Microwave Journal

The US Missile Defense Agency announced the award of an eight-year contract for the design, development and build of the kinetic energy interceptor (KEI) missile defense system to a Northrop Grumman and Raytheon team, supported by Rockwell Collins. The KEI system is intended to provide the US with the...

The US Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin one of two industry contracts valued at approximately $20 M each to enter the next development phase of an advanced Global Positioning System, to be known as GPS III. The present awards are for the Phase A element of the program during...

The US Air Force Space and Missile Command has awarded Northrop Grumman Mission System sector a contract to define the requirements needed to build a communication network for military, intelligence and space agencies. The Transformational Communications MILSATCOM (TCM) network, which will be based on a single overarching communications architecture,...

The US Air Force has exercised the Lot 5 production contract option with Raytheon Co. to produce AGM-65H/K Maverik missile guidance and control sections. The $49.7 M option includes more than 1000 tactical guidance and control sections, 35 training guidance and control sections, and pilot and maintenance training and...

If 2003 was the year the market awakened to supply chain-based RFID, 2004 will surely be the year it readies for school. The two mandates for 2005, set by Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense (DoD), pushed RFID into the public eye, and moved it from company science...

The emergence of new standards will result in a dynamic rate of growth for Fixed Wireless Broadband (FWB), reports In-Stat/MDR. Traditionally, a lack of standards has hampered the development of FWB systems, as the proprietary nature of FWB technology kept the cost high, and limited interoperability between different vendors....

As consumer awareness of global position systems (GPS) increases, so has product innovation and total market revenue. While roughly half of the market today consists of sales of automotive and asset tracking equipment, these segments will still continue to grow at rates faster than that of the broader market...

Microwave Solid State Circuit Design Second Edition Inder Bahl and Prakash Bhartia Wiley-Interscience 906 pages; $140 ISBN: 0-471-20755-1 This is the second edition of a book that was published almost fifteen years ago. In this revision, emphasis was placed on retaining and expanding topics of current and future interest...

Manual Variable Attenuators This series of 2 W manual variable attenuators offers users a wide choice of attenuation ranges from 0 to 10 dB in 1 dB steps up to 0 to 110 dB in 1 dB steps. This series of attenuators covers a frequency range of DC to...

Industry News Elcoteq Network Corp. and Tellabs International announced that they have signed an agreement whereby Tellabs will outsource manufacturing of its international products and transfer ownership of its Espoo, Finland manufacturing operations to Elcoteq. The deal primarily involves manufacturing of Tellabs’ digital optical cross-connection products and broadband access...