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Mercury Systems Inc., a leading high-tech commercial provider of more affordable secure and sensor processing subsystems powering today’s critical defense and intelligence applications, announced that its Mercury Defense Systems (MDS) subsidiary has received $2 million in follow-on orders to deliver advanced Digital RF Memory (DRFM) jammers to the U.S. Navy.

Cobham AvComm, formerly Aeroflex AvComm business unit, announced new automated test and alignment support for Motorola APX Series and Motorola MOTOTRBO Series radios to its latest product; the 8800 Series Digital Radio Test Set. The application fully automates radio testing and alignment, and ensures optimum radio performance in significantly less time; minimizing service and support costs for the end users and dealers.

Pole/Zero released their new line of NANO-ERF™ tunable bandpass filters covering the entire military tactical radio band of 30 to 520 MHz while fitting in a low-profile package measuring 1.1” x 1.1”x 0.216” (28  x 28  x 5.5 mm).

Accel-RF Instruments Corp., the worldwide leader in turn-key reliability and performance characterization test systems for compound semiconductors, announces its participation in the upcoming GOMACTech 2015 Conference. GOMACTech will take place March 23-26 at the Union Station Hotel in St. Louis, Mo.

Harris Corp. has received a $47 million order for wideband radio systems from a nation in the Middle East as part of its continuing tactical communications modernization program.

Raytheon received a contract modification for $122,443,911 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-14-C-0075) for the procurement of 114 Tomahawk Block IV All Up Round missiles for the U.S. Navy. This completes the Navy's planned purchase of 214 Tomahawk Block IV missiles for fiscal year 2015 and continues to build the inventory to support warfighting requirements.

Anite has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Telecommunication Technology Labs – Terminals, with the aim of collaborating to progress development of cutting-edge MIMO Over-The-Air testing methodologies and solutions.

Microsemi Corp., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced its award-winning TimeProvider® 5000 Software Release 2.2, adding ITU-T G.8275.1 phase synchronization profile support with a software upgrade and license key. The new software release now supports Synchronous Ethernet and the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) phase profile.

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced its newest version of the HyperLynx® Signal Integrity/Power Integrity (SI/PI) product for high-speed printed circuit board (PCB) designs. The HyperLynx product addresses high-speed systems design problems throughout the design flow—starting at the earliest architectural stages through post-layout verification.

Pasternack, a leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, announces the release of their newest line of 75 ohm test cables with operation up to 3 GHz. These rugged cable assemblies are specially designed to withstand the rigors of test lab use and applications in 75 ohm communications systems.