MWJ Staff

Shipments of Wi-Fi-enabled cellular handsets will double in volume by the end of 2010, compared to January 2008, and that growth curve is expected to continue through 2013. This data, contained in a new ABI Research study, shows how driven by increasing consumer awareness and demand, new operator business...

Industry News AWR , a leader in high frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced it has acquired Simulation Technology and Applied Research Inc. (STAAR), Mequon, WI, a developer of 3D parallelized FEM tools for EM simulation of components and subsystems operating at RF and microwave frequencies. STAAR is now...

Test Solutions Aeroflex.com has been completely redesigned to be more user-friendly and easily accessible. The new site utilizes several convenient new features including a streamlined corporate home page and Aeroflex Test Solutions page, a product locator feature that makes finding products a snap and an integrated Google™ search engine....

New Waves: Test and Measurement LTE Receiver Measurements Agilent announces LTE Receiver Measurements as a software upgrade to its proven drive test platform, protecting customers’ previous investments in receiver hardware and offering multiple tests that accelerate deployment of LTE networks. Network equipment manufacturers and wireless service providers can use...

FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications Yang Hao and Raj Mittra Master powerful new modeling tools that enable one to quantify and represent metamaterial properties with high accuracy. This first-of-its-kind book brings one up to speed on breakthrough finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) techniques for modeling metamaterial characteristics and behaviors...

Raytheon Co. has successfully completed two significant milestones for the US Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System Control Segment, or GPS OCX, establishing a solid foundation and roadmap to keep the program on track and on schedule. “These mark major accomplishments for our entire team and significantly burn-down the...

Lockheed Martin has received contracts totaling $774 M from the US Army Aviation and Missile Command for hardware and services associated with the combat-proven Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile program. These contracts include Fiscal Year 2009 missile production for the US Army as well as the first sale of...

Northrop Grumman Corp.’s advanced fire control products played a key role in the most challenging test to-date of the nation’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, the nation’s only defense against long-range ballistic missiles. In the system’s first intercept test using multiple sensors (past tests have used only one sensor)...

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK’s primary knowledge-based networks for micro and nanotechnologies, has announced its support for one of the largest funding rounds that has been made available to the sector. A combined total of at least €250 M in co-funded grants is available...

Indra has been awarded a €3.9 M contract to provide the French Ministry of Defence with 25 mobile tactical SATCOM systems, which will be connected to the Syracuse III satellite network for communications. The network allows solid and safe communication between France and forces deployed across the planet. One...