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Companies active in the defense industry must accurately identify technology trends for advanced defense systems, including radar, communications, electronic warfare and EO/IR. Analyzing the financial performance across a range of companies, Strategy Analytics analysis indicates that with defense budgets being cut, the defense industry was in the early stages...

I recently returned from the APMC event in Yokohama, Japan. Now I don’t mind travelling and I’m certainly used to the travails of business travel after all these years, but this was a particularly brutal journey. It basically took two days to get there with the flight and time...

The design of a highly integrated Ka-band TX front-end module is presented. The integration and packaging techniques, which combine the LTCC front-end module with the LO signal generation board, the IF distribution board and the cooling system are considered in detail. The efficient RF design process of the different...

The finite element method (FEM) has been widely adopted as an analysis and design tool in many electrical engineering disciplines such as antennas, microwave and signal integrity. An FEM solver offers several important advantages over other numerical methods, including method of moments (MoM) or finite difference time domain (FDTD)....

Figure 1 Reader-Transponder-reader link in the passive UHF RFID system. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic wireless technology for data transfer developed in the 1970s. This technology has been developing in recent years and has become popular in many service industries, purchasing and distribution logistics, industry, manufacturing companies...

Raytheon Co. has received a contract from Boeing for the production of advanced APG-63(V)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array radars. The US Air Force and the US Air National Guard will receive radars from the contract and deliveries will begin in the second quarter of 2011. The radars are intended...

With prizes worth $25,000 on offer, registration has opened for NXP Semiconductors’ first-ever High Performance RF Design Challenge , which invites RF engineers and students worldwide to submit creative application ideas for RF power devices. RF power transistors have traditionally been used in telecommunications, aerospace and broadcast infrastructure, as...

Surrey NanoSystems has announced the first sales of its innovative new nanomaterial growth system, the NanoGrowth-Catalyst, to the École Polytechnique of Montreal, and the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), UK. These research organizations have chosen the NanoGrowth-Catalyst as a platform for their work on materials including carbon...

A seven-year, £47 M contract has been awarded to BAE Systems by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide support for the Combat Management System (CMS) on the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus. The JSS is being delivered by BAE Systems employees in...

The Sumitomo/Thales Joint Venture has signed a contract worth nine billion yen (approximately €80 M) with the Philippines’ Department of Transportation & Communications (DoTC) for the nationwide modernization of the Philippines Communications, Navigation Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) facilities and systems. Thales will deploy its latest generation Eurocat...