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The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Yoshio Utsumi, has confirmed the recommendation of the ITU TELECOM Board to hold the next ITU TELECOM WORLD in 2006 in Hong Kong, China, following an evaluation of the final offers received from Geneva and Hong Kong on 28 May 2004....

Alcatel and Finmeccanica have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their space activities and form alliances in the space sector through the creation of two sister companies, to which both partners will contribute their respective satellite industrial and service activities. The first company, Alcatel Alenia Space, of which...

BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) has been selected to join the European Antenna Centre of Excellence (ACE) initiative, established to provide a European wide platform for research and development into the next generation of antenna technologies. The ACE initiative is funded to the order of €4.9 M under...

In what is considered to be a significant breakthrough, Saab Ericsson Space AB, Sweden, has received an order for Ku-band frequency converters for the JCSAT-10 payload from Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, which will be delivered on a 12 month schedule. The converters are similar to those previously supplied...

NATO forces in Afghanistan will soon benefit from enhanced communications following a contract award to Cogent Defence and Security Networks, the UK operating company of EADS Defence and Communications Systems Group. Under the contract the company will install a secure, trunked Tetrapol ISAF Command Network to provide command communications...

UK-based radio and satellite communications systems specialist, TRL Technology Ltd., has supplied its turnkey Asset Tracking solution to the Royal Navy’s Maritime Warfare Centre, as part of an important trial initiative for blue force tracking. This builds on the company’s recent contract win to supply its advanced militarised asset...

Optical Fibers and RF: A Natural Combination Malcom Romeiser Noble Publishing 272 pages; $69 ISBN: 1-884932-45-2 The optical fiber industry has experienced a period of consolidation and reorganization and is now poised for a new surge in growth. Taking the approach that optical fibers are an extension of RF-based...

Northrop Grumman Corp. will integrate a new, more capable weather radar system on US Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft under a recent award from the Air Force’s Electronic Systems Center. The new radar will give pilots more accurate information about weather conditions...

Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully completed on-schedule the critical design review phase of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program and is beginning production of the next generation military communications satellite system. AEHF is the successor to the Milstar system and will provide global, highly secure, protected,...

Dana Corp. (DCN) is deploying what it claims to be a ‘revolutionary’, proprietary technology that harnesses highly efficient microwave energy to accomplish dozens of processes, including the heat treating and coating of metal and ceramic parts. The company’s Microwave Plasma Technology operates at atmospheric pressure. This is significant, as...