Articles by Microwave Journal

NEC Electronics Corp. has announced that it will merge its wholly-owned subsidiary, NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices Ltd. , back into the parent company, effective April 1, 2006. NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices designs and manufactures RF and wireless semiconductors, components for fiber optic communications, optocouplers and solid-state relays. In the...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Ikanos Communications Inc. to sell its FUSIV network processor and Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) product line. The divesture is in line with ADI’s strategy of focusing its digital signal processing (DSP)...

Elcoteq has divested its German subsidiary Elcoteq Elektronik GmbH and the manufacturing plant in Überlingen, Germany, to the German company Rafi GmbH & Co. KG. The enterprise value of the divested subsidiary is approximately €6 M. The plant whose net sales in 2005 totaled approximately €25 M has a...

Gov. Mike Easley announced that Andrew Corp. , a global designer, manufacturer and supplier of communications equipment and services, will move into a new facility in Wayne County in 2006 adding 204 new jobs and retaining and relocating 232 existing jobs from the company's Smithfield facility. The project represents...

Hittite Microwave Corp. showcased a montage of new products at RWS 2006, held January 17-19, 2006, in San Diego, CA. Among the products on display included model HMC-C026, a GaAs MMIC distributed power amplifier connectorized module that is ideal for military EW/ECM, space, test equipment, wideband telecom, microwave radio...

Microwave Downconverter The model PN9276 is a 40 GHz microwave downconverter that provides the combination of high bandwidth with low noise performance. This model is designed for radar, commercial wireless, satellite terrestrial microwave links and calibration labs. This downconverter plugs into any PN9000 phase noise analyzer or PN9500 wideband...

Raytheon Co. received a $1.3 B contract modification from the US Army for system development and demonstration of the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS). Raytheon’s Integrated Defense System (IDS) JLENS provides a long-duration, wide-area cruise missile defense capability, while also providing elevated communications...

The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a contract to begin production of the next five RQ-4B Global Hawk aerial reconnaissance systems. The new $60 M contract will allow the company to start purchasing long-lead parts for the unmanned air vehicle, the enhanced integrated sensor suites for...

Harris Corp. announced that it has been awarded a six-month, $2.8 M program definition and risk reduction (PDRR) contract by the Boeing Co. for the ground processing segment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) geostationary operational environmental satellite – series R (GOES-R) program. When ready to launch...