Microwave Journal

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $7.6 M engineering and manufacturing development contract to supply anti-jam Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to the Air Force’s C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP). Boeing Integrated Defense Systems selected the Raytheon digital anti-jam receiver (DAR) to provide C-130 airlift and special mission aircraft...

Total R&D expenditures in the US are expected to increase about 2.5 percent from the $283.8 B spent in 2003 to nearly $291 B in 2004, according to Battelle– R&D Magazine’s annual funding forecast. Government funding of scientific research and development will see the largest increase, while industrial support...

Northrop Grumman Co. has assembled a best-of-industry team to compete to develop the Space-based Radar (SBR) system. SBR is a transformational program designed to bring global, persistent surveillance to military and intelligence community users. The system will be an integral component of the nation’s future integrated intelligence, surveillance and...

Tough competition and the battle for network supremacy are two drivers that will push the market for in-building cellular networks north of $1 B by the end of the decade, according to a new study by research firm ABI. However, limiting further growth in this market are two other...

The enterprise IP-PBX market has moved well beyond the days of protracted testing in enterprise IT labs, and into substantial numbers of user deployments. While businesses are still not likely to upgrade their legacy systems to IP-based systems, nearly all new developments have some degree of IP components. More...

As supply-chain-based RFID tags, readers, software and electronic product code (EPC) guidelines rapidly adapt to meet large retailer mandates, tying together the increasingly complex solutions becomes a larger challenge. Larger hardware and software spends require heavy reader, software and system integration service investments. To date, integration has been a...

Software Defined Radio Architectures, Systems and Functions M. Dillinger, K. Madani and N. Alonistioti, Eds. John Wiley & Sons Inc. 456 pages; $155, £85 ISBN: 0-470-85164-3 For a software defined radio (SDR) system to be useful as an adaptable future-proof solution and to cover both existing and emerging standards,...

NEW WAVES: TEST, MEASUREMENT AND CAD EM-based Componen and Circuit Design Software This version 6.2 of LINMIC is a microwave/ RF IC design suite that has revised the active device modeling for ease of use and for parameter extraction including detailed control of model quality. Aside of lumped device...

Industry News PCTEL Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of MAXRAD Inc. , a manufacturer of wireless communications antennas for broadband wireless, in-building wireless and land mobile radio applications. PCTEL acquired all of the shares of MAXRAD, a privately held company, for $20 M. MAXRAD generated approximately...

Ultra-precision Service This company’s Web site offers a complete ultra-precision service for grinding, lapping, polishing, diamond sawing, laser machining and sizing a wide variety of metals (ferrous and non-ferrous). The company also offers carbide, ceramic, sapphire and other materials for industrial and scientific applications in the telecommunications, semiconductor, communications,...