Articles by Microwave Journal

Now celebrating its 32nd edition, RF & Hyper Europe 2006 will, for the first time, be organized by Exposium's Industry, Commerce & Technologies department that has taken over from BIRP. Growth, especially on the international front, is expected for the event, which will showcase the technological innovations of some...

Sirenza Microdevices Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire Premier Devices Inc. (PDI) for a combination of common stock, cash and debt valued at approximately $72.1 M. PDI designs, manufactures and markets complementary RF components featuring technologies common to existing and planned Sirenza products. With this acquisition, Sirenza, a...

DesignAdvance™ Systems Inc. , an electronic design automation (EDA) and computer aided design (CAD) design-synthesis software developer, announced that it has completed a $3 M second round of funding and has graduated from The Technology Collaborative's Jumpstart program. "We have a field proven solution for PCB design and are...

Harris Corp. unveiled an advanced sensor system product line that offers remote, unattended intrusion detection and surveillance capabilities ideally suited to the defense of military installations and perimeters, as well as for the protection of borders and other assets associated with homeland defense. The Harris Falcon Watch™ Remote Intrusion...

The US Air force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a five-year, $532 M contract for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) System Improvement Program to provide system design and development improvements to the E-8C Joint STARS fleet. The contract covers the engineering, design, development, integration, test...

Development of an airborne radar that can search broadly for ground targets while transmitting data about them at Ka-band is the objective of the Affordable Adaptive Conformal ESA Radar (AACER) program awarded to Raytheon by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). Raytheon was selected to proceed with Phase...

A Raytheon Co.-produced Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) destroyed a ballistic missile target outside the earth atmosphere during a Missile Defense Agency/Aegis Ballistic Defense (BMD) Program flight test over the Pacific Ocean. It was the sixth successful intercept for the Aegis BMD program using the SM-3. The November 17 mission was...

The Enhanced Wireless Consortium indicated last month that its proposals for the draft 802.11n standard are now substantially aligned with the work of the IEEE’s working group. This is good news for most of the stakeholders in the process. ABI Research has reported on this process before, most notably...

Alcatel announced it has signed a subcontract with M/A-COM Inc., a leader in critical communications technologies, to equip the State of New York with an advanced public safety communications network to enhance communications interoperability among public safety first responders. The Statewide Wireless Network, for which M/A-COM will act as...