U.S. Army purchases $37 million in portable tactical generators
Mar 14, 2007
DRS Technologies has received orders valued at approximately $37 million to manufacture Tactical Quiet Generators (TQG) from the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. ...
Australia buying 24 Boeing Super Hornet fighters
Mar 14, 2007
Australia has purchased 24 Boeing Super Hornet fighter jets for 4.6 billion (U.S.), according to their defense minister, Dr. Brendan Nelson. ...
Swedish company to supply antennas for MSV satellites
Mar 14, 2007
Saab Space in Gothenburg, Sweden has received an order for hundreds of antenna elements for Boeing Space and Intelligence System's new, hi-profile Mobile Satellite Venture (MSV) system satellites.
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With a stop at 193 nm, immersion lithography is on the way to 32 nm
Mar 14, 2007
By Steve Grossman, Editor Immersion lithography is fast approaching its launch on the manufacturing floor and will probably come on board with a number of large semiconductor manufacturing companies this year. ...
GPS-guided artillery shells head to the Middle East for deployment
Mar 14, 2007
Excalibur, Global Positioning System (GPS) guided artillery shells, are on their way to Kuwait for deployment in Iraq, according to U.S. Army officials at the Picatinny Arsenal in N.J. ...
Company Provides Solutions for Army tactical communications
Mar 8, 2007
By Mark Valentine, Technical Editor, RF Design Trace Systems has been named a subcontractor for part of a larger project contract awarded to D&S Consultants, Inc. in support of the U.S. Army's Worldwide Satellite Systems program. ...
SMT MMIC mixers cover 6 GHz to 34 GHz
Feb 28, 2007
Hittite Microwave Corporation has introduced two new GaAs MMIC mixers that are well suited for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios, and ECM applications from 6 to 34 GHz.
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U.S. Army awards 10-year logistics contract for improved target acquisition system
Feb 28, 2007
Raytheon has been awarded an initial contract funding of $11.7 million by the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Systems Command, Huntsville, Ala., for contractor logistics support for the Improved Target Acquisition System, or ITAS. The ten-year, fixed-price contract, is valued at more than $300 million and continues contractor logistics support for the U.S. Army. ...
Advanced backplane design is crucial for 100 Gb traffic
Feb 28, 2007
By Steve Grossman,Editor Providing system-level support for 100 Gb/s Ethernet requires an advanced backplane design that can ensure line-rate transmission of traffic throughout the system....
Italian and Indian team to supply Indian Army radios
Feb 28, 2007
Italy's Finmeccanica and India's Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have signed an agreement to produce Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) standard secure radio systems for the Indian Army. ...
Core electronics for next-generation air defense radar on the way
Feb 28, 2007
EADS Defense & Security Systems will provide the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) with advanced electronics components which they say makes the system's fire control radar the most powerful radar worldwide.
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New turbofan engine to power India's Tejas fighter aircraft
Feb 14, 2007
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has ordered 24 of General Electric's F404-GE-IN20 turbofan engines with afterburning to power the first operational squadron of Tejas fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force. ...
Italy to equip Puma patrol vehicles with turrets
Feb 14, 2007
It was in May 2006, that an Italian soldier manning the gun of a Puma patrol vehicle, near Kabul, Afghanistan was killed when a roadside bomb flipped the vehicle over. ...
Semiconductor firms to collaborate on a 0.25-micron bipolar-CMOS-DMOS technology
Feb 14, 2007
Power Analog Microelectronics (PAM), a developer of Class-D digital audio amplifiers and high-power LED display driver semiconductors and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSMC) have announced a joint development effort for Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology based on a 0.25-micron high-voltage process. ...
