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Harris Corp. has received a $9.4 M order from the US Air Force for additional Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio systems. The Air Force is acquiring the AN/PRC-117G in support of emerging applications in situational awareness, intelligence and analysis and real-time battlefield collaboration. The field-proven AN/PRC-117G will provide...

Toshiba Imaging Systems Division , a supplier of high definition camera technolgy for industrial, machine vision, diagnostics, military, microscopy, R&D and broadcast applications, announced the appointment of Gary Pitre to the position of National Sales Manager. Pitre has served as the Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Toshiba America Information...

L-com Inc. , a global leader in the manufacture of wired and wireless connectivity products, has partnered with Bertek Import e Com. Ltda. from Vitoria, Brazil, a division of Stile Comercial, a trading company. The partnership allows L-com greater distribution of both wireless and wired products in Brazil. “We...

Custom MMIC has been awarded its second Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the United States Army to develop millimeter-wave, high linearity, high power amplifiers on Gallium Nitride (GaN) for satellite communication systems (SATCOM). “We are excited to be working with the...

China Mobile Research Institute and SkyCross announced a demonstration of a tunable, MIMO antenna design for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments around the globe. The world’s first compact, tunable MIMO antenna covers 12 frequency bands ranging from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz for TD LTE/LTE FDD/TD SCDMA/GSM EDGE/WCDMA...

RF Micro Devices Inc. unveiled the highly integrated RF6555 ZigBee® front-end module (FEM). The RF6555 is RFMD's newest ZigBee FEM and is optimized for smart energy/advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) applications providing utilities and consumers more control over how they monitor and save energy. ZigBee is a global low power...

GigOptix Inc. , a supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, announced that at a special Endwave Corp. stockholders meeting, the stockholders voted to approve the acquisition of Endwave by GigOptix Inc. At the meeting, holders of more than 55 percent of the outstanding...

Vislink plc , a global technology business specialising in secure communications products and services for the news and entertainment and law enforcement and public safety markets, announced that on 2nd June 2011 it acquired the entire issued share capital of Gigawave Ltd. for a cash consideration of 3.75 M...

API Technologies Corp. , a provider of electronic systems, subsystems, RF, and secure systems for defense, aerospace, and commercial applications, announced that it was awarded a contract valued at $2.5 M USD to provide secure communications equipment to a UK Government user for use in static and mobile environments....