The Sharp (and Painful) Relationship between Market and Economic Trends and One’s Engineering Field of Expertise and Career Choices In this month’s column I have chosen to bring up a real-life story received from one of our readers (name withheld). In summary, it tells the story of an RF engineer who strayed to programming fields and has a hard time coming back. The … [Read more...]
Firm Wins $4.8 Million Contract to Shield Military Radio
Wisconsin-based VTI Vacuum Technologies, Inc. has been awarded a $4.8 million contract by the office of Federal Prison Industries/Unicor. (Unicor is owned by the U.S. Department of Justice.) The contract requires that VTI provide a corrosion-resistant topcoat,EMI shieldingand outsourcing of the CARC (chemical agent resistant paint) for 300,000 components that are assembled into … [Read more...]
ETS-Lindgren Wins $16.7 Million Contract to Provide Test Chambers to India's Growing Auto Industry
ESCO Technologies Inc., the parent company of ETS-Lindgren L.P., has been awarded a $16.7 million contract to design, construct, install, and certify two automotive test chamber facilities in India for the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP). This contract, one of the largest test chamber contracts in ETS's history, is expected to deliver … [Read more...]
KEMET Recognizes Employee for EMC Filter Patent
KEMET Corporation honored its 2008 United States patent recipients at its annual Patent Awards Luncheon on May 22, 2008, including Mike Randall for his Valve Metal Electromagnetic Interference Filter, U.S. Patent Number 7,211,740.KEMET employees received patents in areas such as low Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) and Equivalent Series Inductance (ESL) capacitor design, … [Read more...]
DOD Issues RFQ for RF Filter with Estimated Contract Value of $43,352.12
The U.S. Government is interested in issuing an award for a one-year contract with an additional year option for an RF filter (NSN 5915001288130). The DOD estimates the value of this contract at $43,352.12. Learn more about this RFQ by visiting the Federal Business Opportunities website. … [Read more...]
PPM Becomes UK Distributors for Group 3 Technology, New Zealand
PPM Ltd has been appointed the exclusive UK Distributor for Group 3 Technology in New Zealand. These products allow a low cost point-to-point link for analog and digital information. A suite of software drivers for use with LabView, or other control software packages are also available, allowing users to drive and read back information with almost any type of transducer. This … [Read more...]
