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Blighter Surveillance Systems has enhanced its Blighter e-scan radar’s effectiveness for coastal and harbour security with a raft of new features including a sea wave clutter filter.

Anite has launched Nemo Invex II, its latest state-of-the-art benchmarking solution for operators, wireless infrastructure vendors, certification laboratories and regulatory bodies.

BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation along with industrial partners have been awarded a £120 million two-year contract by the UK and French governments to help define the Franco-British requirement for a Future Combat Air System programme.

Pickering Interfaces, a leading provider of modular signal switching and instrumentation, is pleased to announce a significant milestone in providing test engineers with the optimum PXI solutions for their Test & Measurement applications. The company now offers over 1,000 PXI modules, ranging from their BRIC™ high density switching matrices, RF/microwave and optical switching products through to precision resistor switching networks for sensor emulation.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced it will provide single vendor service solutions for a broad range of multi-vendor products. The services include calibration of physical, dimensional and optical products; training; and company-wide support.

Raytheon Co. announced that it has acquired Blackbird Technologies, a leading provider of persistent surveillance, secure tactical communications and cybersecurity solutions to the Intelligence Community (IC) and special operations market.

Thales Finmeccanica – Selex ES have been awarded contracts to lead, specify and define the UK-French FCAS (Future Combat Air System) multifunction sensor suite and communications sub-systems. 

RFMD, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, announced that it has earned Huawei's Supplier of the Year Award at a ceremony held today at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, China. The award recognizes RFMD as Huawei's best supplier of RF components, which are used in Huawei's mobile phones and infrastructure products. This is the second year in a row that RFMD has earned Huawei's Supplier of the Year Award.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced frequency-extension upgrades for its PXA, MXA and EXA  X-Series signal analyzers. Currently, no other manufacturer provides the opportunity to upgrade frequency range after the initial purchase of a signal analyzer. 

With the consumer shift from viewing TV over multichannel subscription video services to watching Internet video via a broadband or Wi-Fi connection, as well as the growing popularity of watching video across a wide range of devices, today’s households are taxing metro residential backhaul networks like never before. This was the focus of Ciena®-sponsored research conducted by ACG Research.