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Raytheon Co. has completed the shipboard installation of the Cobra Judy Replacement program's X- and S-Band antennas onto the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25). These massive active phased-array antennas, each weighing more than 500,000 pounds, were installed onto the ship at Kiewit Offshore Services (KOS), Corpus Christi, TX....

A research team from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, has developed two new techniques of cancer diagnosis and treatment with the aid of microwaves. One method is an alternative to mammography that uses X-rays to detect breast cancer. The other method aims to treat tumours in the head...

A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València's El Instituto de Telecomunicaciones y Aplicaciones Multimedia (iTEAM) in Spain claims to have created the first tunable broadband RF photonic phase shifter. The study was funded in part by the "Governing the speed of light" (GOSPEL) project, which was...

A series of European Research Council (ERC) "top up" grants worth up to €150,000 each have been awarded to 30 leading researchers across Europe. Part of the ERC's new "Proof of Concept" funding initiative, these grants are being awarded to researchers who already hold ERC grants, in order to...

European aerospace and defence group EADS and Russian Nanotechnology Corp. RUSNANO have signed a cooperative research and development agreement in the field of nanotechnology. As a first step, the partners will identify relevant patents in EADS's portfolio, which could be suited to develop new business in the Russian industry....

Container security and tracking revenues will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27 percent from $212 M in 2011 to $690 M in 2016, according to ABI Research. "With a lot of regulations and legislation being introduced in the aftermath of 9/11, expectations that this industry...

In 2010, global spending on wireless sensor networking (WSN) chipsets in industrial automation reached $2 M, with the overall market expected to grow to $8 M by 2016, according to ABI Research. Industrial automation consists of two market segments, process automation and factory automation, in which WSN in field...

By the end of 2013, LTE connections will be close to 80 million, according to ABI Research. This figure will account for connections on both FD-LTE, including that paired with W-CDMA/HSPA and CDMA 1x/EV-DO, and TD-LTE technologies globally. "We are expecting to see more LTE networks lighting up in...

Out of a total of 552 million NFC handsets shipped in 2016, 227 million will feature multiple secure elements. The increased inclusion of multiple secure elements will drive the mobile NFC market valuation above the $1 B mark. Although MNOs favor SWP SIM implementation, the market will develop with...

Industry News Microsemi Corp ., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, and Zarlink Semiconductor Inc . announced that 0916753 B.C. ULC, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Microsemi, has accepted the tender of and is acquiring 123,438,737 Zarlink shares, representing approximately 96...