Mercury Systems, Inc., will join an elite group of defense industry leaders at Defense Innovation Days, Aug. 26-28, 2015, in Newport, R.I. Presented by the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA), the conference unites organizations developing cutting-edge technology and policymakers helping steer the nation’s defense strategy.
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is a U.S. Army anti-ballistic missile system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill approach. The interceptor missile carries no warhead, but relies on the kinetic energy of the direct impact to destroy the incoming threat. Verotec has supplied Lockheed with custom 4U, 750 mm deep 19 inch VPX chassis that houses a signal integrity testing subsystem, the reconfigurable and analogue Self Test Subsystem. 
Anatech Electronics introduced the AB915B656 rugged indoor/outdoor GSM-band cavity bandpass filter designed for both commercial and defense wireless applications that combines high rejection, low return loss and the ability to remove nearby interference. 
In a contract worth some hundreds of millions of euro Finmeccanica-Selex ES will supply an air surveillance and defense system to the Qatar Armed Forces to safeguard the country’s airspace.