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Northrop Grumman announced that its Guardian™ Counter-Man Portable Air Defense System (C-MANPADS) currently installed on nine wide-body aircraft flying commercial revenue service has achieved 12,000 on-aircraft operational hours. “The program and system are a continuing success,” said Robert Del Boca, sector vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s...

Lockheed Martin successfully conducted two Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary Rocket Phase II Product Qualification tests at White Sands Missile Range, NM. These “GPS2 jamming” tests demonstrated both GMLRS rocket performance while in a GPS jamming environment at long range, as well as the functionality of the...

With the award of $36.1 M, Raytheon Co. has won the majority share of US Air Force competitive contracts for Paveway™ II laser guided bomb components for fiscal year 2007. This is the third consecutive Air Force majority share award for Raytheon, setting a benchmark for affordability and performance...

The French armaments directorate (DGA) has awarded EADS Defence & Security and Astrium a contract worth €28 M for the design, development, installation and operational maintenance of the Portail Hôte d’Accès au Renseignement de l’Observation Spatiale (PHAROS) system. From 2009, PHAROS (an access portal for satellite intelligence) will enable...

New Norwegian chip company, Energy Micro AS, has been created by former key executives of Chipcon. The new company’s stated aim is to create the industry’s most energy friendly microcontrollers based on modern and powerful microprocessor architectures. The company has already received financial support from Innovation Norway and will...

STMicroelectronics and Automotive Communications Systems (ACS) are to jointly develop communications integrated circuits for Vehicle and Infrastructure Integration (VII). The VII initiative is investigating the potential safety benefits of car-to-car and car-to-roadside high-speed communications. Contributors include the US Federal Government, state governments, the world’s leading car companies, suppliers, consultants...

QinetiQ, as part of the KAIROS Consortium, which L-3 Communications leads and also includes LogicaCMG, has been awarded a share in a £1 M, 10-month UK MoD contract for the Assessment Phase of Project LISTENER, for risk reduction and solution definition. The Project integrates sensor products in order to...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have agreed to collaborate on interconnecting all African capitals and major cities with ICT broadband infrastructure and strengthen connectivity to the rest of the world by 2012. As part of this collaboration, both organisations will actively mobilize partners...

Chinese vendors, led by Huawei Technologies and ZTE, have become more active in the RF power amplifier market with significant effect on the device market. “This is both an opportunity and a threat,” says ABI research director Lance Wilson. “The Chinese position in the RF power amplifier and device...

According to In-Stat, after years of promises, Ultra-wideband (UWB) devices are finally here. Based on short range, high data rate radio technology, most early UWB-enabled devices deliver in the range of 40 to 100 Mbps, with future devices delivering much higher speeds. The first UWB device to hit the...