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In this month’s issue we provide an overview of the defense-focused analysis presented recently at Strategy Analytics analyst forum at MTTS/IMS 2011 as well as summarizing some of the major events in the month May. On the news side for May, events were dominated by the Indian $10.5 B...

The Day to Remember: 05.01.11 On May 1st, 2011, personnel of US SOCOM's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Commanded by Vice Admiral William H. Mc Raven, raided a large private compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, just north of the capital city of Islamabad. There, Special Special Mission Unit (SMU) personnel...

Under a contract awarded through public tender and worth around $5 M, Indra will provide rapid deployment satellite communications systems to Brazil's armed forces. This new project reaffirms Indra’s position as the main satellite terminal supplier for the Brazilian Ministry of Defense. Indra has been present in Brazil since...

United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) has announced the availability of the majority of their design kits for various process technologies for use with Agilent Technologies recently released Advanced Design System (ADS) 2011.01 EDA software. The UMS process design kits support a complete ADS front-to-back end MMIC design flow with scalable...

Nujira and KCB Signal Solutions have formed a formal partnership to support their growing US military customer base. The two companies intend to establish a joint entity whereby KCB Signal Solutions will develop and support a range of products to address the military communications market's need to upgrade to...

Avago Technologies has expanded its high performance portfolio of RF and microwave components for cellular infrastructure applications with two new series of LNAs. Featuring excellent noise performance and high linearity, the new MGA-63xP8 LNAs and ALM-11x36 fail-safe bypass LNA modules deliver improved receiver sensitivity for base transceiver stations (BTS)...

ISCO International, LLC, a leading provider of flexible spectrum conditioning solutions for wireless service providers, today announced Proteus, a new product that “clears the air” of radio interference that infringes upon users trying to connect to a base station for voice or data service. PurePass, the new all digital...

Harris Corp. and Cubic Corp. have conducted technology demonstrations that significantly enhance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) situational awareness by distributing Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) video and targeting data across wideband ground tactical communication networks. The Harris/Cubic solution integrates Cubic's Common Data Link (CDL) transceiver technology for receiving video...

Cellular reception issues are becoming more acute as mobile access devices are designed to handle more data-rich applications. Adding new macro base stations has been the traditional way of creating new mobile capacity. However, cell tower locations are becoming harder to acquire, and the cost of new base stations...

ISCO International, LLC, a leading provider of flexible spectrum conditioning solutions for wireless service providers, today announced that Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has successfully implemented ISCO’s Proteus™ spectrum conditioning equipment in order to increase capacity, improve performance and provide a superior customer experience from Shentel’s PCS network. The implementation...