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Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Electronic Warfare Simulation Technology (EWsT Ltd.) subsidiary in Farnborough, UK, has been awarded two significant contracts from international customers. The first of these is a $3 M contract for a large and complex configuration of the company’s modular RSS 8000 radar simulator. The...

Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and Cellular South announced their collaboration to build and deploy a fourth generation (4G) mobile broadband network using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. The agreement also calls for Samsung Mobile to design and launch two LTE-enabled smartphone handsets available in 2011 in Cellular South’s 700...

San-tron Inc. , a manufacturer of RF coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, has completely redesigned its website, www.santron.com , to offer clients, representatives and engineers the opportunity to search San-tron’s extensive product inventory and knowledge base. The streamlined San-tron website navigation has been intuitively reorganized, making it easy to...

Rogers Corp. announced that it has signed an agreement with PolyWorks Corp. of North Smithfield, RI, to license PolyWorks’ technology for molding Rogers’ industry-leading high performance foam brand, PORON microcellular polyurethanes, into three-dimensional shapes. The agreement, finalized on November 2, 2010, stems from a multi-year joint development effort to...

Demonstrating its key role in helping drive the most advanced 3G and 4G mobile devices, ANADIGICS Inc. announced that its power amplifiers have been selected by Samsung for their highly anticipated GALAXY Tab product. ANADIGICS’ AWC6323 power amplifier (PA) is used in the Samsung GALAXY Tab offered by Sprint...

Narda , an L-3 Communications company, introduced the model 4772-3 miniature fixed 3 dB attenuator that has flat frequency response, low VSWR and meets environmental requirements for MIL-A-3933. The attenuator measures only 1.24 x 0.38 in. and weighs 0.5 oz. It handles 2 W average and 200 W peak...

Rohde & Schwarz recently introduced the R&S®IQR digital I/Q data recorder. The recorder can record, store and replay digital RF signals loss-free and in realtime over the I/Q interface developed by Rohde & Schwarz. When used in combination with RF scanners, generators and network analyzers from Rohde & Schwarz,...

The US Department of Defense is awarding Raytheon a $52.25 M contract modification for 19 APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars to be retrofitted into F/A-18E/F aircraft, Lots 26-29. The APG-79 AESA radar, which will replace the APG-73 radar, will provide increased air-to-air detection and track range, increased...

Forward Concepts has announced the publication of its newest in-depth study of the worldwide cellphone chip market. The extensive study, “Cellular Handset Chip Markets '10,” is an in-depth analysis of virtually all the chips that go into cellphones, worldwide. The study provides dozens of detailed forecasts through 2014 by...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that two of its power amplifier modules are enabling the first commercial long term evolution (LTE) handset in the United States. Samsung’s newest 4G mobile phone, the...