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A surprising number of our associates found their way to Seattle, WA, this year and were rewarded with an unexpectedly upbeat IMS 2002. This year's Microwave Week was blessed with unusually good weather and an attendance that came close to last year's record in Phoenix. Just over 11,000 attendees...

Deregulation and privatization has created unprecedented competition in the worldwide telecommunication market. This climate of increased competition has meant that service providers must introduce new, more sophisticated and user-friendly services at an accelerated pace, while not compromising traditional telecommunications service quality. These needs have prompted many telecommunications service providers...

With nearly 7000 exhibitors in 27 buildings clustered on a site the size of 65 football fields, Hannover Fair 2002 offered something for nearly everyone - from factory automation and process technologies, to material handling and energy management. One of the newest display categories of this year was the...

In-Stat/MDR has completed its analysis of the WLAN market's performance during the first quarter. The main themes from the results include the following: · Embedded WLAN in notebook PCs is finally taking hold in the business space. Notebooks with embedded Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) finally hit the market in noticeable...

Raytheon Co. was awarded a $78 M US Navy contract for a second Low Rate Initial Production (LIRP) of the ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod, the latest generation in targeting technology. The company's Air Combat and Strike Systems business unit is responsible for ATFLIR. "We are...

Signal Technology Corp. announced the receipt of two contracts awards for the production of highly sophisticated electronics designed for the federal government's emerging Homeland Security Initiative. Signal Technology's UHF/VHF and video antenna switch matrix products were selected to provide multi-path signal frequency steering by a contractor developing wireless communications...

Harris Corp. announced that it has been selected by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Littleton, CO, to lead the communication portion of the Core Information System (CIS) Integrated Product Team for the 15 months Component Advanced Development Phase of the US Army's Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) program. ACS is...

Essex Corp., a developer of optoelectronic processors and technology for signal processing applications, announced that the US Department of Defense (DoD), Naval Air Warfare Center, has awarded the company a five-year IDIQ (indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity) contract with a potential value of $25 M. This contract was competitively procured...

Northrop Grumman Corp. Systems Development and Technology Division has been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate innovative concepts for lightweight, space-based, deployable radar antennas designed to address the tactical tracking of ground moving targets. "The focus of the effort is to analyze...

The European Space Agency has awarded the multi-national Galileo Industries joint venture the first development contract for the European Galileo satellite navigation system. Building on Galileo Industries' earlier successes during the programme's definition phase, the new €10-20 million ($9.8-19.6 M) award covers the development of the first version of...