Articles by Microwave Journal

Product Catalog This product catalog features the company’s advanced antenna systems. It highlights new products including the Phased Beamer;™ modular phased array panels, Edge-of-Space Gateway;™ SatCom antenna system with orbital down conversion and UniScan Direct;™ and a real time airport security RF imaging scanner, all based on the company’s...

InGaP HBT/pHEMT Process This proprietary, patent-pending, commercial process integrates heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT) with pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMT) on a single indium gallium phosphide (InGaP) gallium arsenide (GaAs) die. The process enables several new wireless power amplifier products including integration of power amplifiers and RF switches on...

Ben Trivelli Applied Engineering Products (AEP) has announced the loss of Ben Trivelli , president and founder of the company. Ben, who had been ill for some time, died unexpectedly on April 4th from complications related to that illness. Ben was born in Staten Island, NY, on April 25,...

Advanced Antenna Systems This completely revamped Web site features the company’s next generation advanced antenna systems. The site provides focus on areas of greater interest to its customers and easier navigation to the various pieces of information. This site offers a basic introduction to the company’s antenna design development...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has formed a team to compete for the prime role at the US Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Joint National Integration Center (JNIC). With a decade of experience supporting the JNIC, Northrop Grumman is well positioned to partner with the government and other missile defense companies to...

Lockheed Martin has achieved a major milestone with the completion and delivery of a sophisticated, high performance communications subsystem integral to the infrared payload of the first Space-based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite. SBIRS High, the nation’s next-generation missile warning system and a critical element...

Raytheon Co.’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) has been awarded a three-year, $26.9 M Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract with a potential award value of $59.4 M if all program options are exercised. The program will optimize and refine the use of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors for use...

Raytheon Co. has received a $200 M contract from the US Air Force for continued production of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air missile (AMRAAM). The contract, originally announced by the Department of Defense on December 22, 2004, includes 434 AMRAAMs. “This contract award demonstrates a continued resolve to insure...

The IEEE has approved work to begin on an amendment to the IEEE 802.11™ standard for wireless local area networks (WLAN). The project under development involves a wireless LAN standard amendment for WLAN devices to support protection of management frames. IEEE P802.11w, “Amendment to Standard for Information Technology –...

According to In-Stat, the enterprise WLAN equipment market is at an interesting crossroads. While Symbol and a variety of start-up vendors have pioneered an overlay “WLAN switch” architecture for centralized management of so-called “thin APs,” they are now being increasingly challenged in the market by large Ethernet switch vendors,...