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NASA awards Tahoe RF contract to develop miniaturized beam-steerable GPS receiver front end

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD awarded a SBIR Phase II program to Tahoe RF Semiconductor Inc. for developing a miniaturized radiation hardened beam-steerable GPS receiver front end for NASA spacecrafts. This product is designed to improve the signal sensitivity by 10 dB to 25 dB-Hz and improve performance against multipath interferences.


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Aerospace and Defense Upgrading is Big Business

As Defense budgets around the world have been squeezed and with few new platforms in production, A&D companies are looking to upgrade current equipment as a major market opportunity.  These upgrades are friendly to military budgets as they provide improved capabilities at much lower costs than new platforms.  They also provide new capabilities much faster than developing new platforms that take years to design and produce.
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X-COM Systems releases v3.0 of RF Editor Graphical RF Signal Editor software

X-COM Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Bird Technologies, introduced version 3.0 of its RF Editor Graphical RF Editor software, the industry's most advanced tool for modifying and building custom RF signal waveform files for use in defense, commercial, and system verification applications. RF Editor Version 3.0 is more intuitive, faster, and adds useful features that expand its capabilities.


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