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The U.S. Department of Defense has authorized the Army to proceed with a follow-on order of Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 (Inc 2). The Army awarded General Dynamics C4 Systems a delivery order valued at approximately $111 million to procure the next lot of WIN-T Inc 2 network nodes for additional brigade combat teams and division headquarters units. WIN-T Inc 2 is a central component of current and future capability sets.

AVX Corp., a leading manufacturer of advanced passive components and interconnect solutions, is showcasing its full range of MLO™ diplexers at the European Microwave Week Exhibition. Based on its patented multilayer organic high density interconnect technology, AVX’s MLO diplexers employ high dielectric constant and low loss materials to realize high Q printed passive elements, such as inductors and capacitors in multilayer stack ups. 

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., a leading RF solutions supplier and technology innovator, announced the release of new gallium nitride (GaN) transistors that offer superior gain, thermal management and efficiency for commercial and defense RF amplifier designs.  

RFMW Ltd. announces design and sales support for Sunny Electronics' new lineup of crystal oscillators (XOs) and voltage controlled crystal oscillators (VCXOs). The new FastClock™ series uses a new, state-of-the-art, factory-configurable silicon technology that allows for a wide choice of frequency, voltage and output combinations. Offered in an industry standard 5 x 7 mm and 5 x 3.2 mm package, the FastClock series offers customers the ultimate flexibility with delivery of high performance XOs and VCXOs in as little as five days. The FastClock series targets multiple markets including RF, fiber channel, server and storage, wireless repeaters, transponders, data acquisition, military communications, SONET/SDH/DEWM/ATM, Ethernet, digital network switching, test equipment and industrial controllers.

CST and MAGUS are developing new tools for linear antenna arrays including feed networks, to launch with the newest version of Magus' flagship product Antenna Magus.

ABI Research’s GNSS IC vendor matrix concluded that, overall, Qualcomm is the leading GPS IC vendor, followed by Broadcom in second place, and CSR in third. The vendor matrix compares companies on 15 criteria across the broader categories of GNSS Innovation and Implementation. Qualcomm’s domination of cellular GPS IC shipments courtesy of its embedded platform strategy, coupled with its strong IZat and Gimbal platforms means it is well placed to remain at the top in 2013/14.

A1 Microwave has recently developed a range of Ka-Band combiners for satellite communications transmitter applications. The 2 and 4 way combiners are used to combine the output power levels produced from transmitter amplifiers to achieve an overall high output level.

ThinkRF announced that five of its employees have been recognized for their participation in this year’s IEEE AUTOTESTCON. AUTOTESTCON is the world’s premier conference that brings together the military/aerospace automatic test industry and government/military acquirers and users to share new technologies, discuss innovative applications, and exhibit products and services.

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a pulse measurement option for its FieldFox handheld analyzers that is designed to further simplify radar field testing.

Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that it is partnering with Wistron NeWeb Corp., a leading ODM in Asia and supplier of connected home solutions for a number of branded OEMs.  WNC is leveraging Skyworks’ power management and ZigBee® front-end modules for several of their low-power RF devices that, among other things, allows consumers to turn lights on and off, automate appliances, monitor security cameras and control other things around the home from anywhere via their smartphone.