RF MILITARY ELECTRONICS NEWS

• Harris Corporation Receives $29M Order From Nation In Asia For Falcon III Tactical Radios

  Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has received a $29M order to provide a nation in Asia with Falcon III wideband tactical radios.

• U.S. Navy Awards Lockheed Martin $57M Contract To Upgrade Electronic Warfare Ship Defense System
• New CMD158P3 Driver Amp Offers Medium Power With Single Supply
• Northrop Grumman AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR Radar System Demonstrates Ballistic Missile Defense Capability
• World Record Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifiers

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  White Paper: Airstrip™ — An Innovative Transmission Line Technology In Support Of Hi-Rel Space Qualified Packaging Mechanical integration of microwave components is often left as the last step while addressing manufacturing considerations for system-level designs. In many cases, the electrical design is analyzed, bread boards are built, electrical designs verified, and then it is left to the mechanical engineers to fit the various components into the final package. This paper shows how component manufacturers can help solve system-level packaging problems using Airstrip technology.

• White Paper: Passive RF And Microwave Beamformer Networks

  Beamforming networks for antennas have evolved since the 1960's. Early designs were typically fixed-beam architectures, although newer configurations include complex adaptive beamforming networks. This brief presentation reviews the origins of the technology, and offers several example circuit topologies of passive microwave beamformers. By Ken Greenwood, TRM Microwave

• White Paper: Advanced Microwave Laminate Materials For The Improvement Of Efficiency And Reliability In Antennas And Feed Networks Demands for higher system efficiency and improved product reliability at higher powers and wider operating temperature ranges in mission-critical antennas and feed networks have placed heightened and unique requirements on board materials. To meet these challenges, advanced laminate materials need to possess high electrical phase stability, dielectric constant control, high thermal conductivity, and multilayer capability. This article discusses the importance of critical material properties and explores new material developments for these applications. By George Q. Kang, Helena Li Hai, John C. Frankosky, Michael T. Smith, Arlon Materials for Electronics, Inc.

• Advanced Microwave Laminate Materials For The Improvement Of Efficiency And Reliability In Antennas And Feed Networks
• 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Specifying Integrated Microwave Assemblies
• White Paper: 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Specifying Integrated Microwave Assemblies

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SAS-563B - Active Shielded Loop Antenna

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DC To 26.5 GHz SP2T Electromechanical Switch - SEM124

Model SEM124 is a single-pole, double-throw electromechanical switch from Narda Microwave-East that operates from DC to 26.5 GHz with extremely low insertion loss, high isolation, and low VSWR.

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NuPower™ Multi-Octave Power Amplifier: NW-SSPA-15W-0.225-2.4

This multi-octave power amplifier is ideal for applications involving RF communication systems, broadband RF telemetry, test labs, and software defined radios.

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MILITARY HEADLINES

• Harris Corporation Receives $29M Order From Nation In Asia For Falcon III Tactical Radios

  Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has received a $29M order to provide a nation in Asia with Falcon III wideband tactical radios.

• U.S. Navy Awards Lockheed Martin $57M Contract To Upgrade Electronic Warfare Ship Defense System

  The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $57M contract to upgrade the fleet’s electronic warfare defenses against anti-ship missile threats. 

• New CMD158P3 Driver Amp Offers Medium Power With Single Supply

  Custom MMIC, a developer of performance-driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits, announces the introduction of the CMD158P3, a new broadband driver amplifier ideally suited for mixer LO chains, passive multipliers, and medium power applications.

• Northrop Grumman AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR Radar System Demonstrates Ballistic Missile Defense Capability

  Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) successfully detected multiple rocket launches during company-funded testing.

• World Record Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifiers

  Two teams of DARPA performers have achieved world record power output levels using silicon-based technologies for millimeter-wave power amplifiers.

• Pentek Launches Extensive Line Of AMC Products For Signal Processing I/O

  Pentek, Inc., recently launched the 56xxx family of Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) products giving customers instant access to the extensive line of signal processing products in the Pentek catalog.

• NuWaves Engineering Awarded Two Contracts For Unmanned Aircraft

  NuWaves Engineering, an international Radio Frequency (RF) and Embedded Systems solutions provider, announced recently that it has been awarded two contracts in support of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) programs related to communication data link range extension.