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Industry News Agilent Technologies Inc . announced it has acquired certain assets of Signametrics , a manufacturer of PXI, VXI, PCI and USB digital multimeters (DMM), and modular switching products. These test and measurement products are commonly used in manufacturing production and automotive test systems. The acquisition expands Agilent's...

The rapid expansion of mobile radio networks has required network operators to increase mobile radio antennas and base stations, often under strict time and cost constraints. The new R&S ZVH handheld analyzer from Rohde & Schwarz was designed especially to meet such demands. Two frequency ranges, from 100 kHz...

The Mini-Circuits ZHL-100W-GAN+ is a 20 to 500 MHz, 100 W coaxial high power GaN amplifier featuring high efficiency and high IP2/IP3. It utilizes a high power GaN output stage, which offers higher efficiency (50 percent typical) than its GaAs, LDMOS and VDMOS counterparts. The ZHL-100W-GAN+ is an unconditionally...

Small Antennas: Miniaturization Techniques & Applications provides up-to-date methods on the theory and design of small antennas, including an extensive survey of small antenna literature published over the past several years. Antennas have always been difficult to miniaturize, but recent developments in novel materials, either natural or synthetic (metamaterials),...

Radar And Antennas Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 5 LTE (3 words) 7 Hybridization of FEM and IE solvers 9 Short for multi-input, multi-output 14 MoM (3 words) 15 Short for signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio 16 A signal processing technique used in sensor arrays for directional signal transmission or reception 17 3G...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has received orders from the US Marine Corps totaling $21 M for additional Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radios, vehicular amplifier adapters and other accessories. The Marine Corps will acquire the systems as part of its accelerating transition to high-speed,...

Lockheed Martin announced that the Lockheed Martin-Raytheon team competing for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract has received the final request for proposal from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA). MDA issued the request for proposal December 2, with a submission due date of January 28....

The US Navy awarded Raytheon Co. $240 M for production and delivery of critical components of the Aegis weapons system for the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers. Under the contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will provide production, engineering and support services for four ship sets of the AN/SPY-1D(V)...

Ministers in charge of space activities representing the Member States of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union who convened in Brussels for the Seventh Space Council unanimously endorsed a resolution that called for the necessary actions to deliver a space strategy that would enable economic growth,...

The number of LTE connections in Asia Pacific will exceed 120 million by 2015, according to the latest data released by Wireless Intelligence. This aggressive growth will be spearheaded by China with the country expected to account for nearly half (57.9 million) of the total number of LTE connections...