Articles by MWJ Staff

Lockheed Martin Integrated Common Electronics Warfare System (ICEWS)—a single enterprise solution designed to scale across all ship classes in the US Navy’s surface fleet—performed successfully during a series of just-completed demonstrations conducted by the Navy. The at-sea demonstration of ICEWS, held beginning in June, followed recent land-based testing and...

Raytheon Co.’s Surface Launched Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) successfully completed system field integration testing at White Sands Missile Range, NM, demonstrating interoperability with both Patriot an Avenger weapon systems. “Successful integration testing will help put this much-needed air defense capability into our warfighter’s hand,” said Pete Franklin, vice...

STMicroelectronics (headquartered in Switzerland), STATS ChipPAC (Singapore) and Infineon Technologies AG (Germany) have signed an agreement to jointly develop the next-generation of embedded Wafer-Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB) technology, based on Infineon’s first-generation technology, for use in manufacturing future-generation semiconductor packages. ST and Infineon, two of the world’s leading...

The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has earmarked £236.5 M for investment to develop large-scale research facilities and projects in its science portfolio. The investment, which was announced by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), is being made available through the UK Government’s Large Facilities...

EADS Defence & Security (DS) will modernize the identification systems of the German Armed Forces and of NATO’s early warning aircraft in order to meet the latest air traffic control standards and to increase safety in air traffic. Defence Electronics (DE), an integrated activity of DS, has been awarded...

In a contract worth £100 M, the UK Ministry of Defence has selected the Advanced Radar Target Indication Situational Awareness and Navigation (ARTISAN) 3D radar to provide the next generation of medium range radars (MRR) for the majority of the current Royal Navy (RN) surface fleet and for the...

Nokia and Qualcomm have entered into a new agreement covering various standards, including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and other technologies. Under the terms of the new 15-year agreement, Nokia has been granted a license under all Qualcomm’s patents for use in Nokia’s mobile devices and...

RF & Wireless Technologies: Know it All Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier 846 pages; $55.95, £29.99 ISBN: 978-0-7506-8581-8 Few areas of technology are as dynamic and fast-growing as RF and wireless. Recent years have seen myriad new technologies and devices introduced, with many more on the way. Keeping fully...

The “smart metering” that communicates electric, gas or water usage data over a network to the providing utility is making inroads in some markets, but a further evolution of these technologies into “Home Area Networks” (HAN) will allow utilities greater management efficiencies while providing customers with choices about their...

Microwave and millimeter-wave high power vacuum electron devices (VED) represent a modern technological continuation of one of the original and basic building blocks of RF electronics technology. Based on original vacuum tube principles that date from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, these present-day incarnations couple modern...