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The Boeing Co. and industry partner Northrop Grumman Corp. submitted their joint proposal for the competitive development and sustainment contract for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic missile defense system. “This development and sustainment contract proposal is backed by the full...

Raytheon Co. has delivered its 250th APG-79 active electronically scanned array radar to Boeing. The APG-79 radar is flown on US Navy F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft, and on the Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Super Hornet. “As we recognize this milestone of the 250 th APG-79 AESA delivery, it...

Hughes Network Systems LLC, a leader in broadband satellite technologies and services, and a provider of managed network services, announced it was awarded a $495,000 contract by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct an architectural study of commercial communications satellite (COCOMSAT) systems capabilities. The report, which will...

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Mercedes-Benz are leading a project to create the transport system of the future, in which cars communicate with each other, receive real-time information about traffic, and also gather and forward information. A test area is currently being built in Tampere, Finland, that...

EADS and the Skolkovo Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on research collaboration that underlines the intention of EADS to participate in the Russia-based Skolkovo Innovation Centre. Dubbed ‘Russia’s Silicon Valley,’ the Centre is a high technology business hub that is being built in the Moscow region....

Thales Alenia Space has created a separately owned German subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space Deutschland GmbH, located in the Stuttgart area. This strategic move demonstrates the company’s intention to play a growing role in Germany, a country committed to strongly supporting European institutional and national R&D space programmes. The opening...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote regional and international standardization, with the aim of contributing to the establishment of a global information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure. The agreement formalizes an...

RFID Item-level Tagging (ILT) is being deployed very rapidly in apparel and footwear markets. Item-level passive UHF tags now make up an increasing share of the total world market for RFID tags. ABI Research forecasts that more than three quarters of a billion RFID tags will be used in...

There’s no question that in the long term LTE will become the mainstay 4G network technology, although its universal use is still in the future. Until then, says ABI Research, some service providers will benefit from a dual-platform strategy based on both LTE and WiMAX. According to Research Director...

Smartphone markets are on a roll. Shipments grew from 177 million in 2009 to 302 million in 2010, a remarkable 71 percent growth rate. Meanwhile, handset OEMs’ market shares have fluctuated widely; Nokia’s dropped from 39 to 33 percent, even as the collective share held by manufacturers of Android-based...