Wavestream Corporation, a manufacturer of new-generation solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs), today announced it has completed delivery of initial orders for 196 Ka-band SSPAs for the U.S. Army’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 1 and is well underway on fulfilling follow-on orders for more than 240 additional units. The initial orders were fulfilled and delivered to General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies, which provides the Army with its new Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs).

“Wavestream is proud to be part of General Dynamics’ innovative solution for the WIN-T program,” said Chris Branscum, chairman and CEO of Wavestream. “These Ka-band systems will enable significant new bandwidth availability to the soldiers in the field.” Wavestream’s proprietary spatial power combining technologies require substantially less semiconductor content than traditional technologies to produce equivalent output power. The lower semiconductor content drives lower weight, smaller size, greater efficiency and lower cost. The product being delivered to General Dynamics is a 50 watt Ka-band SSPA with integrated block upconverter (BUC) which is part of a family of Ka-band products that includes a 12 watt Kaband Matchbox SSPA with integrated BUC.