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Micronetics Inc. announced that Kevin Beals has been promoted to President and Carl Lueders has been appointed CFO. Since 2006, Beals has served as Vice President of New Business Development at Micronetics. Prior to his joining Micronetics, he served as District Sales Manager at M/A-COM Inc. During his 15...

EMRISE Corp. , a multinational manufacturer of proprietary electronic devices and communications equipment for aerospace, defense, industrial and communications applications, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Eatontown, NJ-based Advanced Control Components Inc. (ACC). ACC is a supplier of high performance RF and microwave devices and subsystems that...

Have you encountered customs agents, customers and other third parties inquiring as to whether your company is registered with the State Department? To participate in a global aerospace and defense industry, your company must maintain a compliant export control program. To export defense articles or technical data, companies must...

In late June this year, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced that fatalities from roadside bomb attacks in Iraq had dropped by nearly 90 percent over the previous year. In May of this year, improvised explosive devices (IED) claimed the lives of 11 US troops. Compared to the...

STMicroelectronics , one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers and a world leader in MEMS and power ICs, is to be the principal sponsor of the 17 th European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference & Exhibition (EMPC 2009). The company will work with the organizer, the Italian chapter of the...

Trilithic ’s RF and Microwave Components division has released a new low cost series of 2 W fixed attenuators. The XFP-6 series features a frequency range of DC to 6 GHz, with attenuation values from 1 to 40 dB. VSWR is excellent and specified at 1.25, and the attenuation...

Filtronic PLC has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Defence Electronics business to Teledyne Ltd. , a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies., for £13.0 M (on a cash free debt free basis). The Defence Electronics business designs and manufactures customized radio frequency, microwave and millimeter-wave components and subsystems for...

TDK Corp. , a leading electronics company headquartered in Japan, and EPCOS AG , a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules and systems headquartered in Germany, have signed a Business Combination Agreement (BCA). The purpose of the agreement is to combine EPCOS with TDK’s activities in the electronic components...

According to the story told in 1968 by a senior citizen of Salvan, in 1895 Guglielmo Marconi carried out some of his earliest wireless experiments in the vicinity of this picturesque village of the Swiss Alps. The IEEE duly acknowledged this event, and granted a “Historical Milestone in Electrical...

Trilithic Inc. announced that it has acquired Online Security Service, an expert provider of managed Internet security solutions based in Cooper City, FL. “With the market for managed security services at over $1 B annually – and demand on the rise – there couldn’t be a better time for...