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Rockwell Collins unveiled its new MultiScan ThreatTrack™ weather radar, which provides unprecedented atmospheric threat assessment capabilities for air transport aircraft. 

AWR Corp. has released a digital edition of its AWR Magazine that’s a culmination of news and events over the past year.  Widely distributed at major trade shows and AWR-hosted seminars, the AWR magazine is now offered online in a new interactive format that’s PC, tablet and smartphone compatible.

By end-2018, half the African population will be covered by LTE networks, as LTE base station deployment swells at a CAGR of 40% over the next five years, finds ABI Research.

The new AT549RBT cored-spring inductor from Coilcraft CPS (Critical Products & Services) features a temperature rating of -55° to +300°C, making it ideal for extreme-temperature applications such as down-hole drilling and on-engine automotive.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it is going to create a formal path forward for vehicle-to-vehicle communication for light vehicles. This means that NTHSA will start regulatory proposals on how this technology could become mandatory in the future. 

Gowanda Electronics, a designer and manufacturer of precision electronic components for radio frequency and power applications, announced that the company recently achieved military approval for four thru-hole RF inductor series: MLRF10M, MLRF15M, MLRF18M and MLRF17S. These Gowanda series meet the military’s Qualified Product List (QPL) requirement for military spec MIL-PRF-15305. 

Doodle Labs is proud to announce a very high performance embedded MIMO radio transceiver for military applications. The ACM-TB-3 is a tri-band, 3 MIMO stream wireless adapter in standard miniPCI Express form factor. The transceiver features state-of-the-art, near line of sight, self-adapting multi-rate OFDM technology and complies with the IEEE 802.11ac standard. 

Mercury Systems Inc., a best-of-breed provider of commercially developed, open sensor and Big Data processing systems for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications, announced it received an $11 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for high performance microwave subsystems for an electronic warfare application. The orders were received in Mercury’s fiscal 2014 second quarter, with deliveries currently expected to span 2015 through 2018.

Aeroflex Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp., has launched an extended version of its TM500 industry-standard base station tester capable of emulating several thousand LTE user equipments (UE), fading channel models, and LTE-A carrier aggregation functionality in a one-box benchtop unit. The TM500 Test Mobile delivers more leading edge LTE-A development capability with a higher UE density than any other solution on the market.

National Instruments announced that it is the first vendor to execute a Manufacturing Test License (MTL) agreement with Broadcom Corp. The MTL agreement authorizes NI to provide manufacturing test solutions and modifiable application source code to Broadcom® wireless LAN and Bluetooth device customers.