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Gowanda Electronics announced the introduction of the industry’s first off-the-shelf RF Surface Mount (SMT) Inductors with Established Reliability (ER) rating. The first-ever ER SMT series–Gowanda ER3013–was developed by Gowanda in response to a market need for surface mount options to the traditional leaded (thru-hole) designs.

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) is pleased to announce that starting this summer, GORE® Microwave Sealed Airframe Assemblies will be used to improve Wi-Fi internet access on European short-haul flights.

HENSOLDT and Leonardo have signed an agreement to offer Mode-5 Identification Friend or Foe solutions satisfy diverse customer’s needs around the world on a case-by-case basis.

Fairview Microwave Inc. has introduced a new series of 8-bit programmable phase shifters that are adjustable over a full 360° range. These three new models can produce a discrete set of phase states of up to 256 total steps in 1.4° increments with superior accuracy and minimal phase shift error.

Mercury Systems, Inc. received a follow-on order from the U.S. Navy, valued at up to $153 million over five years, to deliver digital RF memory subsystems for jamming in a multi-threat environment.

The SATELLITE 2017 conference, held March 6-9 in Washington, reflected the optimism of an industry chasing the promises of broadband and the IoT, fueled by the investments of wealthy entrepreneurs. To wit, Jeff Bezos, who became rich on the success of Amazon, is parlaying that success into his reusable rocket venture Blue Origin and a vision of renewed space exploration. Microwave Journal attended SATELLITE 2017 to see what role the RF/microwave industry is playing.

SAGE Millimeter has released a V-Band, dual polarized horn antenna assembly covering 50 to 75 GHz. The antenna features an integrated orthomode transducer (OMT) that provides high port isolation and cross-polarization cancellation, enabling the antenna to separate a circular or elliptical polarized waveform into two linear, orthogonal waveforms. At the center frequency, the horn antenna has 15 dBi nominal gain and a typical half-power beamwidth of 28 degrees on the E-plane and 33 degrees on the H-plane.

Terma has been awarded the delivery of SCANTER 5502 Surface Movement Radars to the new airport in Beijing, China opening in 2019.