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Wolfspeed's revenue reached $50 million in fiscal Q1, and parent Cree projected that Infineon's acquisition will close by the end of 2016, despite a "second request" from the U.S. government to support its anti-trust review.

DRS Technologies Inc., a Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company, announced the introduction of a new family of small, high-performance RF monitoring and detection receivers for use in U.S. military, intelligence agency, and commercial spectrum monitoring applications.

The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin marked a milestone with the completion of manufacturing of more than 15,000 line replaceable units containing 36,000 GaN-based high power amplifiers (HPAs) for Space Fence.

On July 14, 2016, Infineon Technologies AG and Cree, Inc. that the two companies had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (“Wolfspeed”) of Cree. The deal also includes the related SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power and moves Infineon into a greater role in the defense business.

Thales will be playing a major role in Unmanned Warrior, a large Royal Navy demonstration to determine the feasibility of using unmanned systems in a maritime environment.

Anaya Vardya, CEO at American Standard Circuits, announces that his company has achieved its AS9100 Rev C Certification. AS9100 is the internationally recognized quality management system standard specific to the aerospace, aviation and defense industries. This standard is strongly supported and adhered to by major aerospace OEMs and is being required by vendors within the supply chain on an increasing basis.

MACOM is sampling three new broadband voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) that collectively cover 6 to 20 GHz. They were designed to address the needs of test and measurement (T&M), aerospace and defense (A&D) and communications.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon Co. a contract modification to develop “a transition to production process” to incorporate GaN into existing and future AN/TPY-2 radars.

Airbus Defence and Space is continuing to future-proof its site at Friedrichshafen, Germany, with the construction of a new Integrated Technology Centre (ITC).