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Accel-RF announces a significant addition to its family of proven RF Reliability Test System Products. The new High Power RF (HiPR-AARTS) Automated Accelerated Reliability Test System will help manufacturers prove reliability for application specific devices. Manufacturers are using Accel-RF’s equipment to prove intrinsic reliability and performance degradation characteristics of...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the availability of an add-on process design kit (PDK) with enhanced, foundry-certified features for United Monolithic Semiconductors 's (UMS) popular PHEMT processes (PH25, PH15, PPH25 and PPH15). Providing the most complete MMIC design flow available using Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) platform, the new MMIC...

Computer Simulation Technology (CST) announces the introduction of an efficient algorithm in CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS) that enables sensitivity analysis for several parameters in a single simulation run. Optimization is a typical component of any design engineer’s workflow. With the introduction of new global (genetic, particle swarm) and...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new LTE baseband exploration library for the SystemVue 2009 design platform. The library (version W1912) provides full source-code access to PHY golden reference algorithms that are consistent with the 3GPP LTE March 2009 standard. Agilent’s new LTE library provides key advances for 3GPP LTE...

Join the discussion on LinkedIn about this subject: RF and Microwave Community Discussion on the BIP On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law, allocating $7.2 B in grant and loan funding to expand broadband/wireless access to rural unserved and underserved...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, announced it has received certification from the National Security Agency (NSA) for the Harris RF-310M-HH, the world’s first tactical radio to utilize new encryption technology designed to simplify the enabling of communications interoperability within multinational coalitions. Harris and NSA collaborated...

The US Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command has awarded SRCTec a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with an approximate value of $700 M for Counter Remote Control Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (CREW) Duke V2 system upgrades. The CREW Duke counters radio-controlled roadside bombs, or IEDs, and...

Raytheon Co. was awarded a $151 M contract by the US Navy’s NATO Sea-Sparrow program office to produce 186 Evolved Sea-Sparrow Missiles, with an option for $210.3 M to produce an additional 255 missiles. The agreement will also provide NSPO consortium member navies with spare parts and missile containers....

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...