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Microwave Amplifier Brochure The microwave amplifier brochure from AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation features a wide range of microwave amplifiers.The brochure highlights the “S” series (1 to 800 W, 0.8 to 20 GHz) and TWT amplifier series (1 to 4000 W, 0.8 to 45 GHz). The brochure includes photographs, descriptions, specifications...

Many major RF component suppliers are offering integrated RF front-end modules (FEM), which are rapidly being adopted in today’s cell phones. This is due to the fact that handsets do not merely make phone calls anymore; rather they are multimedia systems to be used for taking photos, playing video,...

Northrop Grumman Corp. was recently awarded a contract potentially valued at $100 M to provide Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP) systems and capabilities to Navy installations around the world. The contract was awarded by the US Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Under the terms of the five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, Northrop...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded the US Navy’s Multiband Terminal (NMT) contract, which has a combined value during its lifetime in excess of $1 B for development and production. Raytheon Network Centric Systems will develop, deliver and support an advanced satellite communication system consisting of shipboard and shore-based communication...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum value of $422 M to supply the Department of Defense with its Falcon® high frequency multiband radio systems. The contract includes an initial delivery order for the US Army valued...

The US Navy conducted a successful test launch, on May 15, of two Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched the unarmed missiles from the USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) in the Eastern Range in the Atlantic Ocean. With this two-missile Follow-on Commander...

Raytheon Co. is seeking partners to help create innovative solutions to defeat the number one killer of service members in the global war on terror—the improvised explosive device (IED). During the last six months, Raytheon’s McKinney, Texas-based Network Centric Systems has led a company-wide drive to rapidly develop and...

Nokia Research Centre (NRC) and Tampere University of Technology (TUT) are creating a new framework to tighten open and innovative collaboration in their research activities. Through this initiative TUT will become the first and ­central collaboration partner in the planned Nokia Innovation Centre Tampere, Finland. Due to open in...

The NEC Corp. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs to found a mobile WiMAX research centre in Taiwan. The Multimedia E2E R&D Centre will be established in Taipei during 2007 as part of the M-Taiwan project being lead by the Taiwanese...

The Russian national standards body, the Russian Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology, has signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials. The goals of the MoU are to remove technical barriers in economic and trade...