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Improvised explosive devices (IED) have been brutally effective weapons for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, and increasingly, in other parts of the world. IEDs have been blamed for thousands of deaths of military personnel and also civilians. The US and its allies have responded to the IED threat by...

TriQuint Semiconductor , a leading RF products manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced that it has been awarded a Defense Production Act Title III gallium nitride (GaN) manufacturing development contract by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The overall goal of the contract is to increase yield, lower...

Applied Radar Inc. recently delivered a 64-Channel Analog RF Receiver Unit (ARRU-64™) to the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. The system development was funded through an AFRL Phase-3 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract managed by AFRL at Hanscom AFB, MA, and the hardware...

Integral Systems Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic , has been awarded more than $21 M in multiple government, military and commercial contracts over the past three months, $11.4 M of which was closed in the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2010. Under the terms of the...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced that RFMD® has production released the RF3932, a 75 W, highly efficient gallium nitride (GaN) RF unmatched power transistor (UPT) that delivers superior performance versus competing GaAs and silicon power technologies. The release of the RF3932 follows the recent release of the 140...

Rapid Chinese TD-SCDMA rollouts and the often-maligned GSM/GPRS/EDGE equipment markets have benefited the base station RF power amplifier and RF power device markets. GSM/GPRS/EDGE RFPAs and devices are still shipping in the millions. The Asia-Pacific region is presently accounting for more than 50 percent of the RF power semiconductor...

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced three separate clock buffer families that offer improved clock signal quality with the industry's lowest additive jitter: the CDCLVC11xx, CDCLVD12xx/21xx and CDCLVP12xx/21xx families. These buffers are targeted at a variety of communication applications with frequency support of up to 2 GHz (LVPECL), 800 MHz...

CPI International Inc. (CPII) announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement under which CPI International (CPI) will be acquired by an affiliate of Veritas Capital Fund IV (Veritas Capital) for $19.50 per share in cash. The purchase price reflects a premium of approximately 35 percent over the closing...

Micro-particles, Differential Evolution (DE) and developments in Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology were the highlights of the APC Novacom sponsored November ARMMS conference, which was held in Corby, UK, on 22 and 23 November. Of the 14 papers that were presented, the one titled, Improved infrared temperature measurement of RF...

Nujira has released its first PA platform for military communications, halving the power dissipation for a transmitter covering an entire frequency octave. The Nujira military PA platform uses an RFMD RF3934 PA device together with a Coolteq.h envelope tracking (ET) modulator module. The performance of this platform was compared...