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The defense of the United States against potential missile threats is closer to fruition, thanks to the efforts of the 850 th Electronic Systems Group’s Upgraded Early Warning Radar Program Office, which is charged with incorporating missile defense into existing Air Force early warning radars. “We will have a...

Raytheon Co.’s Excalibur precision-guided 155 mm artillery round has passed its final testing hurdle for fielding with the successful completion of a so-called Limited User Test in February at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ. Pending additional system-level certification, Excalibur will be fielded to US Army and Canadian field artillery units....

Harris Corp. has delivered the first 12 of 39 Large Aperture Multiband Deployable Antenna (LAMDA) terminals to be used by the US Marine Corps and US Air Force for multiband, mobile satellite communications. The order for 39 LAMDA terminals is part of a $42 M contract awarded to Harris...

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed an agreement, which strengthens the framework for cooperation between the two organisations in the field of maritime monitoring and surveillance. In particular, EMSA will be supported by ESA on issues relating to the development of...

tbp Electronics B.V. has signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Alcatel-Lucent in Belgium to buy its manufacturing activities at Geel, with the agreement expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2007. A new company—tbp Electronics Belgium—will be formed. The terms of the MoU include the...

Commissioned by Alcatel Alenia Space, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has designed and constructed the RF Suitcase satellite testing system for ESA’s Herschel/Planck mission. The purpose of the RF Suitcase is to demonstrate the RF compatibility between spacecraft and ground stations prior to launch and to test the...

C-MAC MicroTechnology, a world leader in high reliability electronic systems, modules and components for the aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical and communications markets, has been selected as a partner in the MEMS Application for Defence (MEAD) consortium, led by QinetiQ. The consortium will develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology for the...

The Estonian government has signed the contract for the new Estonian Air Defence System—the Very Short Range Air Defence Missile System (VSHORADMS). Following fierce competition between leading European and US defence companies the contract, valued at around €60 M, was awarded to MBDA and Saab. The VSHORADMS is based...

Strategy Analytics analysts, speaking at the plenary sessions of both the IEEE CSIC Symposium and the Power Amplifier Symposium, reaffirmed that GaAs technologies will continue to dominate the radio front-end in cellular handsets, despite competition from silicon technologies. The move toward 3G and beyond, coupled with the need to...

Those who remember the night of December 2, 1984, when water accidentally entered a methylisocyanate storage tank at a Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, will understand the importance of monitoring industrial processes. Gauges measuring the temperature and pressure were known to be unreliable, so staff ignored early signs...