TEWKSBURY, Mass., 27 March 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) completed a system-level guided flight test of the new-production Patriot at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

WALLINGFORD, Conn., 23 March 2012. Times Microwave Systems in Wallingford, Conn., is introducing the EZ-400-BM BNC no-solder male (plug) straight connector and EZ-400-BM-RA BNC no-solder, male (plug) right angle connector for MR-400 low-loss coaxial cable for field installations of RF and microwave coaxial cable.

MCKINNEY, Texas, 22 March 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $45.5 million contract for the prototype build of the Ku Band Multi-Function RF System (MFRFS) Sense and Warn (S&W) radars for the U.S. Army.

ARLINGTON, Va., 21 March 2012. Shipboard radar experts at the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., are asking a select group of 18 U.S. defense contractors to turn their attention to advanced shipboard radar technology that reduces the number of radar antennas on Navy ships by using integrated, multi-function, multi-beam arrays.

MCLEAN, Va., 21 March, 2012. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI] announced it was awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) to provide a systems engineering, software development, test and evaluation, and program management services in support of ocean surveillance systems.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 18 March 2012. Military helicopter experts at the Boeing Co. Defense, Space & Security segment in Mesa, Ariz., are moving forward with the Apache Block III attack helicopter program with a $187 million contract Friday from the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., for development, integration and testing requirements on the Apache Block III program.

ARLINGTON, Va., 16 March 2012. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will brief industry 12 April 2012 on plans to apply recently developed X-ray technology to detecting home-made explosives at airport security checkpoints. Industry briefings will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the U.S. Transportation Security Administration Systems Integration Facility (TSA-TSIF) at Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va.

SANTA ANA, Calif., 16 March 2012. ITT Interconnect Solutions in Santa Ana, Calif., is introducing the rugged MIL-DTL 38999 series II connector for military communications systems like portable radios and military vehicular radios. The custom, low-cost connector comes with a contact for a printed circuit board and a rear seal for use in corrosive environments.

CRANE, Ind., 14 March 2012. U.S. Navy electronic warfare experts needed arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) -- electronic test and measurement instruments that generate repetitive or single-shot electrical waveforms -- for Navy and U.S. Marine Corps electronic warfare systems designed to detect and defeat improvised explosive devices (IEDs). They found their solution from the Aeroflex Inc. Test Solutions segment in Cupertino, Calif.

MUNICH, Germany, 14 March 2012. Test and measurement specialist Rohde & Schwarz in Munich, Germany, is adding functionality to the company's R&S SMU200A vector signal generator to enhance the unit's ability to test military radio communications equipment. The company's R&S SMU-K77 option enables the SMU200A to test military radios under harsh receiving conditions such as dynamic fading and multipath signal propagation.

HILLSBORO, Ore., 12 March 2012. TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (NASDAQ:TQNT), a global RF solutions supplier, has officially opened TriQuint International Pte Ltd, its new International Headquarters in Singapore. The company’s business outside of the U.S. now contributes roughly 70 percent of its annual revenue, according to Ralph Quinsey, president and CEO of TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.

HANSCOM AFB, Mass., 8 March 2012. Military radar experts at the Northrop Grumman Corp. Aerospace Systems segment in El Segundo, Calif., and partner Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment in El Segundo, Calif., will develop and install an advanced air-to-air and air-to-ground radar system for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 40 high-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) under terms of a $24.5 million contract announced Wednesday.

CHESTERFIELD, Mo., 7 March 2012. Executives of Laird Technologies Inc., an antennas and RF modules specialist in Chesterfield, Mo., are boosting their company's presence in wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) applications with their acquisition last week of rugged Wi-Fi products designer Summit Data Communications Inc. in Akron, Ohio.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 7 March 2012. Mercury Computer Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY) in Chelmsford, Mass., is introducing the rugged server-class Ensemble series 6U OpenVPX HDS6601 embedded computing blade based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 for military embedded systems such as radar signal processing; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); electronic warfare (EW); as well as for electro-optics and infrared (EO/IR) signal processing.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 4 March 2012. U.S. Navy aviation experts needed radar warning receivers, electronic warfare (EW) signal processors, and active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar systems for the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet carrier-based jet fighter-bomber. They found their solution from two divisions of the Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., 4 March 2012. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) in Santa Clara, Calif., is introducing four 1-GHz oscilloscopes to the company's line of InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series models for relatively high-bandwidth bench scope test and measurement applications.

WASHINGTON, 2 March 2012. Military shipboard electronics designers at the Raytheon Co. Integrated Defense Systems segment in San Diego will design and build the integrated shipboard electronics systems for the U.S. Navy's eleventh San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock warship, which will be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J., 1 March 2012. Pentek Inc. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is introducing the Cobalt model 71670 digital-to-analog converter (D/A) converter with on-board Xilinx Virtex-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for synchronous beamforming radar and multichannel transceiver systems. The Cobalt 71670 D/A converter module for RF and IF waveform playback delivers four independent analog outputs each through its own digital upconverter and 16-bit D/A with sampling rates to 1.25 GHz. The FPGA has factory-installed turnkey waveform playback functionality for output signal bandwidths to 250 MHz.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 26 Feb. 2012. Mercury Computer Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY) in Chelmsford, Mass., is introducing two Express Mezzanine Card (XMC) modules -- the Echotek series RFM-251-XMC tuner, and the wideband ACM-V-XMC digital transceiver -- to capture signals in real-time across a wide range of frequencies for electronic warfare (EW) and signals intelligence (SIGINT) applications. The XMCs are available in ruggedized versions.