Articles by MWJ Staff

The last phase of a WiMAX project at Promonte, the prime GSM mobile service provider in Montenegro, has been completed by Comarch. The project introduces global activity taken within Telenor Group’s ‘Internet to the people’, taking advantage of the combination of the latest technologies like 3GHSPA, WiMAX and WiFi....

Spurred by the continued interest in broadband technologies to deliver rich media experiences in the home and beyond, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) will carry groundbreaking Long Term Evolution (LTE) work and expanding WiMAX and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployments into a projected expansion of broadband in 2009. The leading provider of...

Antennas Chen, Wen-Shan and Kai-Cheng Yang “Design of a CPW-fed Printed Antenna for Ultra Wideband Applications,” No. 2, p. 120. Link Chen, Wen-Shan and Kuang-Yuan Ku “A Microstrip-fed Monopole Antenna for WLAN USB Applications,” No. 3, p. 104. Link Chen, Wen-Shan and Kai-Cheng Yang “A Compact CPW-fed Rectangle-trapezoid-rectangle Shaped...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded two separate contracts from the US Air Force Warner Robins Air Logistics Center to provide navigation and weather radars and logistical support for the US Air Force, Air Force Reserves and Air National Guard. The Northrop Grumman AN/APN-241 provides high resolution ground maps,...

The US Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Raytheon Co. a $422 M production contract for Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA and Block IIIB missiles. Raytheon will provide SM-2 missiles to the US Navy, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and Japan. The SM-2 employs dual-mode infrared and radio frequency guidance to...

The Lockheed Martin team developing the next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) spacecraft, known as GPS III, has successfully completed on-schedule an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) with the US Air Force, an important program milestone that precedes the Preliminary Design Review. GPS III will improve position, navigation and timing...

Honeywell announced it is developing a family of business aviation radars, IntuVue, that offers flight crews the ability to detect and avoid previously unforeseen turbulence, windshears and dangerous storm activity so they can make more informed route decisions, thereby increasing passenger comfort and safety while decreasing weather-related costs due...

RFID stakeholders worldwide are being urged to participate in the European Commission-funded CASAGRAS project by joining its Global Forum at www.rfidglobal.eu. In order to obtain the widest possible input of opinions and ideas, anyone with an interest in RFID and its applications is being urged to join the free...

StoLPaN, the pan-European consortium driving adoption of Near Field Communication (NFC), has announced details of the first public trial of NFC that will integrate this emerging contactless technology in the Dolomite skiing resorts of North East Italy. Tourists visiting selected hotels will be provided with NFC-enabled mobile phones and...

Thales Alenia Space España has been chosen to supply the X-band communication subsystems and the S-band telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) transponders for the first three Sentinel observation satellites in the European Space Agency’s Kopernikus programme, which was formerly known as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). The...