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Applied Radar Inc. has been awarded a Phase 2 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop a “Wideband Subarray Digital Receiver/Exciter (DREX).” This contract builds upon Applied Radar’s on-going work with the MDA on radar receiver/exciter technology, and greatly expands the...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $107 M US Air Force contract to further the design of the Space Fence system. Under this contract, Raytheon will deliver a preliminary design and test a functional radar prototype to ensure cost and schedule certainty and technical maturity of the final design...

SRC Inc., formerly Syracuse Research Corp., recently received two contract awards with a total potential value of up to $12.3 M for its Foliage Penetrating, Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Tracking and Engagement Radar (FORESTER), a revolutionary airborne radar system that penetrates through foliage to track people and vehicles on the ground....

Lockheed Martin has received a $139.6 M contract to provide 44 combat-proven High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to the US Army. This order will increase the Army’s HIMARS launcher fleet to 375, with deliveries continuing through January 2013. Work on the contract will be performed at the company’s...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has welcomed the first 12 academic institutions admitted to participate in Sector activities under a new Resolution that encourages the involvement of universities and their associated research establishments in the work of the Union. Algeria’s Institut National des Télécommunications et des Technologies de l’Information...

Bulky satellite dishes and ground terminals could become relics of the past thanks to research currently being conducted for the European Space Agency (ESA) by Queen’s University Belfast’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), aimed at developing discrete self-aligning flat antennas. The aim of the 18-month ESA...

The UK government has invited organisations to register their interest in forming a technology and innovation centre focused on the area of high value manufacturing. The centre will be the first of an elite national network of centres, to be established and overseen by the Technology Strategy Board, that...

Cassidian has opened a new Engineering Centre in Bengaluru, India, which is the first defence oriented engineering centre operated by a foreign company in India and also a landmark in the company’s strategic goal to establish a long-term partnership with India. The new centre is staffed almost entirely with...

Millimeter-wave links at E-band frequencies can be deployed with minimal interference, allowing more efficient spectrum re-use, reducing coordination requirements, and allowing regulators to adopt a "light licensing" scheme at a fraction of the cost of "traditional" licenses, which has a number of backhaul equipment manufacturers touting its usage. Millimeter-wave...

According to a report recently released by Engalco, multi-billion dollar global markets for ground-based broadband satellite communications transceivers are expected within this decade. A series of spacecraft are being launched with highly broadband throughput capabilities. Hylas1 and Ka-SAT are already in orbit and Ka-SAT’s total throughput is 70 Gbps....