M/A-COM

Supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products for wireless telecommunications and defense applications. Microwave Associates began life in the summer of 1950 in a small rented space in Boston, Massachusetts by providing magnetrons to the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In 1978 Microwave Associates legally changed its name to M/A-COM, Inc. to reflect its involvement in the growing communications market. Today, M/A-COM is part of the growing family of Tyco International companies, and is a unit of Tyco Electronics, the largest business unit of Tyco International.