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Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new LTE baseband exploration library for the SystemVue 2009 design platform. The library (version W1912) provides full source-code access to PHY golden reference algorithms that are consistent with the 3GPP LTE March 2009 standard. Agilent’s new LTE library provides key advances for 3GPP LTE...

Join the discussion on LinkedIn about this subject: RF and Microwave Community Discussion on the BIP On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law, allocating $7.2 B in grant and loan funding to expand broadband/wireless access to rural unserved and underserved...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, announced it has received certification from the National Security Agency (NSA) for the Harris RF-310M-HH, the world’s first tactical radio to utilize new encryption technology designed to simplify the enabling of communications interoperability within multinational coalitions. Harris and NSA collaborated...

The US Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command has awarded SRCTec a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with an approximate value of $700 M for Counter Remote Control Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (CREW) Duke V2 system upgrades. The CREW Duke counters radio-controlled roadside bombs, or IEDs, and...

Raytheon Co. was awarded a $151 M contract by the US Navy’s NATO Sea-Sparrow program office to produce 186 Evolved Sea-Sparrow Missiles, with an option for $210.3 M to produce an additional 255 missiles. The agreement will also provide NSPO consortium member navies with spare parts and missile containers....

Herley Industries Inc. announced that through a subsidiary, it has been awarded a $16.6 M firm-fixed-price, time and material, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for Radio Frequency (RF) Modules. As required, repair services and engineering and technical support services will also be performed. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China...

EgyptAir has selected Rockwell Collins avionics for five A330 aircraft with an option for three additional aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled from August 2010 through 2012. The agreement includes Rockwell Collins MultiscanTM Hazard Detection System, TTR-2100 Traffic Avoidance System, as well as a full communications, navigation and surveillance suite including...

In order to foster the competitiveness of the European semiconductor industry, 35 European partners have formed the – Implementing manufacturing science solutions to increase equipment productivity and fab performance (IMPROVE) – joint research project. The project runs from 2009 to the end of 2011 and targets the increased productivity...

Engineers at Scotland’s Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) have begun work on the development stage of a £3.3 M project to design a wireless sensor system set to become a standard feature of the next generation of commercial aircraft. The project, which will enable the real-time monitoring of...

EADS has signed a long- term partnership agreement with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPb SPU), which expresses the common interests and basic principles of cooperation in Research and Technology (R&T). The agreement is also open for other scientific institutions. The parties...