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MACOM announced the newest entry in its GaN-on-Si power transistor portfolio, designed for pulsed L-Band radar systems for airport surveillance radar.

Leonardo DRS announced that it has been awarded a production contract from the U.S. Army, under an urgent operational need, to develop a comprehensive counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capability to protect soldiers from enemy drones.

Saab has received an order from the U.S. Navy to provide the Sea Giraffe Agile Multi Beam (AMB), Multi-Mode Radar (MMR). The order value amounts to $16.8M USD (140 MSEK).

Gore will be exhibiting products from both GORE^® Military Fabrics and GORE^® Cables and Materials–engineered to perform reliably on the battlefield and in the air–at the 2017 AUSA Annual Meeting on October 9-11 in Washington, D.C.

TE Connectivity (TE) has released its O.C.H. micro circular connectors, in accordance with standards specified by the U.S. Army’s Nett Warrior program.

Harris Corporation has received a $260 million order to develop an integrated tactical communications network as part of an Asia-Pacific country’s modernization program.

Xilinx announced delivery of its Zynq® UltraScale+™ RF SoC family, a breakthrough architecture integrating the RF signal chain into an SoC for 5G wireless, cable remote-PHY and radar. Based on a 16 nm UltraScale+ MPSoC architecture, the programmable RF SoCs monolithically integrate RF data converters, for up to 50–75 percent system power and footprint reduction, and soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) cores to meet 5G and DOCSIS 3.1 standards. With silicon samples already shipping to multiple customers, the early access program for the Zynq UltraScale+ RF SoC family is now available.

DARPA’s Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) program recently completed flight tests, successfully demonstrating a new sensor that can capture real-time video through clouds.