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Navy Picks Tahoe RF For Novel Phased Array

July 1, 2009

Tahoe RF Semiconductor has received an STTR Phase 1 award from the United States Navy for the development of a novel phase shifterless RF phased array antenna system. The STTR program provides as much as $850,000 in early-stage research and development funding directly to small companies working cooperatively with researchers at universities and other research institutions. Tahoe RF will conduct the development in cooperation with Professor James Buckwalter's team at the University of California San Diego. The research is based on the use of novel coupled voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) networks to enable small and phase-shifterless phased-array antennas capable of supporting wideband software-defined radios (SDRs).

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.