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WCDMA Design Handbook Andrew Richardson Cambridge University Press • 590 pages; $100 This book addresses the subject of wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) as defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and provides a detailed review of the architecture and the operation of the system. The focus...

Lockheed Martin successfully conducted four separate flight tests of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rocket at White Sands Missile Range, NM, concluding the first phase of the production qualification testing requirement series for the contract. The test objectives included demonstrating the capability of the GMLRS Unitary...

Raytheon Co. Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) at Beale Air Force Base, CA, performed successfully in a flight test of the Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The test was conducted by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The UEWR, developed by Raytheon...

Securing the future of Northrop Grumman Corp. operations in San Bernardino, CA, the company opened its newly constructed Missile Engineering Center. Northrop Grumman’s presence in San Bernardino spans more than 43 years of critical support to the nation’s defense. With more than 230 scientists, engineers and other professionals in...

Harris Corp. announced that the US Marine Corps has awarded the company orders totaling approximately $140 M for Falcon® II AN/PRC-150(C) high frequency (HF) radios and AN/PRC-117F(C) multiband, multimission radios (MBMMR). The orders have been awarded under two previously announced contracts. Harris will supply its AN/PRC-150(C) manpack and AN/VRC-104(V)...

The ZigBee™ Alliance, the industry association promoting the growth of a global, open standard for wireless control of devices, has admitted Siemens at the highest level of membership — Promoter level. As a result the company joins BM Group, Ember Corp., Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Honeywell, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Philips,...

BAE Systems has signed a partnership agreement with Hellenic Aerospace Industry SA (HAI) of Greece, under which the two companies will examine potential areas of co-operation in both the Greek domestic and export markets. The new agreement commits the two companies to establishing a joint working group to examine...

VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland has announced a new product development technology for the software industry, which it claims can save up to 70 per cent in the development of new software products. The method developed by the research centre is an agile method called Mobile-D,™ which is...

In a cash transaction that will be valued up to a maximum of €32.5 M, Wavecom SA, a leader in embedded wireless communications platforms for automotive, industrial (machine-to-machine) and mobile professional applications, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, have signed an agreement whereby Wavecom acquires certain assets of Sony...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become and will continue to be very important in the area of automatic identification. Regarded as a potential successor to the bar-coding technologies and other automatic identification methods that are used today, RFID’s significant advantage is the contact-less, non-line-of-sight nature of the technology. RFID...