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Indra will refurbish and extend the air space surveillance network that controls Turkey’s air traffic. The contract, worth €38.5 M, was awarded by Turkey’s State Airport Authority (DHMI) and is to be concluded within three years. The new network will be equipped with 18 Mode S Secondary Surveillance radars...

The IEEE and Accellera announced that the IEEE has approved a new standard, IEEE 1801™, "Standard for Design and Verification of Low Power Integrated Circuits." The standard is also known as Unified Power Format (UPF) 2.0. UPF, first developed by Accellera, and currently supported by multiple vendors and is...

Micronetics Inc. announced it has acquired the pedestal and forklift mounted radio frequency identification (RFID) product line of M/A-COM RFID Inc. , an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Cobham plc. RFID is a wireless identification technology that is being adopted by certain leading commercial retailers and the Department of...

Murata Electronics North America , an innovator in electronics and a global supplier of ceramic passive components, introduced the GJ8 series of multilayer monolithic ceramic chip capacitors (MLCC) designed to lower acoustic noise in consumer and industrial electronic applications by up to 30 decibels (dB) in the 1 µF...

Symmetricom® Inc. , a leader in precise time and frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment and enable the management of next generation networks, announced its latest time code displays, the TCD-2 and the TCD-4. Designed to synchronize to time code signals and clearly show the time or date from...

Aeroflex has announced an agreement with Icom Inc. to provide automated test and alignment capabilities for Icom radios on the Aeroflex 3920 Digital Radio Test Set. Initial test capabilities will be focused on the IC-F9010/F9510 APCO Project 25 Conventional and Trunked Radios and the IC-F4029SDR Series dPMR Portable Digital...

Paratek announced that the company has completed a transaction involving the purchase by Paratek of Gennum ’s barium strontium titanate (BST) technology group and its associated assets. Paratek has developed a proprietary form of BST, ParaScan™, as the leading RF tuning component technology for mobile handsets. The transaction augments...

Communications & Power Industries Inc. (CPI) has been awarded approximately $3.1 M by Sierra Nevada Corp. to supply integrated microwave assemblies and transmitters for use in the US Navy's AN/APN-245 Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS) Beacon. CPI, a subsidiary of CPI International Inc. (CPII), is a provider of microwave,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a strategic partnership with ASTER Technologies to enable integration of ASTER's TestWay Coverage Analyst with Agilent's printed circuit board assembly test platforms, enabling seamless test coverage analysis across test platforms. The TestWay Coverage Analyst provides a push-button test coverage analysis tool for coverage estimation (pre-test...