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WJ Communications, Inc.
Watkins-Johnson Company, commonly referred to as Watkins-Johnson or W-J,
was a designer and manufacturer of electronic equipment, founded in 1957 by
Dean A. Watkins and H. Richard Johnson in Palo Alto (California, USA).
The company produced a range of UHF, SHF and EHF parts, but is best
known for its range of surveillance and test receivers,
many of which were used
by government agencies.
From 1995 onwards, parts of W-J were sold to other companies, until finally
in 2008 the remaining WJ Communications was acquired by TriQuint Semiconductor
[1].
TriQuint was merged on 1 January 2015 with RF Micro Devices, under the new name
Qorvo, Inc. The former company Communication Electronics Inc. (CEI) – which
became a division of Watkins-Johnson in 1967 – was sold to Marconi North America
in August 1999, complete with the W-J telecommunications product line. The
companies were bought by Diagnostic Retrieval Systems (DRS) in 2003,
which itself was acquired by the Italian multinational Finmeccanica
in 2008. After a global restructuring in 2016, Finmeccanica was
renamed Leonardo, and the DRS business — which includes the
Watkins-Johnson legacy and its product line — continued as
Leonardo DRS.
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