The Association of Old Crows (AOC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of their annual International Symposium and Convention with AOC 2023, held from December 11 to 13. After rotating through cities, including Washington, D. C., the symposium planted its roots in the D.C. area starting with the 50th-anniversary edition. Officially, this year’s event was held in National Harbor, Md., along the banks of the Potomac River in the beautiful Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. National Harbor is less than 10 miles from previous Washington locations and the “D.C. presence” was evident with uniformed service members and industry representatives exchanging ideas and looking at industry developments during all the exhibition hours.
AOC 2023 was billed as “the industry’s leading, three-day event, bringing together nearly 2,000 professionals from 30+ countries spanning industry, military and government sectors.” The theme of AOC 2023 was “Advancing EMS Superiority Through Strategic Alliances and Partnerships.” The need to quickly establish superiority in the electromagnetic spectrum has become an important part of battlefield strategy because of the decisive operational advantages that this capability affords in conflicts worldwide. AOC 2023 touted the “importance of integrating and synchronizing EMS operations in every warfighting domain across the entire range of military operations” as a clear imperative for warfighters and this was reflected by the broad representation of different branches of the military.
AOC is a bit of a whirlwind with nearly 180 exhibitors and more than 2800 attendees and it can be challenging to see everything the show has to offer. If you were unable to make the event, busy meeting with colleagues, participating in the technical program, or a combination of the above, you may not have had the opportunity to spend as much time in the exhibition as you would have liked. To augment your experience and provide a different perspective, Microwave Journal has put together this AOC 2023 show wrap-up. While this listing is by no means exhaustive, it provides insight into some of the things that caught our attention.
3H Communications Systems
3H Communication Systems is an AS9100 & ISO9001:2015 certified wireless infrastructure and microwave company that offers RF and microwave filter products and front-end solutions from DC to 50 GHz. 3H specializes in designing and manufacturing RF/MW solutions for defense, telecom, public safety, automotive, aerospace and medical applications. They were featuring all products, but focusing on their filter offerings, which include:
- Lumped component
- Ceramic
- Cavity
- High power multiplexers
The company also incorporates these filter technologies into connectorized and multi-function assemblies.
Adaptive Dynamics
Adaptive Dynamics Inc. (ADI) develops high performance, low SWaP, DSP-based RF interference mitigation technology for the DOD. ADI has extensive experience in RF IM technology and interference signal analysis, including the invention of third generation interference cancellation filter algorithms and the creation of various IM filter VHDL code implementations. ADI's IM filter technology is at TRL 9 and can be configured for the operationally relevant interference environment and rapidly integrated into any AMD-Xilinx or Intel/Altera-based FPGA with available resources.
Aethercomm
Aethercomm was still publicizing the acquisition by Frontgrade Technologies from the summer. Aethercomm designs and manufactures high-power RF amplifiers, subsystems and systems for use in radar, electronic warfare, communication systems, space, test and measurement and any other system application that requires high power in a compact package. The company has shipped over 300,000 RF amplifiers since its inception 20 years ago.
American Standard Circuits
American Standard Circuits (ASC) manufactures printed circuit boards on virtually any substrates, any size and any shape. Technology types include, but are not limited to RF/microwave printed circuit boards, rigid printed circuit boards, metal clad boards, flex, HDI and rigid-flex circuits for the medical, automotive, industrial, defense and aerospace markets in volumes from test and prototypes to large production orders.
Analog Devices Inc. (ADI)
ADI designs and manufactures complete signal chain solutions, modules, system-in-package (SiP) offerings and high performance integrated circuits. ADI is enabling the next generation of electronic warfare and radar systems with a complete DC to 100 GHz offering, while also providing an entire antenna-to-bits solution including the power portfolio. ADI was showcasing a wideband 2 to 18 GHz phased array for digital or hybrid beamforming applications that demonstrated the antenna-to-bits concept. The wideband transceiver included:
- ADAR4000/4001: 2 to 18 GHz 4 Channel/Single Beam Broadband Transmit/Receive True Time Delay Unit that contains a 7-bit time delay shifter, a 6-bit digital step attenuator, integrated equalization, integrated amplification, LNAs on the receiver and PAs on the transmitter.
