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Lockheed Martin has been selected to develop the Joint Common Missile (JCM) system, the next generation air-to-ground missile that will be carried on the US Armed Forces rotary- and fixed-wing platforms. The contract is worth approximately $5 B over the life of the program. Lockheed Martin received an initial...

Remec Inc. announced it has received an initial $8.9 M production contract from Raytheon Missile Systems for the Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missile second-generation upgrade program. This contract is a result of Raytheon’s recent demonstrated success to prove feasibility to add expanded capability to the TOW weapon system. With...

Demand for smaller, more densely packed and more powerful RF and microwave components is increasingly driving developments in a wide variety of areas, from chip packages to hand-held communication devices to phased-array antennas. In turn, the components and structures are experiencing increased levels of coupling between the electromagnetic fields...

Drop-in Replacements This drop-in replacement product family is designed for 50 V MRF150/151 and 28 V MRF141 type VDMOS general-purpose RF products. Demand for these products remains high while the number of suppliers has been reduced by recent industry consolidations. These products are ruggedized to enhance overall performance under...

Ultra-precision Service This company’s Web site offers a complete ultra-precision service for grinding, lapping, polishing, diamond sawing, laser machining and sizing a wide variety of metals (ferrous and non-ferrous). The company also offers carbide, ceramic, sapphire and other materials for industrial and scientific applications in the telecommunications, semiconductor, communications,...

Rockwell Collins, a leader in the development of extremely high frequency communication terminals, has teamed with Raytheon Co. on a US Navy Contract for the first of a two-phase process to develop the Advance Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multi-band Terminal (NMT), the Navy’s most advanced satellite communication (SATCOM)...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a contract by Boeing, the prime contractor, for work on the next-generation MILSATCOM risk reduction and system definition program. The value to Raytheon is potentially worth $19.3 M over 27 months, with $12 M in options. The MILSATCOM Joint Program Office (Air Force Space...

A team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $220 M, 24-month contract to develop the first phase of the Space-based Radar (SBR) program, which is designed to provide integrated, global, persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), as well as real-time support to US military and intelligence community...

Highly mobile, multi-band satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals from Harris Corp. are providing US Marine Corps forces deployed around the world with highly reliable satellite-based voice, video, data and Internet connectivity between headquarters operations and the battlefield. The lightweight multi-band satellite terminal (LMST) and other SATCOM solutions from Harris were...

The Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) consortium has chosen Alcatel Space as the prime contractor for the European research and development project SCORE (Service of Coordinated Operational Emergency and Rescue using EGNOS). The project will run for 24 months, and is budgeted at €2 M, including €1.1 M financed by...