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Pentek, Inc. announced an addition to its popular family of Talon^® Sentinel™ signal recording systems, the RTR 2613, which combines Pentek’s intelligent signal scanning software with real-time recording in a lightweight, portable and rugged package.

Antenna start-up Kymeta launched its third cross-country drive, a two-week road trip across the U.S. in its connected Toyota RAV4 to demonstrate its KĀLO™ mobile internet service.

Terma, in partnership with Tata Advanced Systems Ltd., India has been awarded a contract to execute Indian Navy’s Surface Surveillance Radar project for 31 radars.

The KOREASAT-5A communications satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space for South Korean operator KTSAT has been successfully launched.

Akoustis Technologies has received its first purchase order from a first-tier smartphone manufacturer, which the company says is one of the top five global manufacturers. The order calls for the development of two high frequency BAW filters, covering high band LTE and 5 GHz Wi-Fi.

As part of the Operational Capability 1 phase Bittium has contributed to the European Secure Software defined Radio program.

To address the challenges of miniaturization and increased density of components in a given volume, the industry has focused on reducing size, weight and power (SWaP). This long-running approach is beginning to see limits in foundry and packaging processes and the continued SWaP progression. Two key factors are behind this.

Harris Corporation has completed development of the company’s fully digital Mission Data Unit (MDU), which is at the heart of its navigation payload for Lockheed Martin’s GPS III satellites 11 and beyond.

A new generation of Software-Defined Spectrum Analysis solutions has been developed. By being based on software-defined radio innovation, these solutions are able to provide the frequency and performance required in a compact, versatile, and cost-effective unit, and they can be quickly upgraded or adjusted for a wide variety of deployment scenarios. This gives users the flexibility and versatility needed to adapt to changing signal processing and analysis requirements without undergoing a full hardware upgrade.