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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.

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).

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.

 Strategy Analytics was at CS International 2015 last week, held in Frankfurt, Germany. Eric Higham, Director of Strategy Analytics’ Advanced Semiconductor Applications (ASA) service kicked off proceedings with insights into the challenges and prospects for GaAs and other RF technologies as increasing data consumption translates to ever more sophisticated cellular terminal front-ends.  

Airbus Defence and Space has introduced new technologies in its latest air surveillance radar to give the Airport Surveillance Radar Next Generation (ASR-NG) radar advantageous air traffic control capabilities.

RFMW Ltd. announces design and sales support for the TGA3504-SM, 2 to 30GHz Gain Block from TriQuint (Qorvo). The TGA3504-SM offers 8 dBm of output P1 dB with a corresponding small signal gain of up to 11.5 dB. Output third order intercept is >17 dBm. Wideband performance of the TGA3504-SM supports multiple applications such as Electronic Warfare (EW), military and commercial radar and military or commercial communication systems.

General Dynamics received a contract from the U.S. Army to support upgrades to the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform used in the Army's AN/PRC-155 two-channel MUOS-Manpack radios. 

Dow-Key® Microwave Corp., the world’s largest manufacturer of electromechanical switches, announced that it will showcase its 411HQ, 461H and 511H series of switches at the SATELLITE 2015 Exhibition, booth 7112, in Washington DC on March 17-19 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

inTEST Thermal Solutions (iTS) has designed a multi-zone thermal plate for hot/cold temperature cycling of microwave signal amplifiers used in satellite data communications.