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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that AT4 wireless has selected Agilent test equipment to provide certification testing services for LTE-Advanced/Carrier Aggregation (LTE-A/CA).

Striking new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope capture, for the first time, the remains of a recent supernova brimming with freshly formed dust. If enough of this dust makes the perilous transition into interstellar space, it could explain how many galaxies acquired their dusty, dusky appearance.

GATR Technologies announced that it has been awarded a 5 year indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army Project Manager, Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (PM WIN-T), Product Manager Satellite Communications (PdM SATCOM), Commercial SATCOM Terminal Program (CSTP) Office. This contract ceiling value of $440,045,436 will enable the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, and other Commands and Services to procure GATR’s WGS certified Inflatable Satellite Antennas (ISA) and associated hardware, services and support.

The Phoenix Company of Chicago is pleased to announce its Shanghai, China facility's quality management system is certified compliant with the requirements of ISO 13485:2003 (EN ISO 13485:2012) quality standard for manufacturers of medical devices.

Vaunix , a manufacturer of USB controlled and powered test equipment, has announced the addition of two new models to its family of LDA series digital attenuators. This product family now offers attenuators with up to 120 dB of programmable attenuation through 6,000 MHz.

CTS Electronic Component Solutions, a division of CTS Corp., and Microsemi Corp. built and tested a joint reference design to offer high quality products for applications requiring a master clock with a fan-out buffer that deliver ultra-low jitter without compromising performance.

Dover announced a plan to spin off certain DCT operating companies into a standalone publicly traded company named Knowles Corp.  This decision resulted in the split of several business units currently centralized under the Ceramic and Microwave Products (CMP) operating company.  While the capacitor companies Dielectric Laboratories (DLI), Novacap, Syfer, and Voltronics will be part of the spinoff, the microwave companies BSC Filters, Dow-Key, K&L, and Pole/Zero will remain with Dover, forming the Microwave Products Group (MPG).

Richardson RFPD Inc. announces immediate availability and full design support capabilities for a new wideband DC block from Wavelex.

Polar Instruments is a provider of signal integrity tools and high-speed test equipment and services. Headquartered in Great Britain, Polar Instruments has a 40+ year history of providing advance design, test, and repair technology to the electronics industry.

Doodle Labs is proud to announce the industry first Prism family of full duplex front-end subsystems (FES). The Prism FES dramatically improves the operating range; receive sensitivity and interference rejection characteristics of the wireless adapters used in many wireless communication standards like WLAN. These field proven front-end subsystems shorten the design and regulatory certification time and enable System Integrators to quickly introduce modems operating in different frequency bands.