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The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Co. a $304 M contract to develop advanced tracking and discrimination capabilities for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) forward-based AN/TPY-2- radar. Under the contract, Raytheon is responsible for the development and test of radar software, various engineering tasks, maintenance and support,...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a $218 M Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the US Marine Corps for its next generation, JTRS-approved Falcon® III Tactical radios. Under the contract, the company received two orders totaling $158 M. Harris was chosen...

NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, has established a Reference Design Centre (RDC) with the aim of facilitating deployment and adoption of RFID technology. Based near Graz, Austria, the RDC improves the performance and reliability of existing RFID systems by thoroughly testing applications under real life...

The newly inaugurated Alcatel-Lucent University Egypt is the company’s first certified university in the Middle East and Africa and the 20 th certified training centre within Alcatel-Lucent’s global education network. Based in Cairo, the university’s mission is to deploy learning and qualification solutions that will enable customers and employees...

Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics, semiconductor suppliers to the automotive industry, have made significant progress in the areas of automotive IP development, flash technology alignment and new product definition. Since announcing their joint design initiative last year, the automotive units from both companies have focused product development efforts on a...

picoChip has joined the Femto Forum, which supports and promotes femtocell deployment worldwide by bringing together the foremost femtocell equipment vendors with the major global mobile operators assessing the technology. The Forum is a not-for-profit membership organisation aimed at promoting the uptake of femtocell technologies through open standards, market...

The WiMAX Forum“ has selected Bureau Veritas’s Advance Data Technology Corp. (ADT) in Taiwan as the first Asian certification test lab of both fixed and mobile WiMAX certification services. WiMAX is a technology that provides an alternative to cable/DSL for the ‘last mile’ as well as mobile or personal...

Just a little over a year ago, most people thought the United States would only see deployments of fixed WiMAX in rural areas with no DSL or cable modem service. During the summer of 2006, however, those who did not see the bigger picture got a reality check. In...

E-wallet phones, GPS phones and related services are gaining traction today in the Japanese mobile phone market, reports In-Stat. Mobile TV phones are expected to gain favor as well, once there is a good revenue-generating business case, the high tech market research firm says. A trend-setting market, Japan provides...

Global markets for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will experience smooth and solid growth trajectory in coming years, according to a new ABI Research study. The compound annual growth rate during the forecast period between 2006 and 2012 is expected to reach 31 percent. Although cellular M2M module shipment numbers...