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L-3 Telemetry-East (L-3 TE), a division of L-3 Communications, announced that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to upgrade fielded telemetry ground receivers to incorporate the C-Band spectrum for the U.S. Air Force. Over the past two years, engineers at Edwards AFB and L-3 TE have been...

SunCastle Microwave LLC , specializing in innovative microwave and antenna design, announces the availability of its new product: 500 MHz to 20 GHz High Gain Omnidirectional Antenna, patent pending. This versatile revolutionary small size omnidirectional (fixed on the horizon) antenna, combines high gain and over a decade of bandwidth,...

Raytheon Co. RTN has been awarded the first competitive Public Safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) contract in the nation, as well as the first contract under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), for recipients of the FCC 700 MHz Broadband Waiver. The $8.7 M contract will provide Adams County,...

China Mobile Research Institute, the R&D division of China Mobile, and Rohde & Schwarz have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaborating on the research of TD-LTE testing technology and test system development. The MoU highlights the cooperation on joint research in TD-LTE testing technology and test instrument...

Roke Manor Research has launched Battlefield Connect, a portable wireless broadband base station which creates a private communications network for military tactical deployments, whilst significantly enhancing spectrum use. The Battlefield Connect evaluation system is claimed to be the world's first portable 3G base station to have a range of...

AWR® Corp. announced that the merger with National Instruments , as first announced on May 23, 2011, has now been completed. As previously announced, AWR will continue to operate as a wholly owned NI subsidiary under the leadership of the existing management team. "We are pleased to have progressed...

Transline Technology Inc. , which has been in the printed circuit board business for more than 20 years, broadened its scope of services significantly by acquiring HI Electronics . HI Electronics, also 20-year industry veteran, was formerly located in Los Angeles, CA. All of their equipment and staff have...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. introduced a new family of low noise amplifiers (LNA) for Cellular Infrastructure applications. The LNAs facilitate easy implementation in multiple RF and microwave front-end circuits including GSM, CDMA, W-CDMA and LTE base stations and repeaters. The GaAs-based amplifiers meet the high performance requirements of telecommunications...

Congratulations to Strand Marketing and client San-tron for the foam crab hats campaign. These fun hats with the San-Tron logo were worn all over the show floor and at many after hour gatherings. Strand encouraged attendees to help with his clients branding by running a photo contest for the...

ORBIT Communication Systems Ltd. , a subsidiary of Orbit Technologies Ltd., a satellite communications, tracking & telemetry, and communications management systems provider, announced the recruit of Carlo Rizzo. As part of its growth strategy for the European market, ORBIT named Rizzo to head its telemetry and earth observation business...