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CTIA WIRELESS 2009 is the largest and most comprehensive US tradeshow in the wireless industry, so it should be a prime show for the RF/microwave industry. It is the convergence of more than 1,200 exhibiting companies, dozens of industries, and over 40,000 professionals from 125 countries all working toward...

Characterization of digital communication systems and related RF hardware relies on complex test systems. These systems play a critical role in design and production performance evaluation. The building blocks of a digital communication system often require simultaneous time and frequency domain analyses, blurring the lines between the dedicated functions...

Lockheed Martin announced that the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite is now undergoing thermal vacuum testing at the company’s Sunnyvale, CA facilities. The US Air Force’s Advanced EHF system will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable communications for warfighters operating on ground, sea and air...

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $16 M contract from the US Navy for production of five additional AN/UPX-24(V) interrogator sets for the US Navy and the Australian Navy. The AN/UPX-24(V) is a shipboard identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) processor system that is used to identify aircraft or ships equipped with an...

Raytheon Co.’s Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) at Thule Air Base, Greenland, has achieved a significant milestone on its path toward operational status, successfully tracking its first satellite in an operational space surveillance mission configuration. “It is impressive that this event was accomplished after only 31 hours of test...

The US Navy has awarded Raytheon Co. a $5.5 M contract for a technology maturation study of next-generation jammer capability. The Next Generation Jammer program will support the Navy’s airborne electronic attack requirements by developing innovative ways of tactical jamming against current and future threats from the EA-18G aircraft...

Royal Philips Electronics and VTT have opened an InnoHub in the city of Espoo, close to Helsinki to generate innovative ideas and translate these into profitable businesses. The two companies have an equal role in the cooperation. The InnoHub is situated in the Active Life Village (a non-profit company...

The European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, and the Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, Heinz Zourek, have signed an amendment to the EC-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) agreement that will extend the scope of the original Agreement...

Saab’s investment in India is continuing with the opening of an office in New Delhi, which will support the company in its efforts to market products for defence and civil security in the Indian market. Saab is committed to providing its cutting-edge technologies across air, land and sea. The...

The Open University and e2v will open the e2v Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) at The Open University’s Milton Keynes, UK, campus. The centre will be dedicated to the research and development of advanced technologies for electronic image sensing and provide knowledge exchange between the UK technology industry and...