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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology Inc. , received an order valued in excess of $2.5 M for state-of-the-art 500 W Ka-band high power amplifiers supporting the emerging high-throughput satellite market. These 500 W amplifiers feature high linear power and are operational...

Lockheed Martin announced that it has received a $106 M engineering, manufacturing and development contract from Northrop Grumman Corp. to develop the next-generation Reentry Field Support Equipment (RFSE) for the US Air Force’s Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. Under the 58-month contract awarded in July, Lockheed Martin...

Do you feel underpaid and deserving of a higher salary? Are you thinking about asking for a raise, but unsure how to go about it? Do you cringe at the thought of approaching your boss? In this article, adapted from Chapter 24 of my new Wiley-IEEE Press book, The...

NDK (Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co. Ltd.) announced the opening of a new sales engineering and customer support office in California. NDK America-Silicon Valley is located at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Suite 202, Milpitas, CA 95035. The company can be reached by phone at (408) 428-0800, fax (408) 428-0801 or e-mail...

Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT), a business unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, and a digital microwave technology provider, has won an order from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The commonwealth’s Office of Administration, Public Safety Radio, has issued a purchase order applying funding from the federal Public Safety Interoperable...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the N6784A 4-quadrant general-purpose source measure unit (SMU), the newest member of the N6700 Modular Power System family. The N6784A SMU offers advanced sourcing and measurement capabilities in four quadrants, required for many general-purpose electronic test applications. “General-purpose applications span a large number of industries...

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. has introduced a new, lighter-weight RG coaxial cable for aircraft communication and navigation systems, providing significant weight savings without compromising performance. When compared to standard RG coaxial cables, these new cables reduce operating costs because they are as much as 20 percent lighter with...

Anaren Inc. announced that Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas (EMA), a business region of Avnet Inc., will now carry Anaren’s new family of Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules in the Americas. “We’re very excited to offer our new AIR module line to Avnet’s extensive customer base,” said Mark Bowyer, the...

Passive Plus Inc. now offers an Extended Working Voltage capability for the company's core Hi Q/low ESR Capacitor line Available in 6 case sizes: .055" x.055" extended up to 300 W VDC; .110" x .110" extended up to 1,000 W VDC; .225"x.225" extended up to 5,000 W VDC; .390"...