Industry News

Amphenol Signs QLF License Agreement

In what is truly a global undertaking, Huber + Suhner AG , Switzerland and Radiall SA , France have signed a license agreement with Amphenol Corp. , USA, to develop, manufacture and distribute QMA and QN connectors and components under the Quick Lock Formula (QLF) trademark. This trademark indicates...
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EADS Secures French Gendarmerie Network Modernisation

In a contract, worth €32 million, EADS Secure Networks has signed a four-year contract with the French National Gendarmerie (Military Police) to modernize its RUBIS secure radio communications network. Thus enabling the Gendarmerie to ensure long-term viability of its radio communications network, benefit from new applications and better respond...
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Industry Outlook

Industry status as of March 2006 The SIA has released revenue numbers for January 2006 of $17.42 billion dollars (raw numbers not 3 month moving average). The January numbers are up from $17.34 billion dollars in January of 2005 and represents a 0.5 percent growth month over month. Figure...
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Around the Circuit

Industry News QUALCOMM Inc. announced that the company has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc. , a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company. Berkana is a provider of complementary metal oxide semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits to the wireless industry. The addition of Berkana’s RF CMOS intellectual property, design portfolio and engineering...
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First Flight Tests of Airborne Networking System Complete

Northrop Grumman Corp. and the US Air Force successfully completed flight testing of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), a significant milestone toward providing warfighters an advanced way to share critical information by communicating over airborne networks at high altitudes. BACN is an Internet protocol-based airborne communications relay and...
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Guided MLRS Unitary Rocket Successfully Tested

Lockheed Martin successfully conducted three flight tests of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rockets recently in three separate missions at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The tests objectives included demonstrating the GMLRS Unitary rocket in the point detonate, delay and proximity modes at short and long...
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