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Total R&D expenditures in the US are expected to increase about 2.5 percent from the $283.8 B spent in 2003 to nearly $291 B in 2004, according to Battelle– R&D Magazine’s annual funding forecast. Government funding of scientific research and development will see the largest increase, while industrial support...

Northrop Grumman Co. has assembled a best-of-industry team to compete to develop the Space-based Radar (SBR) system. SBR is a transformational program designed to bring global, persistent surveillance to military and intelligence community users. The system will be an integral component of the nation’s future integrated intelligence, surveillance and...

Demonstrating its suitability and desirability worldwide, Ericsson’s MINI-LINK™ Traffic Node microwave transmission solution has been selected for two major projects, one in Russia and the other in New Zealand. For both contracts, the system’s deployment recognises that with the introduction of more bandwidth demanding services in mobile networks there...

It has been announced that Saab Ericsson Space AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, has won an order from satellite prime contractor Alcatel Space to supply two 1.1 m Ku-band Gregorian reflector antennas to be mounted on the earth-facing panel of the WORLDSAT-3 (WS-3) satellite. The antennas have heritage from the lightweight...

QinetiQ has reaped the rewards of its efforts by being selected, as part of a team led by EDS, to provide the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) with its ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) Testbed. The testbed will allow the MoD to experiment with a variety of...

Reliance Infocomm, a subsidiary of the Reliance Group, has chosen Alvarion of Israel, along with Siemens Public Communication Networks, India, as the suppliers of an LMDS solution for an access network that it is building throughout India. In accordance with the contract, they will take responsibility for design, supply...

EADS Astrium has awarded EMS Technologies’ Space & Technology/Atlanta Division two contracts valued at $6.1 M for key hardware on the United Kingdom’s next-generation military communications satellite system, Skynet 5. It is the first UK satellite programme to be funded through an innovative private finance initiative and is providing...

Alcatel has signed a contract for the supply of a complete solution, including GSM/GPRS/EDGE infrastructure and services, to Investcom in Cyprus. Through Scancom, the local Cypriot company owned by Investcom, the system will become operational on May 1, 2004. Under the terms of the contract, the Evolium solution will...

West technology Research Solutions LLC, a market research firm focusing solely on emerging technologies, announced the availability of the new edition of its ultra-wideband market report that includes an in-depth analysis of the two groups vying for the IEEE UWB specification. “Our analysis demonstrates that the Multiband OFDM Alliance...

Tough competition and the battle for network supremacy are two drivers that will push the market for in-building cellular networks north of $1 B by the end of the decade, according to a new study by research firm ABI. However, limiting further growth in this market are two other...