MWJ Staff

The US Air Force has awarded a risk reduction study contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Radar Modernization program. The study will be performed under Northrop Grumman’s existing Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Radar (MP-RTIP) program. The $5.8 M study...

Raytheon Co. components played key roles in the destruction of a ballistic missile target during the latest flight test of the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. This was the eighth intercept for the GMD system. During the December 5 test, a Raytheon-built Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) intercepted...

Lockheed Martin has teamed with ITT Corp., Morgan Hill, CA, to compete for the US Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 2 Upgrade (SEWIP BLK2). This program will lay the groundwork for the upcoming competition for the Navy’s next-generation electronic warfare system. In at-sea demonstrations this summer, the...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, called for the adoption of software-defined, multiband, multimission radios as a principal solution for interoperable public safety communications among first responders. During a presentation titled “Enabling First-Responder Interoperability through Multiband, Software Defined Radios,” Kevin Kane, director of business development for...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK government have signed an agreement in principle to develop an ESA research centre at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus (HSIC) in Oxfordshire, UK. The aim is for the research centre to be up and running within a year. Keith Mason,...

Cambridge Broadband Networks Ltd. is the first backhaul-focused technology vendor to join the Next Generation Mobile Network Alliance (NGMN). The NGMN is a group of world leading operators such as AT&T, China Mobile, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone as well as technology vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia...

STMicroelectronics has become the first European company to join the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG) industry consortium at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Group is an exclusive industry consortium that was founded in the 1980s to support Microsystems Technology Laboratories infrastructure and provide direction to...

Following a major review the Technology Strategy Board—an executive non-departmental public body established by the UK Government in 2007—is to refocus the work of its Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN). The aim of the networks is bring together interested parties from business, universities and research organisations to stimulate innovation through...

A new page in the modern history of aeronautical standardization has been written by ETSI members and ETSI partner organization EUROCAE, with the adoption of a new European Standard on Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS). It is seen as a significant step towards the completion of...