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Northrop Grumman Corp. will integrate a new, more capable weather radar system on US Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft under a recent award from the Air Force’s Electronic Systems Center. The new radar will give pilots more accurate information about weather conditions...

Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully completed on-schedule the critical design review phase of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program and is beginning production of the next generation military communications satellite system. AEHF is the successor to the Milstar system and will provide global, highly secure, protected,...

Dana Corp. (DCN) is deploying what it claims to be a ‘revolutionary’, proprietary technology that harnesses highly efficient microwave energy to accomplish dozens of processes, including the heat treating and coating of metal and ceramic parts. The company’s Microwave Plasma Technology operates at atmospheric pressure. This is significant, as...

A strategic alliance has been formed between Royal Philips Electronics and Checkpoint Systems aimed at providing RFID-enabled tags and readers combined with system integration services to retailers and fast moving consumer products companies. The companies will combine their expertise to address the growing need for RFID-based technology in day-to-day...

The Canadian Government has awarded a contract worth CAN$3.29 M for a reconfigurable satellite terminal technology demonstration project, to a tri-team of companies comprising QinetiQ, Spectrum Signal Processing and MacDonald Dettwiler. The project is designed to develop, integrate and demonstrate a reconfigurable, multi-function ground-based satellite communications terminal that can...

Bookham Technology plc has announced that it has entered into an agreement by which it will acquire Onetta Inc., a provider of optical amplifier modules and subsystems for communications networks, based in Sunnyvale, CA. Onetta designs and manufactures intelligent erbium-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFA) for current and next-generation optical communication...

Indra estimates revenues of around €350 M for its participation in the Transatlantic Industrial Proposed Solution (TIPS) consortium chosen by NATO to develop and launch the AGS surveillance and recognition system. The consortium is completed by EADS, Galileo Avionica (Italy), General Dynamics (Canada), Northrop Grumman (US) and Thales (France)....

The UWB Forum announced that following a successful launch in late February 2004, it has signed up 30 members and is in talks with several major corporate supporters to join the growing coalition. The group’s rapid growth has been fueled by interest in an ultra-wideband (UWB) solution that is...

The first IEC/IEEE International Standard, which relates to instrument buses, has been published under a joint cooperation agreement. The publication of this standard under the joint agreement indicates how industry worldwide can benefit from a rational approach to international standardization that makes optimum use of existing, market-relevant technical standards....

The IEEE has approved the start of work on four projects concerning IEEE 802.15™ wireless personal area network (WPAN) standards. These projects involve a wireless mesh topology standard for WPAN devices and alterations to the high rate WPAN standard so it supports new wireless multimedia uses more effectively. Two...