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EADS is to supply the German army with software valued at €23 M for its modern army command and control information system (FüInfoSys Heer), a system designed to equip the army with a comprehensive range of highly mobile battlefield and command-post facilities over the next few years. This is...

The IEEE has approved work to begin on an amendment to the IEEE 802.11™ standard for wireless local area networks (WLAN). The project under development involves a wireless LAN standard amendment for WLAN devices to support protection of management frames. IEEE P802.11w, “Amendment to Standard for Information Technology –...

According to In-Stat, the enterprise WLAN equipment market is at an interesting crossroads. While Symbol and a variety of start-up vendors have pioneered an overlay “WLAN switch” architecture for centralized management of so-called “thin APs,” they are now being increasingly challenged in the market by large Ethernet switch vendors,...

The ZigBee™ Alliance, an association of companies working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard, announced 20 new member companies, bringing its total membership to more than 150 companies. New member companies include: Contec Co. Ltd.; Creston Electronics Inc.; Digital Sun...

Radio-Frequency and Microwave Communication Circuits Analysis and Design, Second Edition Devendra K. Misra J Wiley Interscience 626 pages; $135 ISBN: 0-471-47873-3 Wireless technology continues to grow at a tremendous rate, with new applications still reported almost daily. The second edition of this book maintains the earlier approach of a...

Raytheon Co. Affordable Ground Based Radar (AGBR) successfully completed all planned system performance testing recently. The final milestone is the culmination of more than four years of working with the Marine Corps to find the best solutions, utilizing engineering innovation, development, integration and test activities sponsored by the Office...

RFID supply chain mandates launched by a few big retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target are now well documented and understood. But many other retailers are finding problems and frustrations when they try to apply RFID in the same way. Why? Because, says ABI Research analyst, Sara Shah, “There...

Design Application Note This application note is for designers using FPGAs to create easy-to-update products in a wide variety of markets. “Selecting an I/O Architecture for Your FPGA Design” will help engineers clearly understand leading factors that degrade performance in today’s most popular I/O. Agilent Technologies Inc., Palo Alto,...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has begun nationwide deployment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) public key infrastructure (PKI), which provides increased security for its information technology systems. PKI is an IT infrastructure of cryptographic software that generates two large mathematically related numbers used to help identify the user. These...

Raytheon Co.’s low cost Patriot GEM-T missiles destroyed two target drones during a test conducted at White Sands Missile Range, NM. During the test, a Patriot Configuration-3 firing unit successfully intercepted two low flying target drones, destroying both targets. This test went smoothly as planned, with the ground equipment...