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Pentek Inc., announced an addition to its popular family of Talon® signal recording systems, the RTR 2623 6 GHz RF Sentinel™ Intelligent Signal Scanning portable, rugged recorder. The RTR 2623 combines and exploits the power of a Pentek Talon recording system with a fully integrated 6 GHz RF down converter. The Sentinel capability adds intelligent signal scanning with real-time signal monitoring and detection that is fully user configurable.

The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) has selected the Terma SCANTER 6000 radar as the combined navigation and helicopter control radar for its two Lekiu-class frigates mid-life modernization and service life extension.

Mercury Systems Inc. announced it received a $6.3 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for microwave transceivers for a precision guided munitions application. The order was booked in the company’s fiscal 2017 first quarter and is expected to be shipped over the next several quarters.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of the Secretary of Defense have awarded Raytheon Co. a $14.9 million contract to further enhance its process for producing gallium nitride-based semiconductors. The new agreement aims to increase the performance, yield and reliability of Raytheon GaN-based, wideband, monolithic, microwave-integrated circuits and circulator components.

Anokiwave Inc., an innovative company providing highly integrated IC solutions for mmW markets and active antenna based solutions, announced the appointment of Vincent E. Pelliccia as vice president, business development. This appointment comes at a strategic time for Anokiwave with tremendous opportunities to grow its business into the rapidly developing mmW 5G, radar, satcom and stratellite markets.

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.