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On "Conferences and Exhibitions" Usually we reserve the technical sessions at [various conferences] for assessing what the new ideas are and where the technology is going. I believe it is equally important to find out at least two more things, the first is whether the new ideas can be...

Early in the first chapter of his microwave textbook, my former undergraduate professor Dr. Peter Rizzi introduced me and my fellow classmates to some of the anomalies in this field of study by making comparisons to its low frequency and optical counterparts. Along with the electrical impact of skin...

As the financial crisis hit home and governments across the world worked to stave off rising budget deficits, defense departments also had to take a long hard look at expenditure, forcing resizing, postponement or cancellation of major projects. The impact of these decisions started to hit the defense industry...

The US Army of Tomorrow I just attended the Association of the US Army (AUSA) Meeting in Ft Lauderdale, FL, and listened as all the US Army leadership--including the Chief of Staff, General Casey, the Vice Chief, General Chiarelli, and Undersecretary of the Army Mr. Westphal--were very forthright and...

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In the development of next-generation radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems, typical test scenarios include simulations such as low-observable signals mixed with ground clutter and environmental interferers. Addressing these demanding scenarios requires an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) or signal-scenario generator (SSG) that has two key attributes. The first is...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (M/A-COM Tech) has extended its position in high power semiconductors with the introduction of its first family of Gallium Nitride (GaN) RF power transistors. This new family of products targets S-band radar pulsed applications and leverages M/A-COM Tech's heritage of providing both standard and custom...

Applied Radar Inc. has been awarded a Phase 2 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop a “Wideband Subarray Digital Receiver/Exciter (DREX).” This contract builds upon Applied Radar’s on-going work with the MDA on radar receiver/exciter technology, and greatly expands the...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $107 M US Air Force contract to further the design of the Space Fence system. Under this contract, Raytheon will deliver a preliminary design and test a functional radar prototype to ensure cost and schedule certainty and technical maturity of the final design...

SRC Inc., formerly Syracuse Research Corp., recently received two contract awards with a total potential value of up to $12.3 M for its Foliage Penetrating, Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Tracking and Engagement Radar (FORESTER), a revolutionary airborne radar system that penetrates through foliage to track people and vehicles on the ground....