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Applied Radar Inc. has been selected to receive an additional $6.4 M in new contracts from the Department of Defense (DoD), according to company CEO William H. Weedon. The new funding consists of $4.0 M in SBIR/STTR funding, through four separate contracts, from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA)...

EMS Technologies Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Satamatics Global Ltd. , a global provider of Inmarsat IsatM2M (machine-to-machine or “M2M”) services, headquartered in Tewkesbury, UK. The acquisition complements the company’s existing Iridium- and Inmarsat-based tracking solutions. EMS expects the acquisition to be accretive...

Two trends are well underway in portable and handheld consumer electronic devices: shrinking form factors and the integration of multiple wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth™, cellular, GPS and Wi-Fi. These trends create challenges for device vendors and integrators by increasing the likelihood of RF noise and other system interactions...

The recent Roke Manor sponsored November ARMMS Conference in Corby UK, attempted and succeeded in breaking new ground at a juncture that the ARMMS chairman, Roger Hopper, described as, “interesting times”. To stimulate debate and attract a wider and more inclusive audience the program coordinator, Dominic FitzPatrick of Cardiff...

Robert Bosch GmbH will be employing a chip from Infineon Technologies in its next generation of automotive radar systems. Bosch, one of the world’s largest suppliers of components for the automotive industry, has chosen a chip from Infineon’s Radar System IC (RASIC™) product family for use in its new...

We come to the final chapter in this history of Microwave Journal ’s first 50 years, a story told through five decades of articles by the industry’s business and technology leaders. This story began with entrepreneurs William Bazzy and Ted Saad founding the magazine and serving as the first...

Honeywell announced it is developing a family of business aviation radars, IntuVue, that offers flight crews the ability to detect and avoid previously unforeseen turbulence, windshears and dangerous storm activity so they can make more informed route decisions, thereby increasing passenger comfort and safety while decreasing weather-related costs due...

Continued strong growth in M2M (machine-to-machine) communications markets will see about 95 million cellular M2M modules shipping in 2013, according to ABI Research. Of shipments to the three main segments— telematics, telemetry and wireless local loop—about 34 million devices are expected to be for telematics and 39 million for...

Thales Alenia Space has announced that HISPASAT has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space España, its Spanish subsidiary, for the development and supply of the REDSAT Advanced Communication Payload for the AG1, a small GEO mission within the scope of the European Space Agency's ARTES 11 program. The...