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Micro Harmonics, a small business specializing in ferrite-based millimeter wave components, announced the availability of its initial circulator product, the YC148, covering 58 to 64 GHz. The company is also extending its line of Faraday rotation isolators from WR12 (60 to 90 GHz) to WR3.4 (220 to 325 GHz). Prototypes of WR5.1, WR4.3 and WR3.4 designs are being evaluated and will be released by summer.

Raytheon was awarded a $136 million production contract for the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), the U.S. Navy’s next-generation integrated air and missile defense radar. The award is an option under the current low rate initial production contract and will fund the fourth “ship set” of radar mission equipment.

T-Mobile US and Sprint Corporation announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction at a fixed exchange ratio of 0.10256 T-Mobile shares for each Sprint share or the equivalent of 9.75 Sprint shares for each T-Mobile US share.

Market analyst Earl Lum forecasts macrocell radio transceiver (TRx) shipments will more than double this year (2018), reflecting initial 5G massive MIMO deployments. TRx shipments supporting all wireless standards grew 24 percent in 2017.