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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $35.8 M contract by the US Navy to design and produce antenna buoy systems that will significantly expand the communications capabilities of submarines while they are submerged. The Navy’s Communications at Speed and Depth (CSD) program will use expendable submarine and air-launched communications...

Harris Corp.’s new Highband Networking Radio™ (HNR) provided interoperable, long-range backbone communications for stationary, on-the-move and airborne platforms, including the Boeing A160T “Hummingbird” Unmanned Aerial System, at the US Army’s C4ISR On-the-Move Event at Fort Dix, NJ. The radio was co-developed with BAE Systems. The event was held last...

The INTERoperable Embedded Systems Tool chain for Enhanced rapid Design, prototyping and code generation (INTERESTED) project has been launched. This new initiative is funded under the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme. INTERESTED is focused on the creation of the first-ever European-wide, integrated and open reference tool chain covering the...

The Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance has launched the Initial Terminal Device Definition (ITDD) document, which provides the generic definitions required for next generation devices and demonstrates the Alliance’s commitment to providing support across the entire next generation marketplace including devices and networks. A major objective of the...

C4 Advanced Solutions (C4AS), a wholly own-ed subsidiary of the Emirates Advanced Investments group, and EADS Defence & Security (DS) have created a joint venture company in Abu Dhabi to develop and market high-tech solutions in the field of defence and security applications. This joint venture company will open...

North African operator, Wana, has selected Cambridge Broadband Networks’ VectaStar Next Generation point-to-multipoint microwave backhaul solution to increase the performance of its backhaul network and support the introduction of mobile broadband services in Morocco. The backhaul solution provides operators with investment protection by enabling them to build cost-effective backhaul...

Thales Alenia Space España has won a €3.8 M contract from the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management of the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development and qualification of an avionics kit to provide Launcher Telemetry Acquisition via Satellite (LTAS). This kit will be used on future missions...

The current global economic slump will be felt broadly across all semiconductor end-use market segments, reports In-Stat. This slump is unlike the 2001 downturn that was demand-driven and more strongly felt in some segments than in others. “The automotive segment is expected to experience a 22.7 percent revenue decline...

Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has “backed off” from WiMAX; these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an...

No one can deny that green and clean agendas are rising to the surface in the mobile communications market. ABI Research forecasts that in 2009 over 800,000 base stations will utilize alternative energy solutions such as wind or solar energy, and that nearly 70 million mobile devices will be...