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Lockheed Martin has received a $61 M follow-on contract for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rockets. To date, more than 850 GMLRS rockets have been fired in the Global War on Terror. Work on the contract will be performed at the company’s facility in Camden, AR, and...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has set new industry records in all aspects of high-power solid-state laser production, demonstrating the readiness of these compact, portable, speed-of-light weapons to take their place on the battlefield. The company demonstrated the third critical milestone for the US military’s Joint High Power Solid State Laser...

Raytheon Co. announced satisfactory system performance onboard the USS Green Bay (LPD 20) as it completed its final acceptance trials. Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is the total ship electronics system integrator for the LPD 17 class of amphibious transport dock ships. The trials, which were held at Northrop...

Thales Alenia Space and Inmarsat have signed an Authorization To Proceed (ATP) for the development of the EuropaSat satellite to provide mobile broadcast and two-way telecommunications services in the S-band throughout Europe. Thales Alenia Space will commence work on the satellite design, based on its Spacebus 4000C3 platform and...

Ericsson and STMicroelectronics have agreed to merge Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless into a joint venture. The 50/50 joint venture will have the industry’s strongest product offering in semiconductors and platforms for mobile applications and will be an important supplier to Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and Sharp....

Eight organizations working within the advanced wireless market have recently joined the SDR Forum, bringing the total number of new members joining the Forum to 25. This growth represents a 20 percent increase in member organizations. This rapid expansion can be attributed to the growing acceptance of software defined...

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and international property group, Goodman, have linked up to establish the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, UK. Under the agreement, UKAEA will provide land at Harwell for development and an existing business base....

Indra is heading the industrial group in charge of studying the feasibility and definition of the current EGNOS satellite navigation system towards a future Multiconstellation Regional System (MRS) for the European Space Agency (ESA). The team is composed of Astrium-EADS (Germany), Deimos Engenharia (Portugal), INECO (Spain), Novatel (Canada) and...

Driven by new demand from consumer electronics and wireless applications, the global market for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) will expand to $8.8 B in 2012, up from $6.1 B in 2006, iSuppli Corp. predicts. “The markets for mainstay MEMS actuator products—like inkjet heads and Digital Light Processor (DLP) chips from...

Wireless USB refers to the Certified Wireless USB (WUSB) standard based on ultrawideband (UWB) technology that is compliant with WiMedia Alliance specifications. The subject of discussion for several years, WUSB finally hit the market in 2007 in notebook PCs from Dell and Lenovo, and in hub and dongle solutions...