- ADMFM2000: 0.5 to 32 GHz down-converter
- SiP ADMFM2001: 7 to 30 GHz up-converter
- SiP AD9084: Apollo MxFE Quad 6-Bit, 28 GSPS RF DAC and Quad, 12-Bit, 20 GSPS RF ADC ADF4371: Synthesizer with Integrated VCO
That demo unit helped highlight the breadth of ADI’s product portfolio, along with some of the applications that could be enabled with ADI’s products and expertise.
Annapolis Micro Systems
Annapolis Micro Systems maintains a full ecosystem of 3U & 6U OpenVPX 100 Gb Ethernet products for data digitization, digital signal processing and data recording applications. The company produces lasers (IR countermeasures), optical filters, active RF components, ADCs, ASICs, data recorders, digital RF memories, DSPs, RF receivers, signal analysis systems and conditioners. They were spotlighting the Annapolis WILD100 EcoSystem, with plug-n-play COTS boards. In a clear theme for the exhibition, Annapolis was touting its product adherence to a modular open systems approach (MOSA), with many aligned to SOSA™ and CMOSS.
Anritsu
Anritsu provides communications test and measurement solutions. These solutions address wireless, optical, microwave/RF and digital solutions for R&D, manufacturing, installation and maintenance applications, as well as multidimensional service assurance solutions for network monitoring and optimization. The company develops advanced solutions for emerging and legacy wireline and wireless technologies used in commercial, private, military/aerospace, government and other markets.
ARA
ARA is a C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests and installs antenna and RF technologies. They have a vast array of products for both military and civilian applications. Recent acquisitions have added technologies to complement their legacy portfolio and market focus. The ARA capabilities include electronic warefare, milcom, radar and satellite systems.
AvL Technologies
AvL Technologies produces satcom antennas and positioners for emerging markets. They provide solutions and support for satellite ground terminals for SNG, mobile broadband internet access, disaster relief, oil and gas data backhaul, and DHS customers throughout the world. AvL claims to offer the world’s largest range of satellite antennas for vehicle-mount, flyaway and fixed Earth station applications with sizes ranging from 60 cm to 5.0 m.
BAE Systems
With nearly 90,000 total employees, BAE Systems ranks as one of the largest defense companies in the world. The company delivers products and services for air, land, sea and space, as well as advanced electronics, intelligence, security and IT solutions and support services. BAE made two important announcements at the beginning of the week of AOC. In the first, they announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has announced approximately $35 million in initial funding for BAE Systems to modernize the Microelectronics Center (MEC) in Nashua, New Hampshire. This is the first funding announcement as part of the CHIPS and Science Act. BAE Systems’ MEC is a 110,000 sq. ft. DOD-accredited, semiconductor chip fabrication and foundry facility that produces technology for DOD applications. The MEC develops advanced semiconductor technologies to meet demanding military requirements. It is one of the only domestic defense-centric six-inch GaAs and GaN HEMT wafer foundries.
In the second statement, the company announced that BAE Systems, Babcock and Rheinmetall BAE System Land are joining forces to offer the ARCHER wheeled mobile artillery system to the UK Ministry of Defence as the replacement for the legacy AS90.
Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation
Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation (BNC) is a test, measurement and RF instrumentation manufacturer. BNC manufactures precision test, measurement and nuclear instrumentation. The company was showcasing its solutions and thoughts on radar, antenna testing and quantum computing applications. Their product range encompasses RF signal generators, synthesizers and phase noise analyzers.
CAES
CAES provides RF, microwave and mmWave solutions for a broad range of defense and commercial applications. These applications include missile defense radars, missile seekers, electronic warfare systems, communications systems and civil aviation radars. These specialized RF, microelectronic and digital solutions that CAES provides include SIGINT system integration services, COMINT systems, communications ESM systems and jammers, counter-UAS systems, direction-finding systems, ADCs, antennas/arrays, converters and mixers, couplers, FPGAs, frequency converters and synthesizers.
Cheshir Industries
Cheshir Industries is a start-up in the intriguing area of GRIN (gradient index) lens antennas. The technology relies on a material with a varying index of refraction that allows for continuous ray bending in the lens. The result is a conformal beamforming antenna system that can be easily integrated, is completely passive, so it has extremely low power dissipation, can develop wide-angle beam steering without beam squint, is capable of omnidirectional and high directivity patterns, can operate over very broad frequency ranges and is cost-effective. Cheshir was highlighting some of their work with Fortify to help advance this very interesting emerging technology.
