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The next generation of military tactical radios will serve as nodes and hubs in mobile ad hoc networks. These networks will connect ground, naval, airborne and satellite assets into an interactive mesh of battlefield information and decision-making. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, "Electronic Component Demand...

Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully completed a key requirements review for the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIIB satellite series under the US Air Force's next generation GPS III Space Segment program. GPS III will improve position, navigation and timing services and provide advanced anti-jam capabilities yielding superior...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has helped the US Air Force improve the mission availability of its fleet of B-2 stealth bombers by successfully completing the system development and demonstration (SDD) phase of the B-2 Radar Modernization Program (RMP). SDD includes the design, development, test and installation of the new radar...

Seven leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem, Ericsson, Gemalto, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Venyon (a company in the Giesecke & Devrient Group) and ViVOtech, have joined forces to form the MIFARE4Mobile™ Industry Group. MIFARE4Mobile is a technology, which has been developed by NXP and is used...

ETSI's newly-published European Standard for Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) has been declared a European 'Community Specification' as a consequence of being listed in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). It is the first standard from a European Standards Organisation to be listed as a Community Specification...

ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) has been awarded a contract by NATO's Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) Program Office to provide the alliance commanders with real-time interim ballistic missile defence capabilities for deployed forces by the end of 2010. The company will deliver the Air Command and Control System (ACCS)...

A range of specialist plastic electronics businesses in the UK are to benefit from a total of £8.4 M investment in research and development into new technology that will lead to the creation of a range of new products. Thirteen projects, involving more than 30 industrial and academic partners,...

EMITE Ing (Murcia, Spain) presented at both CTIA RCSG and 3GPP RAN#4 standardization committees the Sample Selection technique for the MIMO Analyzer. The novel technique allows standardized MIMO channel fading measurements using mode-stirred chambers for the first time. Successful emulation of standardized IEEE 802.11n models and measured throughputs were...

According to a recently released industry and market report from Engalco—MMICs2—which analyzes the compound semiconductor MMICs market to 2015, GaAs MMICs will remain important, while GaN and SiGe MMICs will progressively invade these markets. Although the overall worldwide total markets are forecasted to reach $6.26 B in 2015, this...

BridgeWave Communications, a supplier of gigabit wireless solutions for 4G network backhaul, and Provigent, a provider of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission market, announced a strategic partnership enabling BridgeWave to extend its market leading millimeter-wave solutions to the edge of 4G networks. Provigent will collaborate with...