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Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $151.3 M contract from the US Army Aviation and Missile Command to provide engineering services support to the Patriot air and missile defense program. The award to Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) provides funding for the first of four, one-year options, to last...

Lockheed Martin announced that it has delivered the first modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, where it will be readied for a May launch. The satellite, designated GPS IIR-M1, is the most technically advanced GPS satellite ever developed and will provide significantly...

The Air Force’s fleet of E-8C aircraft will receive updated air-traffic management systems under a $103 M, three-year system design and development contract recently awarded by the Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, MA, to Northrop Grumman Corp. The avionics of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack...

QinetiQ and its partners AMS and Roke Manor Research have begun work on the Advanced Radar Technology Integrated System Test-bed (ARTIST). This £8.1 M UK contract is to build a research demonstrator system and assess techniques to support the next generation of maritime multifunction radar (MFR). The 44-month programme...

Smiths Group plc is expanding the range of technologies offered by its Detection division, with the acquisition of Farran Technology Ltd. The company, which is based in Cork, Republic of Ireland, is owned by its local founders, its management and two Irish venture capital funds. Smiths is acquiring the...

Alcatel and Intel Corp. have announced that both companies have expanded their strategic alliance on WiMAX, entering into a new joint development agreement. Both companies have committed to work closely together to expedite the delivery of end-to-end residential, nomadic and ultimately mobile WiMAX solutions based on the IEEE 802.16e...

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is set to expand its R&D efforts by establishing a new research laboratory with Thales Technology Centre Singapore and Thales Research & Technology (France). Known as Thales@NTU, the laboratory will harness science and technology to develop dual-use technologies that are applicable to both...

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is set to expand its R&D efforts by establishing a new research laboratory with Thales Technology Centre Singapore and Thales Research & Technology (France). Known as Thales@NTU, the laboratory will harness science and technology to develop dual-use technologies that are applicable to both...

In response to the growing Asian market, 7 layers, an international engineering group for the wireless communications industry, is establishing a new test and service centre in South Korea. The new laboratory will open at the beginning of May 2005 and will be located in Kangnam-Gu, Seoul, under the...

Precision test cable assemblies that provide low loss and high performance at 110 GHz are hard to come by. Now add the requirement for true flexibility and they become even more difficult to obtain. Gore, a producer of precision microwave cable and cable assemblies, has now introduced the GORE™...