Articles by Dan Massé, Associate Technical Editor

Lockheed Martin announced it submitted a proposal in response to the government’s Request for Proposal for the next phases of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program. “Lockheed Martin’s JAGM builds on HELLFIRE, LONGBOW and Javelin, three of the most trusted precision-guided weapons on the battlefield today,” said Frank St....

Air, sea and land electronic warfare (ASLEW) is waged within the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum to both attack and defend against enemy personnel and equipment. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, “Space Communications Systems and Electronic Warfare,” predicts that space communications systems will play a strategic role...

A new antenna system now under development by Northrop Grumman Corp. will enable the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to send and receive battlefield information securely by satellite up to 100 times faster than it can today. The US Air Force recently awarded the company a $372 M contract to...

The Boeing Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system (UAS) successfully completed its first flight April 27 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, CA. The 17-minute flight took place following a series of high speed taxi tests in March that validated ground guidance, navigation and control...

Harris Corp. has introduced KnightHawk™ 3G — a ruggedized, highly mobile tactical base station that enables warfighters on the move to maintain 3G cellular services in locations with limited or no cellular connectivity. Jointly developed by Harris and Battlefield Telecommunications Systems (BTS™), KnightHawk 3G is a customizable cellular Network-in-a-Box...

Even while the handset portion of the compound semiconductor market remains the largest revenue producer, Strategy Analytics sees that leading device suppliers are diversifying their portfolios by developing additional products for infrastructure, broadband and military applications. The recently published Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service viewpoint, “Compound...

Around the world, operators are starting to move out of 4G trials and switching to commercial services. With 4G, there will not be the generous allocation of spectrum to which the 3G licensees were lucky enough to have access. The re-farming of spectrum and its reallocation from alternative applications...

Total handsets sold to end-users globally will reach 1.46 billion in 2011, while smartphone sales will account for 27 percent of total handset sell-through. Driven by demand for inexpensive Android models, this figure will almost double to 53 percent in 2015, according to Pyramid Research’s quarterly smartphone forecast. Offered...

In 2011, the world’s annual data traffic volume will total almost 8,000 petabytes. That will grow at a CAGR of 50 percent over the following years, exceeding 60,000 petabytes in 2016 – over seven times more than in 2011. The year-on-year growth will be the fastest in 2012 (58...

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has the potential to power a range of new applications collecting and sharing personal fitness and health management data, but delays in product deliveries to markets over the past 12 months have some application developers looking to rival technologies and protocols. The Bluetooth SIG did...