IN MY OPINION
Two Sides of the DoD Coin: Budgets Slashed, UAV Market Soars

By Fred Ortiz, President
dB Control


As we embark on a new year, imminent cuts to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budget are top of mind for those of us in the military electronics market. At a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing, the nation’s military chiefs cited a $600 billion defense cut as “catastrophic to the military” and having a “severe and irreversible impact.”

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FROM WHERE WE SIT

By Bob Pinato, Owner, ICCS, LLC.

LightSquared:
The Show’s Over
…Or Should Be
By Barry Manz

There are a lot of very technically astute people at the Federal Communications Commission. Many have decades of experience at every level of RF and microwave technology. How then might LightSquared’s proposal for a satellite/terrestrial LTE network have ever gotten past its first hurdle? Even a cursory inspection of the plan, in which the company's network would operate extremely close to GPS frequencies at L-band, makes interference to GPS devices almost a certainty. Read More...


CURRENT ISSUE PRODUCTS


Parallel Gap Welder
Model SMAPRO180 parallel gap welding machine can weld gold and silver ribbons as well as enameled wires without additional coating layer stripping steps. It eliminates the expensive and difficult stripping process and results in more reliable joints.

SW Tech Equipment

Signal and Spectrum Analyzer
The R&S FSW signal and spectrum analyzer comes in three models that cover the frequency ranges from 2 kHz to 8 GHz, 13 GHz and 26.5 GHz. The analyzer outperforms all other high-end instruments on the market, with phase noise values that are up to 10 dB lower.

Rohde & Schwarz

Externally Biased Balanced Mixer
Model SFB-15-N2 is a V-band, externally biased balanced mixer. The mixer employs high performance GaAs Schottky beamlead diodes, balanced configuration and proprietary bias circuitry to produce superior RF performance with very LO pumping level.
Sage Millimeter

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