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Giga-tronics Inc. announced that Mark Elo has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing effective August 29, 2011. Elo comes to Giga-tronics with more than 20 years of test and measurement experience in RF and microwave instrumentation. He has held various positions at Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies and Keithley Instruments...

Comchip Technology Corp. , a leader in design and manufacture of flat chip SMD diodes, has developed a 3.3V unidirectional 4-line electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diode array that meets the immunity requirements of IEC 61000-4-2 level 4 (±20 kV air, ±15 kV contact discharge). Designated as part of the...

Pulse Electronics Corp. , a provider of electronic components, introduces its new vehicular-mount antenna for long-term evolution (LTE), 3G, 4G, WLAN, and GPS applications. The GPSDM700/2500FFS offers the best gain on the market over multiple frequency bands. Wider frequency bands (698 to 960/1710 to 2170/2300 to 2700/1575 MHz) are...

Raytheon Co.'s Network Centric Systems has combined its existing security solutions and civil communications businesses as part of a new product line to increase its focus on opportunities in public safety markets. The new product line, Security and Transportation Systems (STS), will facilitate an even stronger presence in public...

Tektronix has introduced what it calls the world's first mixed domain oscilloscope. The MDO4000 Series has a built-in spectrum analyzer. The scope captures time-correlated analog, digital and RF signals for a complete system view of devices. Both time and frequency domains can be seen in one glance. The RF...

The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) team, led by General Dynamics C4 Systems , has successfully added the highly capable Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW 1.0c) to the Rifleman Radio (AN/PRC-154) and the HMS Manpack Radio intended for use in vehicles. This places HMS...

Broadband Antenna Tracking Systems (BATS) and DragonWave Inc. , a global supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access networks, announced the successful integration of BATS’ automatic antenna aiming and tracking technology with DragonWave’s Horizon packet microwave solutions. Representing breakthrough technology, BATS’ auto-aiming and tracking system uses...

Crystek’s new CVCO55CXT-5800-5800 Coaxial Resonator Oscillator (CRO) is a coaxial-based VCO with an internal proprietary frequency doubler. The CVCO55CXT family’s frequency doubling, 2X fundamental technology reaches new performance levels of lower phase noise and much lower harmonics over the competition, while achieving lower current consumption in the process. The...

In spite of, and in several instances because of the cutbacks in defense expenditures, the avionics side of the industry is surviving almost unscathed and most parts of this segment exhibit growing markets. EW systems and radars will always be vitally important and, as well as new implementations, system...

Raytheon Co. has developed a miniaturized interrogation antenna capability to extend use of its Cooperative Target ID technology to soldiers and unmanned aircraft to help prevent fratricide. This effort builds upon an existing Raytheon antenna design and additional enhancements performed in concert with the U.S. Army CERDEC Intelligence &...