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THAAD Radar Successful in Missile Defense Test

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) radar, built by Raytheon Co., performed successfully in the latest integrated flight test conducted by the Missile Defense Agency and THAAD prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The test marked a significant ‘first’ for the THAAD...
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Lockheed Martin Begins Test Phase of Advanced EHF Military COMSAT

Lockheed Martin announced that the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite is now undergoing thermal vacuum testing at the company’s Sunnyvale, CA, facilities. The US Air Force’s AEHF system will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable communications for all warfighters serving under the US Department of...
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Around The Circuit

Ceralta Technologies Inc. was formed by the investment group that originally owned TRU Corp. by merging TRU into Ceralta and subsequently acquiring Sage Laboratories Inc. Both TRU and Sage are now wholly-owned subsidiaries of Ceralta. Ceralta’s mission is to creatively apply RF, microwave and digital technologies to enhance the...
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US Navy Selects GeneSiC for SBIR Awards

GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc. , a key innovator of novel Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices for high temperature, high power, ultra-high voltage and detector applications, announced that it has been selected by the US Navy for two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards. These awards will allow GeneSiC to develop high...
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Expert Advice Responses Page (August)

Published Tuesday, August 15, 2008 | Last Update 8.15.08 Here are your replies to the August Expert Advice column While user interfaces in microwave CAE software have remained relatively stable, important strides have been made in simulation technology. Today, more designs incorporate integrated chip, package, module and board systems...
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Literature Showcase

RF and Microwave Connectors Volume 6 of Delta Electronics Manufacturing's full-line catalog contains over 200 pages of information on over 30 series of RF and microwave connectors, ranging in size from microminiature to large, high-power connectors. Along with common connector types, the catalog features many hard-to-find series, and a...
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Cellular Backhaul Drives Point-to-Point Radio Market

The latest study from Strategy Analytics, “Point-to-Point Radio GaAs Market 2007-2012,” predicts that point-to-point radio shipments will increase at a compound annual average growth rate (CAAGR) of 8 percent, to exceed 1.5 million units in 2012. Radio cellular backhaul will continue to be the primary market for point-to-point radios,...
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ITU Invitation to Marconi Celebration

According to the story told in 1968 by a senior citizen of Salvan, in 1895 Guglielmo Marconi carried out some of his earliest wireless experiments in the vicinity of this picturesque village of the Swiss Alps. The IEEE duly acknowledged this event, and granted a “Historical Milestone in Electrical...
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Comtech Receives $7.6 M from US Army

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $7.6 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $605.1 M MTS IDIQ contract increased to $133.6 M. The orders are...
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