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With prizes worth $25,000 on offer, registration has opened for NXP Semiconductors’ first-ever High Performance RF Design Challenge , which invites RF engineers and students worldwide to submit creative application ideas for RF power devices. RF power transistors have traditionally been used in telecommunications, aerospace and broadcast infrastructure, as...

Surrey NanoSystems has announced the first sales of its innovative new nanomaterial growth system, the NanoGrowth-Catalyst, to the École Polytechnique of Montreal, and the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), UK. These research organizations have chosen the NanoGrowth-Catalyst as a platform for their work on materials including carbon...

A seven-year, £47 M contract has been awarded to BAE Systems by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide support for the Combat Management System (CMS) on the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus. The JSS is being delivered by BAE Systems employees in...

The Sumitomo/Thales Joint Venture has signed a contract worth nine billion yen (approximately €80 M) with the Philippines’ Department of Transportation & Communications (DoTC) for the nationwide modernization of the Philippines Communications, Navigation Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) facilities and systems. Thales will deploy its latest generation Eurocat...

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has selected Agilent Technologies Inc. as the supplier of RF test equipment for its Virtus IC design center of excellence. The move is designed to build a long-term relationship focusing on the growing education market in Asia. Virtus aims to be a world-class design...

Rosenberger of North America LLC has completed the relocation of its factory and offices to a newly remodeled fifty two thousand square foot (52,000 sq. ft.) facility in Akron, PA. “The new factory and office complex is 12 miles north of the company’s current location and offers room for...

Fundamentally, cognitive radar refers to the next generation of adaptive radar that has unprecedented transmit-receive adaptivity and diversity, along with “intelligent” high performance embedded computing; in other words, the radar adapts “intelligently” to its environment based on a plurality of potential information sources. 1,2 Consider the definition of cognition...

Crane Aerospace & Electronics , Crane Electronics Inc., Power Solutions, was awarded by the US Department of Defense (DoD), a $14.2 M contract for production of the Keltec Band 9/10 Transmitter high-voltage power modules for the AN/ALQ-99 tactical jamming system. Under the contract, Power Solutions will work closely with...

In a recent meeting with an executive responsible for her company’s product development activities, she made the comment, “I’ve never seen so little creativity in a three-year plan that’s supposed to define our company’s technology roadmap. You’d think an innovation plan would be innovative. What I’m looking at is...

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make any noise? How about if a company makes a product and they fail to market it through a lack of communication with editors and/or an effective advertising campaign with the appropriate media. Unfortunately, it...