Articles by Microwave Journal

Harris Corp. has been awarded a competitive procurement contract to supply the US Marine Corps’ Multiband, Multimission Radio (MBMMR) Standardization Program with its combat-proven Falcon“ II AN/117(C) radios. The first delivery orders of $67 M have been awarded as part of a multi-year $205 M blanket purchase agreement. Deliveries...

Members of the Great Lakes Chapter of Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) and the Chicago Public Schools-Education to Careers (CPS-ETC) Program reaffirmed their success and commitment to a program that has brought hands-on knowledge of electronic manufacturing into the classrooms of Chicago students eager for real-world experience and education....

Members of the Great Lakes Chapter of Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) and the Chicago Public Schools-Education to Careers (CPS-ETC) Program reaffirmed their success and commitment to a program that has brought hands-on knowledge of electronic manufacturing into the classrooms of Chicago students eager for real-world experience and education....

In early supply chain RFID deployments, the information flowing back to suppliers has been fragmented and limited. But the recent joint announcement by Target and Wal-Mart that they will share EPC data gathered from their RFID systems with 13 manufacturers who supply them with consumer packaged goods (CPG) marks...

Seemingly, not a day goes by and another governmental organization is announcing plans to build a wireless mesh network. The value of these networks is clear — communities can cost effectively provide high speed wireless voice and data communication services to their employees, residents and visitors. The challenges associated...

Harris Corp. announced it has successfully completed multiple field demonstrations of a satellite antenna feed prototype that is capable of supporting selectable antenna polarization for orthogonal transmit and receive operations. The feed prototype achieved user data rates reaching an astounding 105 Mbps — more than 12 times the current...

Northrop Grumman, working closely with Raytheon Co., has reached three milestones in a program to modernize the B-2 stealth bomber’s radar system with an advanced, more reliable antenna. These achievements represent significant progress towards initial flight testing of the radar. Recently, the B-2 radar-modernization team passed a final design...

Raytheon Co. is helping transform US war fighting capabilities by delivering a short-range millimeter-wave directed energy non-lethal weapon to the Department of Defense’s Full Spectrum Effects Platform (FSEP) program — also known as Project Sheriff — for the Office of Force Transformation (OFT). OFT, in partnership with the US...

Forward Concepts has announced the publication of an in-depth study of the WLAN and WiMAX equipment and chip markets. The new report, “Beyond Wi-Fi: 802.11n, VoWi and WiMAX,” provides a comprehensive analysis of worldwide equipment and chip markets. The report also profiles the ODMs, OEMs and chip vendors serving...

Asia may become the largest regional mobile telecommunications market in the world over the next five to ten years, reports In-Stat. In 2004, there were nearly 740 million mobile users in Asia (including Japan, Australia and New Zealand) with total revenue of roughly $180 B, the high tech market...