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Herley Industries Inc. announced that through a subsidiary, it has been awarded a $16.6 M firm-fixed-price, time and material, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for Radio Frequency (RF) Modules. As required, repair services and engineering and technical support services will also be performed. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China...

EgyptAir has selected Rockwell Collins avionics for five A330 aircraft with an option for three additional aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled from August 2010 through 2012. The agreement includes Rockwell Collins MultiscanTM Hazard Detection System, TTR-2100 Traffic Avoidance System, as well as a full communications, navigation and surveillance suite including...

In order to foster the competitiveness of the European semiconductor industry, 35 European partners have formed the – Implementing manufacturing science solutions to increase equipment productivity and fab performance (IMPROVE) – joint research project. The project runs from 2009 to the end of 2011 and targets the increased productivity...

Engineers at Scotland’s Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) have begun work on the development stage of a £3.3 M project to design a wireless sensor system set to become a standard feature of the next generation of commercial aircraft. The project, which will enable the real-time monitoring of...

EADS has signed a long- term partnership agreement with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPb SPU), which expresses the common interests and basic principles of cooperation in Research and Technology (R&T). The agreement is also open for other scientific institutions. The parties...

New centres that offer UK-based businesses flexible and affordable access to cutting-edge scientific equipment and laboratory space for high-tech research and development work have opened at STFC Daresbury Laboratory, part of the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus in Cheshire, UK. More than £3 M of cutting-edge equipment is available...

The economic downturn is likely to cause a slowdown in North American and European in-building wireless (IBW) deployments during 2009-10. ABI Research sees flat growth in those regions for ‘09-10; however, typical 20 to 25 percent annual growth is expected to return by 2013. Buoyed by constant high growth...

The recession contributed to 2008 having the slowest total global broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) market growth this decade of 2.4 percent (to 154M units), according to market research firm, In-Stat. 2009 will be even slower. However, cable gateways, wireless and VoIP routers, and wireless and VoIP DSL CPE...

Wi-Fi seems to be all-pervasive, and in the year 2011 alone, Wi-Fi chipset vendors will ship one billion units, according to market data just released by ABI Research. By the end of the following year a cumulative five billion such chipsets will have shipped since the firm began tracking...

The global economic meltdown slowed year-on-year GaAs industry growth from its previous forecast of 9 percent down to 6 percent in 2008. With the market projected to contract again 5 percent year-on-year in 2009, gains made in 2008 will be effectively wiped out and the GaAs industry is projected...