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Harris Corp. has received a follow-on $10.7 M order from the US Navy for 23 shipboard terminals that will provide personnel onboard frigates, access to the Internet, video and other high-speed, broadband services. These capabilities will help sailors stay better connected to their families and allow them to easily...

Satellite-based communications, with their broad coverage areas, allow geographically dispersed users to exchange information quickly and efficiently. Higher bandwidth availability and networking requirements in Military Satellite Communications (MilSatCom) create new opportunities for advanced electronic components. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, "MilSatcom Electronic Market Trends through...

Northrop Grumman Corp. technicians have begun installing the first set of hardware for a B-2 stealth bomber upgrade that will eventually allow the jet to send and receive battlefield information up to 100 times faster than its current satellite communications system. The work is being done as part of...

The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions supporting energy management in residential, commercial and consumer electronics applications, has announced its intention to expand its participation in the European Union's various standardization efforts. The Alliance will focus on the European Union's Smart Grid programs and on...

The UK Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, has asked the Technology Strategy Board to guide the development of a network of technology and innovation centres that will help deliver the industries and jobs of the future. The Board has been tasked to work with industry, stakeholders, and wider government including...

Mentor Graphics Corp. and STMicroelectronics have entered into a broad-scoped collaboration to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node. The three-year joint-development project, named DeCADE, seeks to build on advanced design solutions for System On Chip (SoC) development for digital and analogue...

The Saudi Telecom Co. (STC), the main telecommunications carrier in Saudi Arabia, has tasked Alcatel-Lucent to conduct an end-to-end Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial, to begin in the second half of 2010. This trial will enable STC to test the performance of LTE-based services and assess the related business...

Peregrine Semiconductor and IBM have teamed up to develop and manufacture future generations of Peregrine's patented UltraCMOS™ silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process technology. When fully qualified, the next-generation UltraCMOS RF ICs will be manufactured by IBM for Peregrine in the jointly-developed 180-nanometer RF CMOS process at IBM's 200 mm semiconductor manufacturing...

Thanks to rapid growth in the high-end server, notebook, mobile handset and wired communication segments, the GaN power management semiconductor market is expected to reach $183.6 M in revenue by 2013, up from virtually nil in 2010, according to iSuppli Corp. GaN is an emerging process technology for power...

According to In-Stat, the cellular industry has been a battle ground between different communication technology standards driven by regional and industry politics, and Super 3G/4G appears no different. However, the industry appears to be narrowing down to just three standards: LTE, WiMAX and XGP. Despite the differences in the...