Giga-tronics Receives $1.5 Million Order for Upgrade Kits; Announces Completion of $550,000 Private Placement

DUBLIN, Calif., March 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Giga-tronics Incorporated (OTCQB: GIGA) (the “Company”) today announced that it has received a $1.5 million order to provide mission critical upgrade kits to existing fielded Radar Threat Generation Systems.  The kits are necessary for the operational testing of advanced electronic warfare weapons systems. 

These new upgrade kits greatly enhance the capability and threat coverage of the currently fielded Coherent Streaming RF Playback System in terms of Instantaneous Bandwidth (IBW), Dynamic Range, Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), and Spectral Purity while maintaining or improving performance against very tight tolerances on Channel to Channel Timing Synchronicity, Phase Alignment and Coherence.

Armand Pantalone, Chief Technology Officer of the Company, commented “The performance and added capability afforded by our upgrade kit to this existing test system is truly state-of-the art; down to every single technical requirement including streaming rates, overall frequency coverage and instantaneous bandwidth, plus all other critical RF performance parameters.  Additionally, this upgrade improves the ease of use and better addresses Information Assurance concerns of our Military and Defense customers.”

Daniel Kirby, Vice President, Business Development stated, “We’re pleased to have had our upgrade kits selected for this US Navy program.  The kits’ improved capabilities will allow the warfighter to easily generate and playback the most current and rapidly emerging advanced threat signals necessary for the development, test and certification of their electronic warfare systems.  We remain committed to the continual development of new products and solutions in support of all levels of System Design, Development, Verification, Validation, and Operational Testing of Radar and Electronic Warfare systems.”

The Company also announced the closing on March 12, 2020 of a private placement of 146,667 unregistered shares of common stock at $3.75 per share for total proceeds to the Company of $550,000.   

About Giga-tronics Incorporated

Giga-tronics is a publicly held company, traded on the OTCQB Capital Market under the symbol "GIGA".  Giga-tronics produces RADAR filters and Microwave Integrated Components for use in military defense applications as well as sophisticated RADAR and Electronic Warfare (RADAR/EW) test products primarily used in electronic warfare test & emulation applications.

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