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To accelerate product and market development, NMDG NV , a provider of ‘next-generation characterization and analysis tools’ for the high-frequency electronics and communication market, has secured a meaningful amount of venture capital funding. In 2006, the Belgian company was able to strengthen its position through the R&D industrial project,...

Specialty Coating Systems Inc. has completed its acquisition of Parylene Japan K.K. (PJKK). PJKK, which is a joint venture between SCS and Three Bond Co. Ltd., was established in 1990 to provide world class Parylene conformal coating services and technologies in Japan. Sole ownership of PJKK enables SCS to...

COM DEV International Ltd. , a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, announced that it has been selected as prime contractor in an open bid process to provide a communication payload test system for Orbital Sciences Corp. . The system will perform automated RF testing on communication satellite payloads, a...

Elcoteq SE , an integrated electronics manufacturing services company with original design manufacturing capabilities in the communications technology field, has become the global manufacturing partner for Telsima, a developer of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access and DCME voice compression solutions. The company, which provides box build manufacturing for WiMAX CPEs,...

Among the various kinds of wireless communication systems, wireless LAN (WLAN) is the most popular for short-range communications, due to its high data rate. For low cost and low power implementation of a WLAN terminal, a fully integrated CMOS RF transceiver is required for which a low- or zero-IF...

Ultra-wide band (UWB) antennas are used in several applications, ranging from GPR prospecting, wireless communications, to detection for safety and non-destructive diagnostic sensing 1-2 . In particular, with regard to the specific issue of non-destructive microwave sensing, the availability of a larger band implies that it is possible to...

This project was started in order to develop a device that could detect concealed guns on people to protect police officers by allowing them to frisk a suspect at a distance. The original concept was to have the unit in a handheld, battery operated package. Other applications included the...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has successfully completed a program of simulations, demonstrations and tests designed to provide the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program with low programmatic and technical risk. Northrop Grumman’s BAMS Head Start Program successfully completed four system-level simulations as hosted on a prototype mission control system and...

Harris Corp. unveiled the Harris Border Security Shelter, a system that links information and communications technologies used to detect illegal border crossing or other threats to national security. The shelter’s advanced technologies can help increase the flow of information and speed response times to potential threats. The Border Security...

Raytheon Technical Services Co. (RTSC) LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Co., has been awarded a five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to support the Department of Defense (DoD)’s counter-narcoterrorism activities. This multiple contractor award has an estimated ceiling value of $15 B. The scope of work across all task...