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Raytheon Co. announced that it has signed a definitive acquisition agreement with Applied Signal Technology Inc. , a leader in the collection and processing of communications signals to support tactical and strategic intelligence missions. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies. Under the...

The market value for GaAs revenues, driven by smartphones and consumer adoption of data-intensive applications, has grown strongly from the lows it struggled for in early 2009. The recently published Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductors (GaAs) report, “GaAs Device Vendor Market Share 2009: North America,” reports that this...

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified Cassidian’s newly developed LTR 400 family of transponders, to the latest standards. The very low weight equipment, which is suitable for the identification of military aircraft as well as for use in civil air traffic control, is thus amongst the first...

Wavesat and Picochip have successfully completed interoperability testing (IOT) between Picochip’s PC960x LTE small cell base station solution and Wavesat’s Odyssey 9000 family of UE chipsets. Completing this series of LTE service and IOT milestones represents success in the two companies’ jointly stated aim of delivering full performance with...

Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced that it is to expand its existing 2.4 GHz RF and ANT™ product line-ups in Q1 2011 with a new set of ultra miniaturized, wafer-level chip scale package (WLCSP) options. Sampling in Q1 2011 and available for volume...

Ceragon Networks Ltd. , a provider of high-capacity, 4G/LTE-ready wireless backhaul networks, has opened a new Systems Integration and Test Facility in Paramus, NJ. At the SIT facility, the company’s highly trained network engineers are able to help service providers avoid systems integration issues before complex networks are deployed...

Avago Technologies has announced two new gain block solutions that expand its high-performance power amplifier family targeting cellular infrastructure applications. The new MGA-31589 and MGA-31689 0.5 W gain blocks feature high linearity, high gain, superior gain flatness and low power dissipation. The MGA-31589 gain block addresses cellular and WiMAX...

TriQuint Semiconductor , a leading RF product manufacturer and foundry services provider, has been recognized by Raytheon Co. for exceptional performance in supporting its Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business. TriQuint was honored by Raytheon for the third consecutive year at the company’s 2010 SAS Supplier Excellence Award (SEA)...

A.T. Wall Co. , a supplier of superior precision tubing and fabricated metal components, announced that it provides flexible waveguide and waveguide components to the international market. Products include seamless flexible waveguide, flexible twistable waveguide, flexible waveguide and semi flexible waveguide. In addition to tubing, the company now also...

Three US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's communications-electronics center technologies proven useful in the field by US Soldiers will be recognized as part of the Top Ten 2009 Army's Greatest Inventions during an awards ceremony at the Army Science Conference November 28 in Orlando, FL. "There are several...