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Agilent Technologies Inc. and Varian Inc. announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Agilent of Varian, a worldwide supplier of scientific instrumentation and associated consumables for life science and applied market applications. Agilent will pay $52 cash per share of common stock for Varian...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded $44 M in orders to provide JTRS-approved Falcon III AN/PRC-152(C) handheld radios and accessories to the US Air Force. The radios will support the changing communication needs of the entire Air Force enterprise, including Security Forces, Special...

Raytheon Co. received a $9.9 M contract to perform concept studies for the US Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR). This radar suite will consist of an S-band radar; X-band radar; and radar suite controller. The system will be scalable to meet the Navy’s current and future mission...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and a provider of commercial satellites, announced that it has been selected to provide a satellite for Telesat, one of the world’s leading fixed satellite services operators. The new satellite, called Telstar 14R, will replace Telesat’s Telstar 14/Estrela do...

Raytheon Co. and the US Army recently completed successful testing of the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency, or AEHF, satellite communications production terminals. Raytheon’s Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal (SMART-T) offers the next generation of protected communications with AEHF satellites. It is the first AEHF system across the...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Herley New England division in Woburn, MA has received an award valued at approximately $16.4 M from a major US prime contractor to manufacture a variety of multi-function integrated microwave assemblies (IMA) for a US Navy electronic attack aircraft. Richard F. Poirier, CEO...

While markets for RF power amplifiers continue their slow decline in developed regions, two new developments—the massive wireless infrastructure rollout in China and the approaching wave of LTE deployments in the West—will provide a temporary lift over the next few years, according to the latest ABI Research forecasts. The...

Euroconsult announced that growth in the fixed satellite market has remained strong despite the adverse economic environment. According to Euroconsult’s soon-to-be released report “Satellite Communications & Broadcasting Markets Survey, Forecasts to 2018,” the fixed satellite sector grew in terms of both transponder demand (+9 percent) and overall revenues (+10.7...

Semiconductor revenue for WiMAX microcells, picocells and femtocells is on course to a 46 percent compound annual growth rate from 2008 to 2013. The segment will pass $1 B by 2013, reports In-Stat. Cellular femtocell semiconductors will be another growth segment for chip vendors. Worldwide cellular femtocell semiconductor revenue...

“Antennas for Mobile Devices: New Technologies, New Opportunities,” from the Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Component market research service, explores new antenna technologies and the companies helping to avert an impending crisis in cellphone antennas. Christopher Taylor, Director of the RF and Wireless Components service and author of the...