MWJ Staff

European Microwave Week 2009 has said Arrivederci Roma after the event was staged in the Eternal City for the very first time. From 28 September to 2 October all roads led to Nuova Fiera di Roma, which was home to the Week’s four conferences — the 39th European Microwave...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new LTE baseband exploration library for the SystemVue 2009 design platform. The library (version W1912) provides full source-code access to PHY golden reference algorithms that are consistent with the 3GPP LTE March 2009 standard. Agilent’s new LTE library provides key advances for 3GPP LTE...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, announced it has received certification from the National Security Agency (NSA) for the Harris RF-310M-HH, the world’s first tactical radio to utilize new encryption technology designed to simplify the enabling of communications interoperability within multinational coalitions. Harris and NSA collaborated...

The US Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command has awarded SRCTec a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with an approximate value of $700 M for Counter Remote Control Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (CREW) Duke V2 system upgrades. The CREW Duke counters radio-controlled roadside bombs, or IEDs, and...

Raytheon Co. was awarded a $151 M contract by the US Navy’s NATO Sea-Sparrow program office to produce 186 Evolved Sea-Sparrow Missiles, with an option for $210.3 M to produce an additional 255 missiles. The agreement will also provide NSPO consortium member navies with spare parts and missile containers....

Herley Industries Inc. announced that through a subsidiary, it has been awarded a $16.6 M firm-fixed-price, time and material, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for Radio Frequency (RF) Modules. As required, repair services and engineering and technical support services will also be performed. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China...

EgyptAir has selected Rockwell Collins avionics for five A330 aircraft with an option for three additional aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled from August 2010 through 2012. The agreement includes Rockwell Collins MultiscanTM Hazard Detection System, TTR-2100 Traffic Avoidance System, as well as a full communications, navigation and surveillance suite including...

The economic downturn is likely to cause a slowdown in North American and European in-building wireless (IBW) deployments during 2009-10. ABI Research sees flat growth in those regions for ‘09-10; however, typical 20 to 25 percent annual growth is expected to return by 2013. Buoyed by constant high growth...

The recession contributed to 2008 having the slowest total global broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) market growth this decade of 2.4 percent (to 154M units), according to market research firm, In-Stat. 2009 will be even slower. However, cable gateways, wireless and VoIP routers, and wireless and VoIP DSL CPE...

Wi-Fi seems to be all-pervasive, and in the year 2011 alone, Wi-Fi chipset vendors will ship one billion units, according to market data just released by ABI Research. By the end of the following year a cumulative five billion such chipsets will have shipped since the firm began tracking...