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Mercury Systems Inc., a leading high-tech commercial provider of more affordable secure and sensor processing subsystems powering today’s critical defense and intelligence applications, announced it received $4.1 million in orders from a leading defense prime contractor to provide digital signal and image processing modules for an unmanned airborne ISR application. The orders were booked in the Company’s fiscal 2015 fourth quarter and are expected to be shipped over the next several quarters.

Millitech Inc., a leader in millimeter-wave technology, announces the product launch of Spartan Test Modules (STM), a new line of high frequency test modules providing an excellent value lower cost alternative to fully integrated millimeter-wave test systems.

NEC Portugal, a subsidiary of NEC Corp., has installed a microwave radio link between the islands of Sao Tome and Principe, providing twenty 2 Mbps channels for GSM mobile communications and a minimum of 300 Mbps for IP data communications using the 4 GHz band with a modulation of 64QAM.

Rohde & Schwarz has validated the first conformance test case described in work item 186 for the IMS-based Rich Communication Suite 5.1 (RCS 5.1).

Nokia has received approval from the European Commission for its pending acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.

United States and allied military forces are set to upgrade key missile defense capabilities under a new $1.5 billion contract for production and delivery of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) missiles.

 Technicolor has entered into an exclusive agreement with Cisco to acquire its customer premises equipment (CPE) business for €550 million (or $600 million equivalent) in a cash and stock transaction, reviewed by the Boards of Directors of the two companies, which will be on a cash free, debt free basis. The acquisition should result in Technicolor’s Connected Home segment reaching adjusted EBITDA in excess of €200 million by year end 2016 and best-in-class profitability (i.e.8-9% adjusted EBITDA margin) by 2017. 

The Sentinel-5 Precursor platform and the TROPOMI instrument have been integrated to form the satellite which will be leaving the UK for testing. Airbus Defence and Space will deliver the spacecraft to Intespace in Toulouse, France, for final system level testing.

 Custom MMIC, a leading developer of performance driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), is pleased to announce the appointment of Seaport Technical Sales, Inc. as their new technical representative covering the Pacific Northwestern territory, including Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.