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Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Herley New England division in Woburn, MA, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $1.6 M from a major US Prime contractor to supply a number of multi-function integrated microwave assemblies (IMA) for a US Navy Electronic Attack Aircraft. Richard F. Poirier,...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Virginia-based subsidiary, Comtech AeroAstro Inc. , has been awarded a $37.9 M contract from the United States Navy's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop and deliver the spacecraft bus for the Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS) mission by March 2012. This contract is...

From CTIA WIRELESS 2010®, Anritsu Co. and Verizon Wireless announced that Verizon Wireless has selected Anritsu’s BTS Master™ handheld base station analyzer to test the Long Term Evolution (LTE) network being deployed by Verizon Wireless throughout the United States. Verizon Wireless field engineers and technicians are using the BTS...

Rogers Corp. and its Advanced Circuit Materials (ACM) Division earned a distinguished DesignCon Paper Award at last month’s DesignCon 2010 Conference and Exhibition in Santa Clara, CA. The paper, “Effect of Conductor Profile on the Insertion Loss, Phase Constant, and Dispersion in Thin High-Frequency Transmission Lines,” was co-authored by...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced it is teaming with Ember Corp. to introduce ZigBee® front-end modules (FEM) for smart grid applications that give utilities and consumers more control over how they monitor...

San-tron Inc. , a manufacturer of RF coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, has announced the launch of S292 Connectors, a new series of 2.92 mm connectors that operate through K-band. Initiating a design standardized to a Thunderline-Z TL-150 glass-to-metal feed-through, San-tron has developed a transitional RF geometry that greatly...

Aeroflex introduced the ALT-8000, the world’s first RF-based portable radio altimeter flightline test set. The ALT-8000 is a lightweight universal test set for 4.3 GHz frequency modulated continuous carrier wave (FMCW) radio altimeters and pulse radio altimeters with a large 12-inch color touch screen for ease of use. The...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, introduced the industry’s first suite of high performance broadband synthesizers spanning ultra wide frequency ranges from 375 MHz to 5.6 GHz. Skyworks’ new device, which is designed to...

TECOM Industries Inc. announced that its customer, Row 44, a provider of airborne broadband connectivity, will install TECOM Industries’ KuStream™ 1000 antenna system on Southwest Airlines’ commercial fleet. In January 2010, Southwest Airlines announced plans to equip more than 500 aircraft with Row 44’s In-flight Broadband Connectivity System. The...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a plug-in module for its industry-leading 86100C digital communications analyzer (DCA) that allows engineers to simultaneously test multiple optical signals. Simultaneous analysis of multiple optical signals provides two key benefits. First, testing several single-lane devices in parallel can dramatically reduce the effective cost of transceiver...