RF & Microwave Industry News

Taoglas and Peregrine Semiconductor Team Up on a Digitally Tunable LTE Antenna Solution for M2M Market everything RF  |  May 17, 2013 Taoglas USA, Inc. a provider of antenna solutions to the M2M and connected device market, has teamed up with Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation to bring a dynamically tunable LTE antenna solution to the M2M market. The solution contains an embedded surface mount ceramic PIFA an...

New 4 to 8 GHz Low Noise Amplifier Offers 1.9 dB Noise Figure everything RF  |  May 17, 2013 Custom MMIC has added a new low noise amplifier, the CMD185P3, to its expanding line of standard amplifier products. The CMD185P3 has a low noise figure of 1.9 d...

Raytheon delivers electronic jamming capability for Gray Eagle UAS Microwave Journal  |  May 16, 2013 Raytheon Co. has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army's Networked Electronic Warfare, Remotely Operated (NERO) system. The payloads were delivered as part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy NAVSEA-Crane in 2012. NERO is utilized on the Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS (Umanned Aircraft System) as an airborne electronic attack system capable of jamming enemy communications systems.

PMI acquires HARI LLC Microwave Journal  |  May 16, 2013 Planar Monolithics Industries Inc. (PMI) has announced that effective April 30 2013, PMI acquired100% of all the assets & property of Hari LLC.

Planar Monolithics Separates From American Microwave, Acquires Amplifier Supplier HARI RF Globalnet  |  May 16, 2013 Raymond Sicotte, chairman and CEO of American Microwave Corporation (AMC), and Ashok Gorwara, chairman, president, and CEO of Planar Monolithics Industries (PMI), announced that they have completed realignment and separation of AMC and PMI.Sicotte and Gorwara were formally colleagues at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the late 1960s.

Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy catapult X-47B from carrier into history books Microwave Journal  |  May 16, 2013 Northrop Grumman Corp. and the U.S. Navy launched a new chapter in the history of unmanned systems – carrier-capable unmanned aircraft – by successfully catapulting the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush(CVN-77).

MTN and Norwegian Cruise Line Announce That Record Was Set for Social Media Usage During Norwegian Breakaway's Inaugural Events EE Times  |  May 16, 2013 View the full article HERE.

Custom MMIC's 4 to 8 GHz low noise amplifier offers 1.9 dB noise figure Microwave Journal  |  May 16, 2013 Custom MMIC, (www.CustomMMIC.com), a developer of performance-driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), has added a new low noise amplifier, the CMD185P3, to its expanding line of standard amplifier products.

Azimuth unveils scalable, smart, subscriber-centric solutions for mobile performance testing Microwave Journal  |  May 16, 2013 Mobile operators, OEMs, chipset and infrastructure vendors are challenged as never before with the deployment of new network, device and service technologies. The industry-accepted testing paradigm is under severe stress to accommodate an explosion of new test cases without corresponding increases in budget or time to market. At CTIA 2013, Azimuth is pleased to unveil solutions for a new testing paradigm.

4th Boeing GPS IIF satellite joins constellation on orbit Microwave Journal  |  May 16, 2013 With today’s launch of the fourth GPS IIF satellite, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force continue modernizing the Global Positioning System that millions of people worldwide rely on as a navigation and timing resource.