CommTech TCI|ECS
CommTech is an SPX Technologies platform specializing in RF technologies for tactical data links, spectrum battlespace and spectrum monitoring and management services. CommTech has become a communications technology business within SPX. The CommTech platform continues to improve its capabilities with sister SPX divisions, ECS and TCI.
Communications & Power Industries (CPI)
Consisting of several acquisitions consolidated under the CPI name, the company provides microwave and RF, power and control solutions for defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications. CPI develops and manufactures products used to transmit and receive high-power microwave and RF signals and provide power and control for many applications including radar signals for navigation and location, deception signals for electronic countermeasures, voice, data and video signals for broadcasting, internet and other types of communications, power and control for medical diagnostic imaging and microwave energy for cancer radiation therapy.
Criteria Labs
Criteria Labs is a technical solution provider. They have an in-house engineering team that can address RF device and microelectronic engineering solutions for design, package assembly, test and up-screening to augment client capabilities or provide surge capacity. They focus these solution capabilities on high-reliability aerospace, defense, commercial semiconductor, automotive and medical applications. A scan of the products on display and their website indicates familiarity with InGaP, HBT, pHEMT and E-pHEMT amplifier designs into X-Band, along with RF limiters and switches.
Critical Frequency Design
Critical Frequency Design (CFD) provides state-of-the-art microwave and optical components/subsystems for the next-generation battle. CFD provides next-generation signal intelligence gathering and antijam at extremely high frequencies. Their solutions include anti-jamming, interference mitigation systems, active RF components, converters and mixers, digital RF memories, fiber-optic cable and connectors, frequency converters and synthesizers. They provide spectral monitoring from 0.05 to 40 GHz with the ability to expand these to 110 GHz and beyond. These next-generation solutions combat the growing capabilities of near-peer threats and detecting LPI radars.
Cubic Nuvotronics
Nuvotronics is Cubic’s microelectronics business. Nuvotronics developed a 3D micro coax technology that enables what they call the world’s smallest, lightest and most repeatable mmWave transmission and filtering structures. Nuvotronics targets space, test and defense communications applications with these structures.
CyberRadio Solutions
CyberRadio Solutions designs and manufactures products for EW, SIGINT, ELINT, COMINT and commercial wireless applications. The company’s RF/microwave and signal processing products enable the Network Defined Radio community to perform successful missions. CyberRadio hardware solutions combine RF performance, embedded signal processing and standard network data interfaces for worldwide connectivity. The company makes COMINT systems (communications ESM systems and jammers), ELINT systems, RF receivers, RF transmitters, RF tuners and signal generators.
dB Control
dB Control, a subsidiary of HEICO Corporation, designs and manufactures reliable TWT amplifiers, microwave power modules (MPMs), transmitters, high and low voltage power supplies and modulators for radar, electronic countermeasures (ECM), and data link applications. They offer ESM systems, antennas/arrays, converters and mixers, couplers, data recorders, MPM modules, power amplifiers, RF receivers, RF transmitters, TWTs and TWT assemblies.
Empower RF Systems
Empower RF Systems designs and manufactures high-power solid-state amplifiers with frequency coverage up to 10 GHz. Their air and liquid-cooled amplifiers incorporate GaN-on-SiC, LDMOS, MOSFET, GaAs and bipolar device technologies, along with power combining technologies. Empower RF offers a scalable liquid-cooled SSPA architecture for hundreds of kilowatts of pulse and CW power. This design targets electronic warfare, radar, directed energy, satcom, EMC and RF product testing applications. This architecture targets TWT replacement.
Glenair
Glenair supplies military/aerospace interconnect solutions. They focus on electrical interconnect systems, electromagnetic compatibility, ruggedized fiber optics interconnect, cable assembly, RF coaxial cable assemblies, high speed digital connectors and cable assemblies, EMI/RFI connectors and other technologies utilized in avionics, missiles and fly-by-wire controls.
