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ASK HARLAN YOUR RF & MICROWAVE TECH Q&A RESOURCE You may know Harlan Howe from his twelve years as publisher and editor of Microwave Journal ®, or from his 34 years as a Microwave design engineer and engineering manager, or from his service as an IEEE fellow and past...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $16.8 M production option to a previously awarded US Army Communications - Electronic Command (CECOM) contract for the production of AN/TPN-31 Air Traffic Navigation, Integration and Coordination Systems (ATNAVICS) and AN/FPN-67 Fixed Base Precision Approach Radar (FBPAR) systems. ATNAVICS is a completely self-contained...

CECOM has selected Rockwell Collins as the standard supplier of GPS engines to the US Army, enabling support of soldiers on the three-dimensional digital battle space. Rockwell Collins won the competitive two-year ground-based GPS receiver application module (GB-GRAM) contract that has an estimated value of $30 M when the...

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), FL, awarded Lockheed Martin a $12 M contract for the Autonomous Wide Area Search Munition (AWASM) program, focused on integrating a two-way data link capability into a wide area search miniature munition. The contract launches a 30-month effort...

Raytheon Co. has been selected to enter into negotiation toward an estimated $50 M Future Combat Systems (FCS) contract to serve as Ground System Integrator (GSI). The announcement of this selection for negotiations was made by FCS Lead System Integrator (LSI), led by Boeing, on behalf of the US...

Lockheed Martin has been selected as one of two contractors to develop a follow-on weapon system to the Shoulder-Launched Multi-purpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) for the US Marine Corps. The contract is for the system integration phase (SIP) of the follow-on to SMAW (FOTS) program. It calls for Lockheed Martin...

The response time and coordination of the emergency services in Czluchow, Poland, are set to improve, after the Polish government commissioned a pilot project to set up a new control centre equipped with a modern TETRA radio system. With a view to improving internal security and cooperation among rescue...

To provide an end-to-end solution for its national broadband wireless network, New Zealand's Broadcast Communications Limited (BCL), the state owned communications network company, has contracted Alcatel to deploy optical transport and microwave radio equipment to backhaul its broadband access radio traffic. The company will implement an integrated end-to-end solution...

SES ASTRA has awarded Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) the contract to design and manufacture two high powered communications satellites to be deployed at ASTRA's prime continental European orbital position of 19.2° East. Due to be launched in the second half of 2005 and in 2006, respectively, the...

UK-based Antenova has announced a contract with the Radiocommunications Agency to develop multi-input multi-output (MIMO) prototype antenna arrays. The contract was won by a collaboration consisting of Antenova, the Queen Mary University of London and operator, Orange. It forms part of a wider investigation commissioned by the Radiocommunications Agency...