Articles by Dan Massé, Associate Technical Editor

The Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. announced a strategic partnership in pursuing the competitive development and sustainment contract for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system for the US Missile Defense Agency. "Boeing takes great pride in supporting the Missile Defense Agency on GMD, providing 24/7/365...

ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $21.8 M contract by the US Army to upgrade multiple AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air defense radar systems. This award is an option to the existing upgrade contract originally awarded in June 2007. The contract will upgrade the US Army Sentinel radar transmitters, receivers and exciters,...

Lockheed Martin has delivered the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, where it will be prepared for a July 30 liftoff aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle. The AEHF system will provide the US military and national leaders...

The escalated Radio Access Network (RAN) data rates for 4G networks are placing new demands on infrastructure and supporting hardware, requiring significant bandwidth upgrades (anywhere from 50 to 200 Mbps) to base stations and the backhaul layer. Aside from capacity, another less apparent impact relates to the shift to...

Wi-Fi shipment forecast by product type. Global shipments of Wi-Fi ICs have experienced an extraordinary growth in recent years, due to the increasing demands for wireless-enabled devices and enterprise level applications. Wi-Fi IC shipments are forecast to surpass 770 million units in 2010, up almost 33 percent compared to...

The ZigBee® Alliance and the IPSO (IP for Smart Objects) Alliance announced an agreement to collaborate on wireless home area networks (HAN) using the ZigBee IP specification and the ZigBee Smart Energy™ version 2.0 standard. The two alliances will collaborate on expanding HANs by using IP technology. The ZigBee...

ABI Research's Google Earth 4G deployment tracker. ABI Research has been tracking cities and population coverage for 4G for the past year. At the end of 2009 there were more than 170 802.16e carriers across 65 countries, covering 480 million people. That number is projected to cross the 1...

ABI Research's Google Earth 4G deployment tracker. ABI Research has been tracking cities and population coverage for 4G for the past year. At the end of 2009 there were more than 170 802.16e carriers across 65 countries, covering 480 million people. That number is projected to cross the 1...

United Monolithic Semiconductor (UMS), a European leader in microwave and millimeter-wave MMIC solutions, is celebrating the first year of operation of its new design and customer support center in the United States. Located in Lowell, MA, United Monolithic Semiconductors USA Inc. increases UMS's presence to better serve its expanding...

Cellular and mobile broadband PC modem shipments grew more than 55 percent in 2009. In 2008, a total of 46.4 million such modems (including USB models, PC Card modems and wireless routers) shipped; in 2009, that figure grew to more than 72 million, according to the latest market data...