Articles by Microwave Journal

Raytheon Co. has received a US Navy contract for the first phase of a two-phase process to develop the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Multi-band Terminal (NMT), the Navy's most advanced satellite communication (SATCOM) system. The company's initial funding increment is $3.1 M; the program's total value is expected...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has successfully conducted the first communication between the US air Force's Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance system and a manned airborne battle management platform. The company-funded event demonstrated a new architecture concept called the Advanced Information Architecture (AIA), which would allow Global Hawk imagery and other...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded an additional $59 M to its Global Broadcast Service (GBS) contract by the US Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, MA, extending services through December 2005. Raytheon will perform the work at various customer sites with management and administrative support out of...

The need for secure, speedy and on-demand video, voice and data — the "triple play" — has propelled cable multiple service operators (MSOs), telcos and the consumer electronics (CE) industry to develop and distribute the means to transmit this information to users worldwide. The technology firm ABI forecasts that...

Exclusive Club Seat ticket holders at Seattle Seahawks NFL football games can now spend less time in the concession line and more time catching the action by paying for items with their Seattle Seahawks PowerPayª token, featuring radio frequency identification (RFID) technology from Texas Instruments RFid Systems (TI-RFidª). Introduced...

Deploying customized, carrier-branded handsets and portals is the key to increasing subscriber revenue and driving wireless data usage. Wireless carriers from Europe to Asia have been successful with this strategy, indicating that for now, the burden continues to be on carriers and content providers to lure customers to value-added...

The technology market research firm ABI recently revised its forecast for wireless infrastructure. Demands for 3G, universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) base stations will actually outpace earlier, conservative estimates the firm issued. Total UMTS deployments for 2003 will reach just about 35,000 units, versus earlier estimates of about 32,500....

RF MEMS, Theory, Design and Technology Gabriel M. Rebeiz Wiley Interscience 483 pages; $94.50 ISBN: 0-471-20169-3 New RF and microwave frequency microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have potentially enormous and widespread applications in the telecommunication industry. This book sets out the basics of RF MEMS and describes how to design practical...