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    Wafer bonding onto compatible substrates is the critical step for integrating single-crystal thin films into multifunction devices.
    Communications

    DARPA sets briefings for wafer bonding thin-film crystals for new sensors and communications applications

    John Keller
    March 25, 2025
    Modeling wafer film crystal bonding would accelerate research into multifunction materials, fabrication, and scalable integration.

    RF/Analog

    Air Force personnel operate a simulated foreign drone during a counter-small unmanned aerial systems demonstration at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, in 2022.
    RTX Raytheon will upgrade the AMRAAM missile to mitigate effects of component obsolescence and keep the weapon in operation for as long as possible before it is replaced by the future AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM)
    Vertiv Liquid Cooling Services design and development tools to help in the design of advanced liquid cooling systems
    2.92-millimeter cable assemblies from Amphenol RF are for terrestrial communications, SATCOM, and quantum computing applications
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    Collins Aerospace joins Northrop Grumman in bid to interference-mitigating RF and microwave technologies for AESA transmit-and-receive antennas.
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    L3Harris will handle space electronic warfare enhancements to the U.S. counter-communications system (CCS) to jam enemy satellite communications
    The Connor-Winfield CW25-GDO-DK series is a combined GPS receiver and GPS disciplined oscillator module for time and frequency synchronization.
    The Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) is designed to destroy high-value, well-defended, fixed and relocatable targets.
    Sensors

    Lockheed Martin to upgrade guidance sensors of JASSM, LRASM, JAGM, and Hellfire air-launched missiles

    John Keller
    March 10, 2025
    Lockheed Martin will research improvements in line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight (LOS/N-LOS) technologies for seekers and autonomous weapons.
    This Allen-Vanguard RF multi-function cyber and electromagnetic activities (CEMA) system on module helps detect and defeat radio-controlled threats.
    Computers

    Software-defined radio electronic warfare (EW) to detect improvised explosives offered by Allen-Vanguard

    March 10, 2025
    This technology enables direct RF sampling without the use of tuners across RF spectrum used by hostile uncrewed aircraft and radio-controlled bombs.
    This artist's rendering of the Aurora Flight Sciences Liberty Lifter design depicts a design that resembles a traditional flying boat, with a single hull, high wing, and eight turboprop engines.
    Computers

    Aurora progresses on job to build large seaplane with complex controls and ability to fly combat vehicles

    John Keller
    March 7, 2025
    The Liberty Lifter long-range seaplane will provide smooth operations in ground effect and in waves that are four to eight feet high.
    The BroadWave Technologies model series 351-358-XXX 100-Watt fixed attenuator is for testing, telecommunications, wireless, and defense applications.
    RF/Analog

    Fixed attenuator with SMA female connectors for radar, defense, and aerospace uses introduced by BroadWave

    BroadWave Technologies Inc
    March 7, 2025
    Power RF and microwave device is to reduce the amount of power delivered in a transmission line without introducing much noise or distortion.
    Army forward observers use integrated tactical network components during a live-fire exercise at Camp Atterbury, Ind., last January.
    Trusted Computing

    Army surveys industry for companies able to provide zero trust cyber security to protect tactical networks

    John Keller
    March 6, 2025
    Solutions should implement zero-trust, and operate amid denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited contested communications and information.