Aerospace and Defense Channel - Technical Articles, Product Innovations, Resources & Technologies

RSS

Thales Alenia Space has been selected by the European Space Agency for one of the three phase B1 studies of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillation of stars program, part of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-25.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, millimeter wave and photonic products, introduced a high linearity 4 W power amplifier, ideally suited for Ka-Band high data density satellite communications.

Gowanda Electronics recently achieved qualification to the military’s MIL-PRF-83446 specification for its MLRF0603 and MLRF0805 series of RF surface mount wirewound coil, ceramic core chip inductors with tin/lead terminations. 

Mercury Systems Inc., a leading high-tech commercial provider of more affordable secure and sensor processing subsystems powering today's critical defense and intelligence applications, announced it received a $4.3 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for high performance signal processing subsystems for a ship-borne radar application.

Raytheon's AESA radar system exceeds expectations in flight test.

Mercury Systems, Inc., a leading high-tech commercial provider of more affordable secure and sensor processing subsystems powering today’s critical defense and intelligence applications, announced it received a $2.3 million order from a leading defense prime contractor for high-performance digital signal processing modules for use in a signals intelligence (SIGINT) application.

On December 31, 2014 COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has completed the purchase of 100 percent of MESL Microwave Ltd. for £12.8 million.

Northrop Grumman's APG-83 SABR was competitively selected by Lockheed Martin for the F-16 radar modernization program to support U.S. and Taiwan Air Force F-16 upgrade programs. Within 16 months of the contract award, the company successfully completed all design reviews and delivered the first engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) radar to Lockheed Martin. 

L-3 Telemetry-West (L-3 TW) announced that it has received the first order for its brand-new Ka-Band satellite command receiver from Mitsubishi Electric Corp.