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Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Micro Systems Inc. subsidiary in Fort Walton Beach, FL, has been awarded $3 M in contracts to accomplish changes to its aerial target ground control stations and airborne avionics for a US Navy customer. The contracts require a change in operating frequency and...
Twenty-ten, what was that all about? Throughout much of this year, forecasters puzzled over the direction of the economy. Was it heading for a double-dip recession or on its way to being stuck in a jobless recovery for the next decade? Elsewhere, a few optimists claimed to see the...
A vast amount of activity is occurring on a global basis to upgrade electrical power grids to make the delivery of electricity more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly and cost effective. This includes a wide variety of equipment and technology within the generation, transmission, distribution and metering portions of the...
To meet the ever-increasing demands of next generation wireless infrastructure, fiber optics and advanced military systems markets, WIN Semiconductors Corp. has developed an ultra-high performance 0.1 µm GaAs PHEMT technology. This device platform, named PP10, is produced on 150 mm GaAs wafers in WIN Semiconductor’s state-of-the-art wafer foundry located...
ViaSat Inc. has successfully demonstrated full-mesh satellite communications at Ka-band between an Australian Army deployable 1.0 m Compact Transmit Receive Suite (CTRS) terminal located at the Defense Science and Technology Organization (DSTO) and a 48 cm communication-on-the-move (COTM) terminal located at BAE Systems Australia, using a ViaSat LinkWayS2™ MF-TDMA...
Lockheed Martin received a $230,000 US Air Force contract to define requirements for a weapon that uses high-power microwave energy beams instead of explosives to take out enemy electronic systems. The Non-Kinetic Counter Electronics Capability (NKCE) contract will lead to a new type of weapon that will destroy electronic...
The Raytheon team has successfully completed a key design review of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Advanced Control Segment (OCX), signaling the team’s readiness to proceed with the next development phase of the program. Nearly 70 representatives from the government, aerospace and System Engineering and Integration, a contractor for...
Improvised explosive devices (IED) have been brutally effective weapons for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, and increasingly, in other parts of the world. IEDs have been blamed for thousands of deaths of military personnel and also civilians. The US and its allies have responded to the IED threat by...
TriQuint Semiconductor , a leading RF products manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced that it has been awarded a Defense Production Act Title III gallium nitride (GaN) manufacturing development contract by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The overall goal of the contract is to increase yield, lower...
Applied Radar Inc. recently delivered a 64-Channel Analog RF Receiver Unit (ARRU-64™) to the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. The system development was funded through an AFRL Phase-3 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract managed by AFRL at Hanscom AFB, MA, and the hardware...
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