Articles by Microwave Journal

The Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , Germany, has announced a wide-ranging partnership with ARC International that expands Fraunhofer's use of configurable processors to further the development and commercialization of consumer products based on Digital Video Broadcast-handheld (DVB-H) technology. The Digital Video Broadcasting Project is an industry-led consortium of...

Taconic , Petersburgh, NY, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site of its new manufacturing facility in Cheonan, Korea. The company could not have asked for a nicer day as company CEO Andrew Russell kicked off events with sincere congratulations to everyone involved. Awards for outstanding performance were then handed out...

EMS Wireless , a division of EMS Technologies Inc., announced that it has shipped more than $80 M in orders for its products from January through the first week of December 2005. That represents almost double the orders shipped during all of 2004. "This is the first time in...

On 1 December Avago Technologies started operations as the world's largest privately held independent semiconductor company. Its creation follows the completion of the acquisition of Agilent Technologies Inc. 's Semiconductor Products Group by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners in a $2.66 B transaction, which...

Alcatel has been awarded a new GSM mobile network expansion and modernization contract by Paktel Ltd. , the Pakistani incumbent owned by Millicom International Cellular (MIC). The multi-million Euro contract will be executed over three phases covering the four provinces of the country, building a network with around 1,400...

The EADS SPACE group of companies has acquired Dutch Space BV , the largest space company in The Netherlands and a leading international space industry supplier. This transaction confirms EADS' leading role in the European space business as it now integrates space industry in five European countries. Dutch Space,...

Summitek Instruments Inc. , a manufacturer of software products designed to automate spectrum management as well as S-parameter measurements, announced a new partnership agreement with TestMart Inc. TestMart, a marketplace operator and service provider for the test and measurement industry, will provide government marketplace services to better serve Summitek's...

Royal Philips Electronics of The Netherlands and NEC Corp. of Japan have signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture in enterprise communications, by NEC taking a majority share in Philips' Business Communications unit (PBC). The new company will be named NEC Philips Unified Solutions...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has successfully demonstrated the capabilities of an advanced high power amplifier for the US Army that is capable of enabling critical communications for the network-centric Future Force. Army Future Force concepts include information superiority and improved situational understanding through the integration of data from joint forces....

The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System successfully detected and tracked an unarmed US Air Force Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Aegis detected the missile when it rose above the horizon and immediately began BMD tracking operations. Lockheed Martin develops the Aegis BMD Weapon System for the...