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Harris Corp. has received $45 million in delivery orders for advanced satellite communications terminals under the U.S. Army's Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET) program. The next-generation military satellite communications terminals will provide the worldwide backbone for high-priority military communications and missile defense systems.

For all its troubles, Lockheed Martin's F-35 joint stealth fighter remains a very popular warplane -- both here and abroad.

Over the next 60 years, Lockheed Martin aims to sell as many as 5,100 F-35s to customers around the globe. And as we just learned from DoDBuzz, one single Pentagon contract could bring Lockheed 10 percent of the way toward scoring that goal. 

3D Glass Solutions, a leader in glass-based systems integration for electronic packages, is proud to announce the newly elected chairman of their board of directors, Stuart Schoenmann. Schoenmann joins the 3D Glass Solutions Board with more than 30 years of expertise in the applied technology and high-tech manufacturing industry, along with 12 years of CEO and COO experience. His experience also includes implementing aggressive growth strategies, including leading companies from $10 million to $200 million in sales. 

Remcom announced a partnership with Moasoft Corp., a provider of software and consulting services in South Korea. The partnership will expand Remcom’s presence in the Korean market and enable customers there to more easily access its electromagnetic simulation software, services and support. 

 FIME's EMV(R) RF test tool, which incorporates Keysight Technologies' Contactless Test System, is the first to achieve EMVCo qualification to perform Level 1 PCD analogue testing on contactless terminals. The tool confirms that the communication between the terminal and a contactless card, or near field communication (NFC)-enabled smartphone, is in line with EMVCo's EMV specification 2.3 requirements. Contactless terminal and mobile point of sale (mPOS) manufacturers can use the tool to speed up their EMV Level 1 analogue approval process. 

Pasternack, a leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, rolls out a brand new collection of high performance zero biased waveguide detectors that exhibit optimum performance in Ka, Q, U, V, E and W frequency bands. These waveguide detectors are widely deployed in various aerospace, defense and commercial wireless applications used in instrumentation, power detection, power monitoring, direct detection receivers, high frequency communications, radar, SATCOM, point-to-point radio, telecom, data links and R&D. 

Lockheed Martin has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sikorsky Aircraft, a world leader in military and commercial rotary-wing aircraft, for $9 billion. The price is effectively reduced to approximately $7.1 billion, after taking into account tax benefits resulting from the transaction. 

Agile Microwave Technology Inc., a product innovator in RF and microwave component and sub-system market is pleased to announce the appointment of MC Microwave Inc. as its sales representative for Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii. MC Microwave is based out of San Jose, Calif. established in 1981 and has been supporting high quality RF and microwave components & systems to the commercial and military markets.

Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG has taken shares in the telematic company CE+, located in Timelkam, Austria.

Novelda announced the appointment of Trionic Associates Inc. as its engineering and technical sales representative for the New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania region of the U.S.