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XTAR LLC announced that it has been awarded a contract with the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office (DTS-PO), Fairfax, VA, to provide X-band communications services to embassies and consulates in Africa and Asia. The five-year contract has an estimated maximum value of up to $137...

The Air Force announced that Lockheed Martin has been selected to continue development of the Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology, known as ISAT. The contract, valued at $19.5 M, is for the next phase of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) ISAT project, administrated by the Air...

A Northrop Grumman-developed system that provides joint coalition forces with a clear, continuous common operating picture of the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan has been honored as the “Best Program in Support of Coalition Operations.” The Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2)-Blue Force Tracking System and its...

A new era in global meteorological forecasting has begun with the launch of the first of five EADS Astrium state-of-the-art microwave humidity sounder (MHS) instruments on board the US polar orbiting satellite NOAA-N. The contract was awarded by EUMETSAT and the microwave sounders will form part of the instrument...

A new contract valued at $4.4 M has been awarded to Harris Corp. to supply TRuepoint microwave digital radios to Vmobile Nigeria. The contract represents an expansion of an existing long-term relationship between the two companies, through which Harris provides a ‘super-highway’ microwave radio backbone covering more than 1,500...

e2v technologies has been selected to supply narrowband CW klystrons for use in Cornell University’s prototype energy-recovery linear accelerator (ERL), a new and advanced synchrotron radiation machine. The klystrons will aid the university with its research into building future machines for unprecedented materials science and bio-molecular structure analysis. The...

e2v technologies has been selected to supply narrowband CW klystrons for use in Cornell University’s prototype energy-recovery linear accelerator (ERL), a new and advanced synchrotron radiation machine. The klystrons will aid the university with its research into building future machines for unprecedented materials science and bio-molecular structure analysis. The...

Iridium Satellite LLC has appointed Cambridge Consultants as a strategic wireless technology development consultant, charged with helping the company to evolve the design of its ground-based terminal equipment. The consultancy has assembled a multi-disciplinary engineering team with expertise in satellite communications to work on the multi-million dollar program. Specifically,...

A significant European strategic alliance has been agreed between Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A. (HAI), the largest defence company in Greece operating in the field of aerospace, electronic and satellite communication systems, and INDRA Espacio SA, the leading defence electronics and information systems company in Spain. This co-operation is the...

Brazil’s wireless broadband market is being addressed with the launch by Motorola of a new version of its Canopy portfolio, authorized for sale by Anatel, the National Telecommunications Agency, in the 5.4 GHz band. In point-to-multipoint networks, Canopy’s Advantage 5.4 GHz solution offers aggregate data transmission rates up to...