Alpha Industries elects Dr. Charles A. Zraket to the board of directors.

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1995--Alpha Industries Inc. (AMEX Symbol: AHA) today announced the election of Dr. Charles A. Zraket to the board of directors increasing the number of directors from five to six.

Zraket is a trustee and prior president and chief executive officer of the MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit systems engineering and research corporation. Zraket spend more than 30 years at MITRE in various executive management and technical positions.

Zraket is currently a trustee of Northeastern University, Beth Israel Hospital and the Hudson Institute, and chairman of the Computer Museum. He is also a director of the Aspect Medical Systems Corp. and the Wyman-Gordon Corp., and a retired director of the Bank of Boston and Boston Edison.

Zraket's numerous memberships and affiliations include the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Council of Foreign Relations. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Northeastern University, and S.M.E.E. from M.I.T., and an honorary doctorate of engineering from Northeastern University.

Serving the needs of a broad range of commercial and defense markets, Alpha is a world-leading manufacturer of microwave and millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs), advanced microwave ceramic devices, dielectric resonator filters and subassemblies and semiconductor devices. Alpha is a supplier to all the major commercial wireless markets including cellular telephone and personal communications systems/networks (PCS/PCN).

CONTACT: Alpha Industries, Woburn

David J. Aldrich, 617/935-5150