RF & Microwave Industry News

Raytheon selected to demonstrate next generation, modular radar system

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $6 million study and demonstration contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to further develop an Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR). Raytheon's EASR concept leverages proven Radar Modular Assembly (RMA) architecture matured on Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR). EASR's flexible approach meets the performance needs of different candidate ship classes for ship self-defense, situational awareness, air traffic control, and weather monitoring.


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Frequency Matters, June 16, 2014

IMS 2014 Review

 Figure 1Watch episode15 (June 16, 2014) of the bi-weekly industry update video series, Frequency Matters. Editors David Vye and Pat Hindle review IMS 2014 in Tampa, FL including a look at the trends and collaborations they came across at the show. A short picture gallery runs at the end of the video. 


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IMS 2014 - Mergers and Collaborations Abound

IMS 2014The "Powering the Waves" theme was very present at IMS 2014 starting with the kickoff reception party on Monday featuring a water skiing show starring general chair Larry Dunleavy. Here is a short conference summary and extensive list of highlights from the exhibition by product category. 


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TI and Netas collaborate on LTE-Advanced macro base station in Turkey

Texas Instruments and Netas, a Turkish based value-added systems integration and technology services company in the fields of information and communications, announced their collaboration on an LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) macro base station for a new public safety network commissioned by the government of Turkey. Netas has selected TI's KeyStoneTM-based wireless infrastructure System-on-Chip (SoC), the TCI6638K2K, for the baseband processing in the solution, while implementing its own proprietary software.


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