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Mercury Systems Inc., announced that it received a $10.8 million follow-on order against its 5 year sole source basic ordering agreement (BOA) to deliver advanced Digital RF Memory (DRFM) jammers to the U.S. Navy. The order was received in the Company's fiscal 2017 second quarter and is expected to be shipped over the next several quarters.

Qorvo^® announced the election of Susan L. Spradley to its board of directors, effective January 1, 2017. Spradley will also join the board's governance and nominating committee.

Infinite Electronics, a supplier of engineering grade RF components, assemblies and wired / wireless connectivity solutions, announced today that it has acquired KP Performance Antennas, an Edmonton Canada based manufacturer of broadband antennas and accessories.

Huawei, a leading global ICT solutions provider, has chosen a test solution from Rohde & Schwarz based on the R&S SMW200A vector signal generator and the R&S FSW signal and spectrum analyzer to perform NB-IoT base station tests in line with Release 13 Cat-NB1. The Huawei eRAN 12.0 wireless version is tested using the Rohde & Schwarz solution in compliance with 3GPP TS 36.141.

Amphenol RF is proud to introduce a new line of N-type to AMC fixed length cable assemblies. The assemblies are ideal for use in indoor and outdoor wireless applications including automated meter reading and outdoor access points.

Antenova Ltd., manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for M2M and the Internet of Things, is launching a series of tools and resources to help product designers successfully integrate antennas onto new PCB designs, with the aim of making antenna integration simpler and faster for all designers.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Co. a $37 million contract to demonstrate new satellite communications technology that will continuously link tactical users with military leaders in contested environments.

In its latest coverage update on the cellular M2M module market, ABI Research forecasts that cellular M2M module shipments will exceed 400 million in 2021. This is an increase over previous forecasts, driven in part by operator announcements of accelerated rollouts of NB-IoT networks.

Effective October 28, 2016, MACOM sold the former Metelics Londonderry Point Contact Diode product line to Massachusetts Bay Technologies (MBT), located at 378 Page Street, Stoughton, Mass. This product line will be moved to MBT at the end of December 2016 and fully functional by the first week of January 2017.

Responding to MACOM’s repeated and strong public statements about its lawsuit against Infineon Technologies over rights to GaN on Si technology, Infineon publicly responded with its side of the case.