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AT&T expects to be the first U.S. company to introduce mobile 5G service in a dozen markets by late 2018. The promise of mobile 5G is seemingly endless and we’re moving fast to make that promise a reality after the first 5G NR standards were recently approved.

AtlanTecRF has launched an expanded range of cable connector options for its standard cable assembly range. New connectors include SMA male straight, SMA male R/A, SMA female bulkhead, Type N male straight, N male R/A, N female bulkhead. These are in addition to the standard SMA male connectors already offered across the company’s cable range. These connector options can be applied to AtlanTecRF’s ASR, ASF and AFX cable series.

Saab has introduced the Sea Giraffe 4A Fixed Face, a fixed-panel configuration of the company’s active electrically scanned array radar family.

The fourth batch of Iridium^® NEXT satellites, built by Thales Alenia Space, has been successfully launched by Space X from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has accepted KEMET’s qualification of C0G and BP dielectrics to MIL-PRF-32535 ‘M’ and ‘T’ levels, making them the first BME MLCCs qualified for defense and aerospace applications.

Verizon, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies completed a trial of frequency-division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO on Verizon’s network in Irvine, California. The companies said this was the first successful FDD massive MIMO trial with a fully compatible customer device.