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Alion Science and Technology , an employee-owned technology solutions provider, has been awarded a $7 M contract to perform a wide range of radio frequency (RF) spectrum services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The three-year contract was awarded by the Defense Technical Information Center through the...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the UK’s professional society for the engineering and technology community, has signed an agreement with Nortel , the Canadian-based telecommunications company. The agreement will give the company’s certified technical community a fast track route to IET membership and allow its UK-based engineers...

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Ltd., acting through its Systems Missiles and Space Group, MBT Space Division, to supply RF communication assemblies for the Amos-4 communication satellite. IAI, the prime contractor of Amos-4, is building the satellite for Israeli satellite operator Spacecom...

Alcatel-Lucent and INRIA , the French national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, have opened their joint research laboratory for next generation networks. This collaboration emphasizes the desire to improve existing networks...

Digitel Mobile Philippines Inc. (DMPI), a cellular telecommunications provider, which operates under the brand name of Sun Cellular, has selected Ceragon Networks Ltd. ’s Native2 FibeAir® solutions for deployment as part of its network upgrade to provide 3G data and multimedia services based on IP technology. This order totaling...

A breakthrough technology was recently introduced that will dramatically reduce the time and cost of deploying high availability mobile communications networks for homeland defense operations. “Software virtual networks” (SVN) can now be built that enable engineers to evaluate new wireless network components and technologies faster and at much lower...

OEwaves Inc. has been awarded a contract by DARPA to develop a multi-function and reduced SWAP optical SIGINT receiver prototype that will significantly improve system configurability and platform compatibility for future SIGINT and EW systems. OEwaves will develop the photonic receiver front-end, and in collaboration with ITT , demonstrate...

Keithley Instruments Inc. , a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, has introduced Keithley Test Environment Interactive (KTEI) V7.1 for the company's award-winning Model 4200-SCS Semiconductor Characterization System. This software upgrade includes support for testing higher power semiconductor devices. With support for low-level device characterization through higher power...

MtronPTI , a producer of frequency control and filter products, announced the XO5166 & XO5167 Series HCMOS output OCXO. This series offers full Stratum 3 compliance per GR-1244-CORE and hermeticity per MIL-STD-202, Method 112. The XO5166 & XO5167 Series has a wide frequency range of 10 to 53 MHz...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced two new SMT packaged GaAs pHEMT MMIC Gain Block Amplifiers, which are ideal for automotive, broadband, CATV, cellular/3G, WiMAX/4G and fixed wireless applications from 50 MHz to 4 GHz. The HMC636ST89E and...