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Enhanced Wireless Network Simulator Software This wireless network simulator (WNS) software enhances the functions of the MD8470A signaling tester — a base station simulator for mobile terminal application software development and verification. It establishes interactive operation between the MD8470A and a W-CDMA or GSM/GPRS mobile terminal and simplifies the...

Industry News Radiall has bought New Haven, CT-based Applied Engineering Products Inc. (AEP). The newly acquired company ranks among the largest of the independent designers and manufacturers of the subminiature coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, used in high reliability radio and microwave frequency applications. Their products are sold primarily...

Harris Corp. announced that it has been awarded a $35 M contract modification by the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade the voice communications displays used by the nation’s air traffic controllers as part of the existing Voice Switching and Control System (VSCS) contract that the company was awarded in...

XTAR LLC announced that it has been awarded a contract with the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office (DTS-PO), Fairfax, VA, to provide X-band communications services to embassies and consulates in Africa and Asia. The five-year contract has an estimated maximum value of up to $137...

The Air Force announced that Lockheed Martin has been selected to continue development of the Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology, known as ISAT. The contract, valued at $19.5 M, is for the next phase of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) ISAT project, administrated by the Air...

A Northrop Grumman-developed system that provides joint coalition forces with a clear, continuous common operating picture of the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan has been honored as the “Best Program in Support of Coalition Operations.” The Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2)-Blue Force Tracking System and its...

A new era in global meteorological forecasting has begun with the launch of the first of five EADS Astrium state-of-the-art microwave humidity sounder (MHS) instruments on board the US polar orbiting satellite NOAA-N. The contract was awarded by EUMETSAT and the microwave sounders will form part of the instrument...

A new contract valued at $4.4 M has been awarded to Harris Corp. to supply TRuepoint microwave digital radios to Vmobile Nigeria. The contract represents an expansion of an existing long-term relationship between the two companies, through which Harris provides a ‘super-highway’ microwave radio backbone covering more than 1,500...

e2v technologies has been selected to supply narrowband CW klystrons for use in Cornell University’s prototype energy-recovery linear accelerator (ERL), a new and advanced synchrotron radiation machine. The klystrons will aid the university with its research into building future machines for unprecedented materials science and bio-molecular structure analysis. The...

e2v technologies has been selected to supply narrowband CW klystrons for use in Cornell University’s prototype energy-recovery linear accelerator (ERL), a new and advanced synchrotron radiation machine. The klystrons will aid the university with its research into building future machines for unprecedented materials science and bio-molecular structure analysis. The...