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picoChip claims to be the first baseband company to support the newly announced Femto Forum LTE application programming interfaces (API). The new APIs help developers of LTE femtocells integrate subsystems from different suppliers, reducing integration cost and time and accelerating development of femtocells and other ‘small cell’ base stations,...

Harris Corp. and ITT Corp. are collaborating to accelerate the fielding of the Soldier Radio Waveform, a central piece of the US Department of Defense vision for a networked digital battlefield. Harris and ITT have successfully exchanged voice and data between the Harris Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G manpack and ITT's...

Improvised explosive devices (IED) have been brutally effective weapons for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, and increasingly, in other parts of the world. IEDs have been blamed for thousands of deaths of military personnel and also civilians. The US and its allies have responded to the IED threat by...

US Army ’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate has awarded SRC Inc. , formerly Syracuse Research Corp., a $500,000 phase one development contract for an Omni-Directional Weapon Location (OWL) radar system. Under the terms of this contract, SRC will perform a preliminary design of the OWL radar system. The...

TASC Inc. has been awarded a 10-year contract worth up to $827.8 M for National Airspace System (NAS) support services that will enable the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to accomplish a smooth and successful transition to Next Generation (NextGen), a satellite-based network that will replace the US radar-based air...

Paradigm Services , part of Astrium Services’ Telecoms division, has entered into a 15-year contract with Telesat , the world’s fourth largest fixed satellite services operator, for the full X-band payload on Telesat’s Anik G1 satellite. Demand for X-band services from civil and military agencies around the world is...

Alcatel-Lucent has opened a new regional delivery center (RDC) in Bangalore, India, intended to provide services to manage, operate and maintain multi-vendor fixed and mobile telecommunications networks based in India or anywhere around the world. This is the first center of its kind for the company in the Asia...

Provigent , a provider of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission market, announced the development of a 4G backhaul SoC solution for microwave systems. The new solution will enable wireless backhaul systems to support the demanding requirements of 4G backhaul networks. Provigent’s new SoC will enable point-to-point...

Crane Aerospace & Electronics , Power Solutions, was awarded by the US Department of Defense, a $7.9 M contract for repair, upgrade and new manufacture of high-voltage power supplies and high-voltage distribution units for the AN/SLQ-32(V) electronic warfare system. Under the contract, Power Solutions will work closely with the...