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Thales-Raytheon Systems announced that the US Army will procure 56 Improved Sentinel Battlefield Air Defense AN/MPQ-64 Radars. Thales-Raytheon Systems has already delivered more than 220 radars to customers worldwide. The company is working with several allied nations to leverage the current production to meet their sensing requirements. The AN/MPQ-64...

The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has announced the formation of £50 M Global Research and Technology Hub that will connect UK researchers and businesses working to commercialise the Nobel Prize winning super strong material graphene. The UK's Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts said, "One year...

Those who attended the Opening Session at European Microwave Week 2011 in October witnessed first-hand Professor Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, Nobel Laureate 2010, deliver a presentation titled, Graphene: Materials in the Flatland. He outlined the material's discovery and the properties that make it a promising candidate for future electronic...

Interference prevention and mitigation are to be addressed in the Asia-Pacific region through closer collaboration between national, regional and global satellite industry groups. The quality-assurance plans were announced during an Interference-Prevention Summit co-organised by the Interference Reduction Group (IRG), Global VSAT Forum (GVF) and Indonesian Satellite Industry Association (ASSI)...

A public–private partnership (PPP) contract signed with Astrium means that the European Space Agency (ESA) is moving ahead with an independent, European satellite system that will speed up the transmission of large quantities of data beginning in 2014. The PPP for the European Data Relay System (EDRS) demonstrates ESA's...

The ZigBee® Alliance and Energy@home will cooperate on the creation of an integrated residential energy services platform for Europe by leveraging four ZigBee standards. Under a liaison agreement, the groups will focus on blending the strengths of ZigBee Home Automation™, ZigBee Smart Energy™, ZigBee Telecom Services™ and ZigBee Gateway™...

The cellular M2M embedded module market experienced a more difficult than expected year in 2010, according to ABI Research. Although total unit volumes continued to rise, reaching nearly 34 million units shipped in 2010, total industry revenue fell from roughly $996 M in 2009 to about $841 M in...

Strategy Analytics has just published a new report examining the state of the base station component market, Radio Access Network RF Power Device Trends & Forecast: 2011 – 2015. This latest Strategy Analytics report provides an in-depth view of the current market for RF components in BTS, the most...

The world economy may be teetering on the brink of a double-dip recession, but business is booming for wireless infrastructure vendors. According to Jake Saunders, Vice President of Forecasting for ABI Research, "Base station installations in 2011 will total at least 10 percent more than anyone expected just one...

A pioneering new broadband wireless technology is now on display in Baltimore, providing 50+ Mbps downstream capability. Go Long Wireless has launched the Baltimore MVDDS pilot to demonstrate how this new "wireless FTTH" broadband option can bring both a next generation triple play bundle to consumers and robust mission-critical...