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Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR ® ) and Peregrine Semiconductor announced the availability of a process design kit (PDK) for Peregrine's UltraCMOS complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process in AWR's Analog Office ® design suite, a software product developed specifically for analog and radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC)...

At the Farnborough International Air Show in the UK, SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems UK announced that it has won a contract to supply its combat proven Hostile Artillery Locating System (HALO) to the Canadian Department of National Defense. The £7.5 M contract is for the supply of multiple...

Raytheon Co. has won an initial $38 M contract from the Global Positioning System (GPS) Joint Program Office at the US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to design next-generation global positioning receivers. An additional award to complete development and fabricate pre-production receiver cards for test and integration...

EFJ Inc. announced that it acquired 3e Technologies International (3eTI), a privately held, Maryland-based company. 3eTI is a technology company that offers security solutions for wireless platforms such as WiFi, mesh networking and Bluetooth. 3eTI also develops and sells secure wireless infrastructure that meet Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS...

Microwave Journal ® announced the creation of a five-year fellowship award program for graduate students or working engineers to enable continuing education in the field of RF and microwave engineering. An annual fellowship of $5,000 will be awarded each spring. The fellowship program is named in honor of William...

Surprising Fort Worth: Culture in Cowtown Julie Teinert Mimix Broadband Inc. Fort Worth... The FW in DFW airport. Often overlooked by the glitz and glassy skyline of its neighbor to the east. Most often associated with cowboys and livestock, Fort Worth does indeed offer a glimpse into Texas’ rich...

Ducommun Inc. announced that its Ducommun Technologies Inc. (DTI) subsidiary has opened and begun production in its new manufacturing facility in Thailand. Initial production supports DTI’s high performance and high reliability commercial microwave switches to service the growing demands in the US and other international markets. The facility is...

Gennum Corp. , a leader in volume manufacturing of Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) capacitor chips, announced that Paratek Microwave Inc. , a leader in the design of radio frequency (RF) solutions, has selected Gennum's manufacturing process for its proprietary products geared towards the RF markets. The primary application for...

Due to their superior RF performance and high reliability, laterally diffused MOSFET (LDMOS) devices are widely used in high power RF amplifiers for wireless communications. For high power amplifiers, transistor reliability is always a major concern. An important characteristic that makes MOSFET devices more reliable than bipolar transistors is...

TriQuint Semiconductor , a supplier of microwave and millimeter-wave products for the defense industry and RF front-end modules for wireless handsets, announced that the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded TriQuint a 20-month, $3.1 M contract to improve manufacturing methods of producing high power, high voltage S-band gallium...