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Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, was awarded a $651 million hardware, production and sustainment contract for full-rate production of the AN/SPY-6(V) family of radars.

After the successful completion of Phase 1, DARPA has provided BAE Systems’ FAST Labs a $5 million contract for Phase 2 of the Technologies for Mixed-mode Ultra Scaled Integrated Circuits (T-MUSIC) program. 

The fast-growing commercial space market has made the Satellite Show an even more important gathering of space and associated ground equipment manufacturers. The RF and microwave company participation has grown fast over the last few years with beam steering arrays entering into the satellite communications market. While there has always been cable, filter and amplifier companies well represented, now there are more system and sub-systems companies than ever.

The U.S. Air Force has selected BAE Systems, with support from FlexRadio, to provide software-defined radios for its Airborne High Frequency Radio Modernization (AHFRM) program.

Mercury Systems, Inc announced the new RFS1140 system-in-package (SiP), a first to combine powerful state-of-the-art FPGA processing with Jariet Technologies’ high speed data converters at chip scale and manufactured in a trusted U.S. microelectronics facility.

Leonardo DRS Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Global Enterprise Solutions (GES) business to SES for $450 million. 

Teledyne e2v announced the production release of the space qualified EV12AQ600, the most advanced and versatile quad-core, multi-channel ADC in its portfolio of high performance products with QML-Y space certification.

Isotropic announced the first generation of its all-orbit antenna far exceeds production capacity in 2022 and the first half of 2023, ahead of commercial rollout in the second half of this year.