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The Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Joint Undertaking, a public-private partnership in air traffic management (ATM) research and development founded by the European Commission and EUROCONTROL, has signed 16 contracts, totalling €1.9 B for the creation of Europe’s future ATM system. These contracts mark the beginning of the...

A programme of shorter Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP), which enable collaboration between business, third sector organisations and academia, has been launched by the Technology Strategy Board, the government body responsible for promoting business innovation in the UK. Building on shorter KTP schemes already being offered by Regional Development Agencies...

The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) and the National Science Foundation of China have jointly awarded a team of researchers from the University of Surrey, UK, and two other institutions a grant of around £430,000 to develop ultra-small-scale silicon structures for ‘spintronic’ semiconductors. It is hoped...

With effect from 1 August, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. and Eudyna Devices Inc. have reorganised their optical and electronic devices business by way of an absorption-type corporate split. On that date Eudyna also changed its corporate name to Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations Inc., while Excelight Communications Inc., the overseas...

Vendors of crystal oscillators are the guardians of a design and manufacturing tradition going back to the early 20th century, and some of today’s market participants trace their origins to those early days. Their products, evolved over more than 75 years, require craftsmanship and exacting fabrication skills to produce,...

The Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies (GaAs) service report, “GaAs Device Opportunities from the SATCOM/VSAT Market: 2008-2013,” concludes that long design cycles and pent-up demand driven by the consumer sector will allow the very small aperture terminals (VSAT) market to weather the current economic storm better than...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and a provider of commercial satellites, announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide two new satellites to Intelsat, a provider of fixed satellite services (FSS) worldwide. The two satellites, Intelsat-19 and Intelsat-20, will be among the...

Escape Communications Inc., a developer of signal processing solutions for wireless communication products and systems, announced completion of a Gigabit Ethernet modem for millimeter-wave wireless transmission systems. This reconfigurable single chip modem is an all-digital modem specifically designed for compatibility with the European 250 MHz channel allocations for the...

Industry News Aeroflex and w2bi (Wireless to Business Integration) announced that they have entered into an agreement to pool their test expertise and technology for the joint development of a network certification platform for LTE mobile devices. The combination of Aeroflex’s highly successful 7100 LTE test system integrated with...

Citizens increasingly expect access to Internet and wireless communications services whether they are at home, at the work desk, or on the move. Wireless connectivity is increasingly being offered to rail passengers where it is also often cited as an incentive to attract travelers to choose rail over other...