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The IEEE 802.15.4 IC market will grow to over $1.1 B in 2016 -- up from just $90 M in 2010. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is still a key adoption market and there is significant impetus behind the continuation of this market. Some concerns have been raised around mass...

Ducommun Inc. announced that it has received contracts totaling approximately $14 Mfrom Bell Helicopter, a unit of Textron Inc.. The Ducommun LaBarge Technologies business unit (DLT), a provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS), will produce electronic assemblies and wiring harnesses for the V-22 Osprey military aircraft. DLT has supported...

API Technologies Corp. , a provider of electronic systems, subsystems, RF, and secure solutions for the defense, aerospace, and commercial industries, announced that it has received a new $1.4 M order for precision position sensors to be used in air-to-surface missiles. API’s RF Solutions division was awarded the order...

AR Modular RF has received additional JITC Certification on its AR-50 booster amplifier for the PRC-117G radio. This means that the market leading 50 W, automatic tuning, multi-band tactical booster amplifier (30 to 512 MHz) has JITC certification for use with both the PSC-5D and the PRC-117G transceivers. The...

KRYTAR Inc. announces the availability of custom designs and production of complete ultra-broadband beamforming networks for RF and microwave applications. KRYTAR offers the widest frequency coverage in single-packaged beamforming network designs and provides superior performance in a wide range of RF and microwave applications. With its long history of...

The commercial sector will continue to drive innovation and we will see continued use of commercially-based technologies such as smartphones and tablets as well as networks being adapted for use in the military sector. One example was Lockheed Martin’s MONAX provides users with a 4G private network they can...

e2v has announced that STACK International, the consortium of defence and aerospace peers committed to sharing experience, market intelligence, emerging initiatives and best practice, has certified the company’s hi-rel semiconductor products and services to STACK Specification S/0001. STACK certification was achieved following an extensive independent audit conducted by member...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Lime Microsystems have announced a custom pairing of test equipment, transceiver technology and control software that constitutes a new method for testing and evaluating advanced wireless systems. The evaluation platform, which includes a suite of test equipment and software, saves today’s digital and software-defined radio...

A powerful new version of the Opera electromagnetics simulator for design engineers has been released by the Vector Fields Software business unit of Cobham Technical Services . The latest software adds three-dimensional mechanical stress analysis, extending the tool's multiphysics capability to provide a single-step solution to complex design problems....

Giga-tronics announced that Robert Waldeck has joined Giga-tronics as Vice President of Business Development for Switching Solutions, effective December 1, 2011. Waldeck has held positions as a Sales Representative and in Sales Management in the T&M instrument industry during the past 15 years and, prior to that, worked in...