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Wolfspeed, a Cree Company, has partnered with Lockheed Martin to provide GaN high power amplifiers (HPAs) for the U.S. Air Force’s Space Fence, which will significantly improve the timeliness with which operators can detect space events that could potentially threaten GPS satellites or the International Space Station.

Barry Industries announces the introduction of a RoHS compliant flange mount RF termination, T50R0-1750-1X, which dissipates 1750 W with favorable return loss over a DC to 1GHz bandwidth. Barry Industries is an ISO9001:2008 certified, ITAR registered manufacturer of high quality thick film resistors, terminations, attenuators and high temperature co-fired ceramic (HTCC) packaging.

Pasternack, a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, releases of an all new line of ruggedized phase stable VNA test cables operating up to 40 GHz depending on the series. These VNA test cables are specially designed to withstand the rigors of test lab use and production testing for 50 ohm communications systems.

Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and things, announced that it received the 2015 National Export Award (PNE) from Mexico. The PNE is one of four national awards given by Mexico's federal government recognizing companies, educational institutions and organizations whose efforts have contributed to strengthening Mexico's competitiveness in international markets. Specifically, Skyworks was recognized for being a role model of innovation and efficiency in delivering high value products to global markets.

Amphenol RF is pleased to introduce new and improved SMA and N-Type coaxial connectors that have been optimized for low loss cables. Low loss cables incorporate additional shielding in the form of a bonded foil conductor, which helps to improve grounding. Low Loss cables and the newly optimized connectors are matched to 50 ohm impedance, allowing for maximum and reliable signal transfer.

Response Microwave Inc. a global specialist in providing RF/microwave customer solutions, is pleased to announce the availability of its new 3 dB 90° quadrature hybrids for use in various applications within the FCC and ETSI sanctioned International Science and Medical band.

National Instruments, a leading provider of platform-based test systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world's greatest engineering challenges, announced its acquisition of Micropross, a company based near Lille, France, a technology innovator and leading supplier of test systems for Near Field Communications (NFC), smart cards and wireless charging test systems. Micropross will continue to operate as a wholly owned NI subsidiary under the leadership of the existing management team.

Advantech Wireless, a global leader for satellite and microwave broadband communications solutions, was selected by Raytheon to supply Transcend™ 800 microwave radio subsystem for point to point Microwave communications as part of Raytheon’s on going microwave development infrastructure.

Keysight Technologies Inc. introduced a 50 GHz frequency extension to the M9393A PXIe performance vector signal analyzer (VSA), providing frequency coverage previously unseen in modular instrumentation. 

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a new 2W GaN driver amplifier from Qorvo. The TGA2958-SM is a packaged Ku-Band amplifier fabricated on Qorvo’s 0.15um GaN on SiC production process (QGaN15). Operating over a 13 to 18 GHz bandwidth, the TGA2598-SM delivers 2W of saturated output power with 20 dB large signal gain and > 25 percent power added efficiency.