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Along with most, I was rather sad to hear that Steve Jobs passed away the other day. He was truly a brilliant and driven individual following his own path. Coincidently, the news reached me on the same day that I finished writing about the innovative spirit at Apple as...

Cree Inc. , a market leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, continues its mission of advancing the adoption of SiC into mainstream power applications. Cree's advances in SiC technology are setting new standards in energy efficiency while reducing system costs and improving reliability when compared to silicon-based power...

ASC Signal Corp. has been awarded a $3.8 M sub-contract by L-3 Communications Systems-West to build a dual-band antenna system to support global data collection and dissemination worldwide for the US Navy MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program. The advanced antenna terminals will be...

"Bond, James Bond." Ever since Ian Fleming's famous agent 007 uttered those words in 1962's "Dr. No," moviegoers have admired this uber-cool member of Her Majesty's Secret Service for his steely approach to villains, beautiful women and high tech gadgets, all while enjoying a martini – shaken not stirred,...

Holzworth Instrumentation has developed a fully automated phase noise analyzer with an integrated, cross correlation engine that responds to the most common issues of modern phase noise test systems. The HA7062A provides ease of use, fast measurement speeds, high reliability, high stability and pricing that makes an easy decision...

10 years ago…RF discrete transistors integrated into pallets Integration: Traditional designs in the military defense sector often utilized bipolar technology in a pallet form for radar and avionics applications. A pallet or module is a 50 Ω matched design. Most pallets that were requested were single transistor pallets with...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Munitions Directorate and Lockheed Martin have signed a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to assess the viability of its cooled tri-mode seeker for integration onto Air Force weapon platforms. "We will work closely with Lockheed Martin to leverage their mature...

A series of laboratory tests on the Raytheon Co. Small Diameter Bomb (SDB)II tri-mode seeker demonstrated that it exceeds anticipated performance parameters. SDB II's seeker fuses millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging infrared (IIR) and semiactive laser sensors on a single gimbal. The result is a powerful, integrated seeker that seamlessly...

Harris Corp. has introduced the RF-7800S-LR Leader Radio, the world's first soldier "smart radio" – with embedded GPS, encryption and a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). The RF-7800S-LR provides unit leaders with combat-proven tactical communication and computing capabilities in a single, lightweight device for enhanced mission flexibility. The Harris RF-7800S-LR...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $32.2 M US Navy contract for the Global Positioning System-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service program for Navy surface and subsurface platforms. GPNTS, designed to replace the current Navigation Sensor System Interface, supports mission-critical real-time positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) data services, including...