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The US Marine Corps has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a contract valued at $256.6 M to develop its new Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), which consolidates the missions of five Marine Corps radars into a multi-role radar system. The contract scope of work during this first program phase includes...

Harris Corp. has completed the formal testing of its Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal prototype system two weeks ahead of schedule. The company’s completion of the prototype test represents yet another success in a series of milestone achievements for Harris, which is competing for the $1...

Aloha! Hawai'i welcomes all participants of the 2007 International Microwave Symposium (IMS). The traditional Hawaiian greeting of aloha is often accompanied with song (mele) and dance (hula) and the adornment of fragrant garlands of flowers (lei). However, aloha is more than just a salutation; it embodies the essence of...

This year there will be an exchange of cultures as East meets West when the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and Exhibition is held in Honolulu, HI. The technical program continues to be the largest microwave meeting in the world with seven parallel sessions plus the usual panel...

E Komo Mai (Welcome) to Honolulu, HI, this year’s host city of what is widely regarded as the most prestigious microwave industry gathering in the world: the 2007 International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2007). IMS 2007 is the largest international conference devoted to the research, development, and application of RF...

David Vye joins the staff at Microwave Journal as technical editor and business development manager. Vye was formerly a product-marketing manager with Ansoft Corp., responsible for high frequency circuit/system design tools and technical marketing communications. He is a 1984 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, with a...

Tyco Electronics announced a strategic alliance with OATSystems to provide a series of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions to a variety of vertical markets that include aerospace and defense, transportation and industrial segments. “Customers are looking for RFID system solutions that eliminate the tedious and risky integration that comes...

A new RF system platform has been introduced that is user configurable and easily adapted to meet many of today’s military and commercial requirements. The PET-VI features a six-inch color LCD touch-screen display that facilitates easy system control and configuration. The platform consists of three plug-and-play field-replaceable modules comprised...

Pulsed IV (current-voltage) measurements have emerged as the preferred method of capturing current-voltage characteristics of active devices such as field effect transistors (FET) and bipolar junction transistors (BJT). With the growing popularity of high power devices like GaN HEMTs and LDMOS devices, the current-voltage requirements are constantly being pushed...

A complete day-by-day schedule of the technical presentations that compose the MTT-S, RFIC, ARFTG and mAPS conferences. You may download a complete list of the 2007 IEEE MTT-S Technical Program in a PDF from here: 2007 IEEE MTT-S Technical Program...