Raytheon Co. demonstrated their successful prototyping of Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) technologies into the US Patriot Air and Missile Defense System radar. In addition to enabling future 360 sensor coverage, these technologies will significantly increase the defended area and decrease the time to detect, discriminate and engage threats. The introduction of GaN-based AESA technologies will also further improve reliability and lower the life cycle costs for the Patriot radar, beyond what has already been achieved with other recent Patriot radar improvements.
Thales Alenia Space has signed an agreement with the Italian Space Agency for the next phase of the second generation COSMO-SkyMed activities.
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a pair of GaN low noise amplifiers targeted at military and commercial radar applications as well as SatCom, point-to-point radio and WiMax applications. 
A multi-million Euro contract has been awarded to Finmeccanica - Selex ES by defence and security company Saab to supply the Raven ES-05 AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radar for Saab's Gripen Next Generation (NG) fighters. 
Selex ES has signed a contract worth approximately €12 million with the NATO support agency NSPA to modernise three RAT 31 DL three-dimensional air defence radar systems, which are currently in active service in Turkey.