Industry News
The following list is complete at the time of going to press. GP stands for German Pavilion.
September 1, 2003
7 Layers ......H109 A.T. Wall Companies ......H53 ACAL GmbH ......GP Accent Optical Technologies ......H93 Actipass Co. Ltd. ......H95 Aeroflex ......H139 Agere Systems ......H52 Agilent Technologies ......G48 Alfred Tronser GmbH ......H51 American Technical Ceramics ......H74 Amplifier Research ......H101 Analog Devices ......G18 Anaren Microwave Inc. ......H12 Andrew Corp. ......G52 Anritsu Ltd....
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Quarter-wavelength, in-phase, N-way power dividers/combiners are widely used in antenna arrays, power amplifiers and transmitters, mixers, phase shifters and vector modulators. This article briefly reviews the history of known quarter-wavelength power ...
September 1, 2003
The simplest quarter-wavelength, multi-port power divider, known as a Wilkinson divider, 1-2 provides a match at all ports, low loss, in-phase power splitting and high isolation between output ports. Historically, this device was reported earlier. 3-7 It was also described 5 together with the so-called Gysel-type combiner, 8 based...
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September 1, 2003
ASK HARLAN YOUR RF & MICROWAVE TECH Q&A RESOURCE You may know Harlan Howe from his twelve years as publisher and editor of Microwave Journal ®, or from his 34 years as a Microwave design engineer and engineering manager, or from his service as an IEEE fellow and past...
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September 1, 2003
ASK HARLAN YOUR RF & MICROWAVE TECH Q&A RESOURCE You may know Harlan Howe from his twelve years as publisher and editor of Microwave Journal ®, or from his 34 years as a Microwave design engineer and engineering manager, or from his service as an IEEE fellow and past...
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September 1, 2003
Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $16.8 M production option to a previously awarded US Army Communications - Electronic Command (CECOM) contract for the production of AN/TPN-31 Air Traffic Navigation, Integration and Coordination Systems (ATNAVICS) and AN/FPN-67 Fixed Base Precision Approach Radar (FBPAR) systems. ATNAVICS is a completely self-contained...
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September 1, 2003
CECOM has selected Rockwell Collins as the standard supplier of GPS engines to the US Army, enabling support of soldiers on the three-dimensional digital battle space. Rockwell Collins won the competitive two-year ground-based GPS receiver application module (GB-GRAM) contract that has an estimated value of $30 M when the...
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September 1, 2003
The Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), FL, awarded Lockheed Martin a $12 M contract for the Autonomous Wide Area Search Munition (AWASM) program, focused on integrating a two-way data link capability into a wide area search miniature munition. The contract launches a 30-month effort...
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September 1, 2003
Raytheon Co. has been selected to enter into negotiation toward an estimated $50 M Future Combat Systems (FCS) contract to serve as Ground System Integrator (GSI). The announcement of this selection for negotiations was made by FCS Lead System Integrator (LSI), led by Boeing, on behalf of the US...
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September 1, 2003
Lockheed Martin has been selected as one of two contractors to develop a follow-on weapon system to the Shoulder-Launched Multi-purpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) for the US Marine Corps. The contract is for the system integration phase (SIP) of the follow-on to SMAW (FOTS) program. It calls for Lockheed Martin...
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September 1, 2003
The response time and coordination of the emergency services in Czluchow, Poland, are set to improve, after the Polish government commissioned a pilot project to set up a new control centre equipped with a modern TETRA radio system. With a view to improving internal security and cooperation among rescue...
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