WALTHAM – Defense contractor Raytheon Company has launched a new pocket-sized military radio, designed to allow Land Warrior troops to communicate among themselves and with other members of the Army’s Tactical Internet.
Raytheon touted the MicroLight as the smallest, lightest and most power-efficient software-defined radio currently on the market. The radio is capable of supporting voice, data and Blue Force tracking simultaneously and offers the infantry a single radio, the company said.
MicroLight is a high-speed digital system that sends and receives secure data and voice messages over wireless networks and offers high bandwidth in a package the size of a personal digital assistant, Raytheon said. Because the radio is software-defined, it can be re-programmed to perform additional functions, incorporate emerging technology and add new waveforms.
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Board of Higher Education OKs scholarship
FRAMINGHAM – The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education unanimously approved the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program, a component of Gov. Mitt Romney’s Legacy of Learning initiative first unveiled last year.
Romney said the scholarship will offer four years of free tuition at the University of Massachusetts or at any of the nine state or 15 community colleges to the highest-performing high school graduates from across Massachusetts, the governor’s office said.
Beginning with the class of 2005, the Adams scholarship is open to all public school students who score in the top 25 percent on the MCAS test by the end of their junior year. Students who receive the tuition waiver must complete their college studies in four years or less and maintain a 3.0 grade-point average.
About 17,000 in next year’s senior class would qualify for free tuition, based on the number of students who took the test last year, Romney said. Last academic year, average tuition at state colleges was $977 and $740 at community colleges. At UMass, the average tuition was $1,575. The program is estimated to cost $8.3 million initially in fiscal year 2006 and about $34 million annually when it is fully up and running by its fourth year.
