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3D Glass Solutions, a leader in glass-based systems integration for electronic packaging, is proud to announce the addition of Kirby Jefferson to its board of advisors. Jefferson joins 3D Glass Solutions after spending the last 35 years with Intel Corp. in the applied technology and high-tech manufacturing industries.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a $95 million contract for low-rate initial production of the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (JCREW) Increment 1 Block 1 (I1B1).

WIN Semiconductors Corp., the world’s largest pure-play compound semiconductor foundry,announced the expansion of its GaN technology portfolio with addition of the NP45 gallium nitride on silicon carbide process. NP45 is a 0.45μm-gate MMIC technology enabling users to design fully integrated amplifier products as well as custom discrete transistors, and has been optimized for use in 4G macro-cell base station power amplifiers operating at 2.7 GHz and above where bandwidth and linearity performance are key differentiators.

NTT DOCOMO INC. announced an agreement with Telefonica Brasil S.A to launch an eSIM, which will enable M2M devices to work on the operator’s network.

EnSilica has established a new regional office and design center in Bristol to complement its existing headquarters facility in Wokingham and verification center of excellence and design center in Bangalore.

Infineon Technologies has opened a new building complex in Villach, Austria for production, research and development where the focus is on designing the development and production environment according to the principles of Industry 4.0.

Dow-Key Microwave announces the release of its new product series called Reliant Switch™, with a SPDT being the first RF switch in this series made available to the RF & test industry.

Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and things, and PMC-Sierra Inc., a semiconductor and software solutions leader in storage, optical and mobile networks, announced that they have entered into an amended and restated merger agreement under which Skyworks has agreed to acquire PMC for $11.60 in cash per share of PMC common stock, an increase from its previous agreement to acquire PMC for $10.50 in cash per share of PMC common stock.

Mercury Systems Inc., announced its participation in the upcoming 2015 Defense Daily Open Architecture Summit, to be held Nov. 4, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Ian Dunn, Mercury’s vice president and general manager, Embedded Products Group, will serve on a panel addressing Open Architectures in Electronic Warfare (EW) at 3:30 PM ET.

NuWaves Engineering, a veteran-owned small business delivering advanced radio frequency (RF) and microwave solutions, today introduced the NuPower 05E05A, a compact and highly efficient solid-state power amplifier (PA) module for S-Band transmitters and data links.