MwT Inc., Fremont, CA, a wholly owned subsidiary of IXYS Corp., announced that it has been awarded a contract from BAE Systems with total amount over $2.5 M. MwT has been a well known supplier to military and defense industry for the past 25 years. MwT manufactures high performance and high quality microwave semiconductor devices, MMICs, modules and subsystems for wireless communication infrastructure, defense, industrial and medical equipment applications. The contract that MwT has won consists of a large volume of custom connectorized microwave amplifiers with military electrical specifications and high reliability requirements.

“We are pleased for being selected as a key supplier for a major military program by a first tier defense system company like BAE Systems,” said Greg Zhou, General Manager of MwT. “The award of this job has demonstrated the recognition on our outstanding technical and manufacturing capabilities, quality system and cost competitiveness in our business sectors.”

Besides being a supplier to various military programs for major defense system companies on high performance and high quality amplifiers and subsystems, MwT has also been a long-term supplier for various Space and High Rel programs. In addition, MwT has strong design capability on MMIC products. New MMIC products include 2 to 10 GHz wideband MMIC driver, 2 to 20 GHz wideband MMIC PA and 6 to 18 GHz wideband MMIC PA chips, etc. These MMIC products are available in both chip form and in surface-mount hermetic packages that operate up to 20 GHz.