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Manchester, UK is regarded as the home of the Industrial Revolution, and will fittingly host the 2006 European Microwave Week from Sunday 10 September to Friday 15 September, to promote the RF and microwave industry’s current invention and productivity. Aptly too, the G-MEX/MICC that will house this flagship event...

Manchester is a fascinating mix of the historical and the modern where the ornate and sometimes austere Victorian architecture sits happily alongside contemporary metallic and glass structures. Its industrial and trading past has been preserved with many of the warehouses, trading halls, factories and civic buildings having been renovated...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has named its team of partner companies for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secure Border Initiative Net (SBInet) competition. SBInet is a six-year, $2 B program that will provide the DHS’s Customs and Border Protection directorate with a comprehensive border-protection solution comprised of integrated technologies,...

Raytheon Co. will develop and deploy a new communications network for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). The $14 M contract calls for Raytheon to build DARPA’s Secure Enterprise Network (DSEN), a state-of-the-art, secure network, and to provide support to DARPA’s existing classified systems. Raytheon was selected based...

Lockheed Martin’s extended-range JASSM™ system has successfully performed its first development flight test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The JASSM air-to-air standoff missile system is the world’s first stealthy conventional cruise missile. Launched from an Air Force B-1B Lancer, flying at Mach 0.80 and 20,000 feet above the...

Harris Corp. is expanding manufacturing capacity and increasing employment at its RF Communications Division in Rochester, NY, to meet the growing demand for the company’s advanced military communications solutions. Harris is significantly increasing the manufacturing capacity of the Rochester facility, where the company employees and government officials gathered recently...

The trade association for instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology in the UK — GAMBICA — has become an active supporter of the Sensors Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), through its involvement with the KTN’s Advanced Instrumentation Special Interest Group (AISIG). The Sensors KTN, which is managed on behalf of...

LastMile Communications Ltd. has awarded QinetiQ a £6.2 M contract to develop a wireless transceiver system that will enable the high speed delivery of local information through a network of wireless nodes placed in existing roadside furniture, including road signs, gantries and lamp posts. The contract represents part of...

ND SatCom, together with its partner EADS Space Services, has won a major contract for the next step of the German Armed Forces’ satellite communications programme, SATCOMBw Stufe 2. The project comprises the delivery of two military communication satellites, several fixed and transportable ground stations of various sizes as...

Ericsson has agreed to sell its defence business, Ericsson Microwave Systems (EMW), and its 40 percent holding in Saab Ericsson Space to Saab, subject to approvals from relevant competition and defence authorities. Under the agreement Ericsson will retain the National Security and Public Safety business and parts of the...