevalent of which is the Aegis Combat System. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, "Electronic Component Demand Scenarios for the Aegis Combat System," predicts that the annual market for electronics will...

The Lockheed Martin team developing the US Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, known as GPS III, continues to maintain schedule performance and meet or exceed key milestones in the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of the program. To date, the team has successfully executed 26 of...

Raytheon Co. and The Boeing Co. fired the first Joint Air-to-Ground Missile during a test funded by the two companies. The weapon, fired from a ground-based rotary-wing launcher, performed a series of preprogrammed maneuvers and flew to a predesignated location, validating the flight control software and Brimstone airframe. The...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has received a $139 M order to provide additional Falcon II ® AN/VRC-104 high-frequency (HF) tactical radio systems for the US Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Program. The radio systems will be installed in...

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has released a new set of reports— 3G/WCDMA-HSPA Launches Worldwide, HSPA Operator Commitments, Global HSPA+ Network Commitments and Deployments, HSPA Devices Survey and Evolution to LTE —that confirm the march of mobile broadband into the global mainstream. The facts and figures show that...

Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas has been awarded a contract to participate in a consortium on a new initiative named Beyond Next Generation (BuNGee) aimed at achieving a tenfold increase in mobile broadband infrastructure capacity. The €4.7 M initiative, which is planned to continue through June 2012, is funded...

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design, Second Edition John W.M. Rogers and Calvin Plett This newly revised and expanded edition of the 2003 Artech House classic, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design , serves as an up-to-date, practical reference for RFIC design. This edition includes numerous updates, including greater coverage of...

Industry News Pamtech founder, George F. Grund III , passed away on April 23 rd . Grund was the founder of Pamtech (Passive Microwave Technology) in March 1976. The company, located in Camarillo, CA, designs and manufactures high performance ferrite products such as circulators and isolators. Pamtech is privately...