Software platform to assist in developing intelligence systems for processing radar signals
Mar 8, 2005
Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. has introduced its SDR-2000 ERDP, an electronic intelligence (ELINT) rapid-prototyping and development platform that is designed to promote the rapid development of intelligence systems targeting the intercept and processing of radar signals.
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Portugal awards $482 million armored vehicle contract
Mar 8, 2005
The government of Portugal has completed negotiations with General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems on a $482 million contract to produce 260 Pandur II eight-wheeled, all-wheel-drive (8 x 8) armored combat vehicles. ...
Military-aerospace manufacturer receives SAE AS9100 certification
Mar 8, 2005
Standex International Corporation has announced that its Standex Electronics/Magnetico business, a military-aerospace electronic component and electromechanical assembly manufacturer, has been SAE AS9100 certified by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG). ...
Navy commissions guided missile destroyer Nitze
Mar 8, 2005
The Navy commissioned the newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, Nitze, on March 5 at the Naval Station in Norfolk, VA.
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Homeland Security to test RF identifiers at U.S. borders
Mar 8, 2005
The Department of Homeland Security is experimenting with radio-frequency identification technology (RFID) to track foreigners as they enter and leave the United States. ...
7 GHz to 32 GHz microwave amplifiers deliver up to 2 W
Feb 22, 2005
Hittite Microwave has introduced four high-dynamic-range, 1 W and 2 W, MMIC power amplifiers, covering 7 GHz to 32 GHz, for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and test equipment applications.
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A fifth brigade of Stryker vehicles is ordered
Feb 22, 2005
The U.S. Army has ordered a fifth brigade of Stryker wheeled combat vehicles from General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics. ...
U.S. Army awards $151 million Patriot engineering services contract
Feb 22, 2005
The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command has awarded a $151 million contract to Raytheon Company to provide engineering services support for the Patriot air and missile defense program.
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DC-DC power converters become space qualified
Feb 22, 2005
The Defense Logistics Agency has certified VPT Inc. and its partner Delta Electronics in Taiwan, for programs requiring space-qualified dc-dc converters in compliance with MIL-PRF-38534, Class K. ...
Satellite TV to offer Pentagon channel
Feb 22, 2005
EchoStar Communications and its DISH Network satellite TV service is offering its viewers the Pentagon Channel, the Defense Department's news and information network for and about the military.
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Testing begins of first Aegis weapons system equipped with SPY-1F radar
Feb 22, 2005
IZAR and Lockheed Martin have begun testing the first Aegis weapon system equipped with the new SPY-1F radar to be installed aboard the Norwegian frigate Fridtjof Nansen (F-310) at IZAR's shipyard in Ferrol, Spain. ...
Swedish Coast Guard to acquire Canadian aircraft for maritime surveillance
Feb 22, 2005
The Swedish Coast Guard will acquire three Q300 aircraft manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace of Toronto, Canada, and they will be equipped to fulfill the Coast Guard's next-generation fisheries and environmental surveillance missions.
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Aegis weapons systems to be upgraded on three destroyers
Feb 9, 2005
The Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract modification valued at $112.5 million to provide three sets of the Aegis weapon system to the U.S. Navy. ...
Amplifier delivers extraordinary gain flatness
Feb 9, 2005
Amplical Corp. has introduced its model AMPL56-15, a 1 GHz to 6 GHz amplifier that provides 15 dB gain with a gain flatness of better than ± 0.25 dB. ...
