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My initial reaction to the International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR) several years ago was, “What a nightmare. I don’t want anything to do with it.” I quickly learned that there is no choice—the law is clear. Within those regulations resides the United States Munitions List (USML) beginning on...

In the 21 st Century the provision of secure, reliable communications and data is paramount in maintaining national and global security and the safe deployment and operation of military forces. This article outlines the vital role that microwave technology plays, giving examples that illustrate the practical deployment of microwave...

This article introduces the solid-state microwave technologies and techniques employed in modern radar receiver protector designs. A wide range of device examples are used to illustrate the technology and design concepts. Receiver protection in modern radars is playing an increasingly vital role in order to meet the challenges of...

Communications at mmW frequencies offers several unique and very potent advantages as well as some sizable disadvantages. In order to develop cost-effective, high performance links a solid understanding of the issues and in particular how to benefit from the advantages while mitigating the disadvantages is crucial. Reduced hardware size...

Military Brochure The revised military brochure from AR Modular RF features a family of booster amplifiers for tactical military radios that covers 30 to 512 MHz and 12 to 40 W. The family features several versions including manpack or vehicular mounted, manual or automatic band switching and a SINCGARS...

Recently Antenna Products Corporation faced the challenge of designing an antenna for a military application in the 5 to 6 GHz region. The application required an omnidirectional azimuth pattern and a relatively narrow beam in elevation. The antenna would have been difficult and expensive to design using conventional build...

Strategy Analytics estimates that total GaAs device market (merchant and captive) revenues grew 10 percent year-on-year in 2006 with the market leaders, RFMD , Skyworks and TriQuint consolidating their overall ownership of the market from 47 to 55 percent. This announcement comes from the annual Strategy Analytics ranking of...

A planar composite lowpass filter implemented in microstrip line, designed by image parameter method will be described. This composite filter combines four filter sections and presents an attenuation pole near the cut off frequency to ensure sharp cut off. This filter design also ensuring good matching properties in the...

OML Inc. , a leading manufacturer of vector network analyzer frequency extension modules for waveguide bands from 50 to 500 GHz, has received a "Certificate of Recognition" honoring Chuck Oleson, the company president, "for the creative development of a technical innovation which has been approved for publication as a...

Ansoft Corp.: HFSS v11 HFSS is the industry-standard software for S-parameter and full-wave SPICE extraction and for the electromagnetic simulation of high-frequency and high-speed components. Visit Ansoft Corp.'s Vendor View --> Auriga Measurement Systems LLC: ATE Services 50 MHz to 110 GHz The company's turn-key, fully automated, component test...