Information Systems Laboratories
ISL was founded to use a rigorous scientific, physics-based and engineering approach to develop entirely new and often disruptive approaches that have a major industry impact, not just an incremental improvement. ISL participates in what they call the RF digital engineering space. They have RFview® software that does modeling and simulation to a family of products, RFview®-ModSim, RFview®-HWIL (hardware-in-the-loop) and RFview®-Training that supports the whole digital engineering chain.
iNRCORE
iNRCORE is a family of brands aimed at magnetics-based components and services that enable power and signals in extreme environments.
Intelligent RF Solutions (iRF)
iRF Solutions and its predecessor, M/A-COM SIGINT Products, have over 50 years of experience providing high performance microwave RF solutions for the SIGINT and EW communities. They have been known as Cobham SIGINT, TYCO SIGINT, M/A-COM SIGINT Products Group, Adams-Russell and Microtel. The goal at iRF is to be the preeminent RF products/solutions partner to the EW and Intel communities. They are launching a fresh series of scalable modular architectures for receive/transmit applications (SMART) product solutions. They have a broad array of down-conversion products. To this portfolio, they are adding up-conversion products. The SMART product line is taking them into advances in DSPs, digital FPGA-based architectures and RF microelectronics technology.
Keysight
One of the things that stood out at AOC was the linkage between design, emulation, simulation and test. This was very true at the Keysight booth where they had several demonstrations of their latest test equipment along with what they were doing from the emulation standpoint. Actual field testing, particularly at the final product level for military applications becomes a time-consuming and expensive process, so Keysight is trying to bring the linkage and value for design, emulation, simulation and testing as far toward the front of the development cycle as possible.
Knowles Precision Devices
Knowles Precision Devices is a specialty components manufacturer that provides RF and microwave filtering solutions from VHF to Ka-Band. The company can now deliver ceramic, lumped element and a wider range of cavity filters for lower frequency and/or high-power applications. They were showcasing 2 to 18 GHz highpass and bandpass filters in the booth.
Kratos Microwave Electronics Division
Kratos Microwave Electronics Division has developed a broad range of high performance microwave control components, sources and integrated assemblies. Kratos provides microwave solutions in frequencies up to 50 GHz. They specialize in microwave subassemblies incorporating RF/microwave solutions with advanced digital processing, utilizing SoC processing. They were showing their product line which includes COTS microwave products and custom capabilities for various platforms including missiles, military and commercial aircraft, radar, UAVs ships and submarines. Typical military and defense applications include EW systems, radars, missiles, UAVs, smart munitions/precision-guided munitions, GPS immune/navigation warfare, wireless communications, satcom homeland security, simulators and proximity and altitude sensors.
L3 Harris
With more than $17 billion in annual revenue and more than 50,000 employees in 100 countries, L3 Harris manned one of the bigger booths in the convention center. The company had personnel ready to talk about their autonomous systems, command and control, EW, ISR SIGINT and missile warning and defense solutions for space, air, land, sea, cyber and multi-domain applications.
Leonardo DRS
Smaller than L3 Harris, but still a global Tier 1 defense supplier, Leonardo DRS was focusing on its EW capabilities, given the theme of the conference. Their EW capabilities range from lightweight man-portable products that allow for fast signal collection in denied access areas at close range, to larger ground-based, stand-off systems that can capture multiple signals for analysis and offer a bigger picture of enemy operations over a longer period. Leonardo DRS also provides high performance SIGINT data recording collection systems and RF tuners and receivers that monitor the electromagnetic spectrum.
Lockheed Martin
With annual revenues of $66 billion, Lockheed Martin is in rarefied air as one of the largest, if not the largest, defense companies in the world. Their booth was somewhat spartan, befitting the classified and national security aspect of their work. Given the theme of the show, they had tailored their presence toward the technologies and platforms that enable monitoring and control of the electromagnetic spectrum in the air, on land, at sea and in cyberspace.
Marki Microwave
Marki Microwave was founded in 1991 to develop the best mixers in the industry. As the company has grown, its product portfolio has expanded, as well. They now offer a range of waveguide, connectorized, surface mount and bare die RF and microwave components. Marki was showcasing a representative portfolio of their high performance, broadband microwave products for the entire RF block diagram from DC to sub-THz frequencies.
MathWorks
MathWorks is a leading developer of mathematical computing software, known particularly for MATLAB and Simulink products. They had experts and applications people onsite to talk about how their tools can enable fundamental modeling and simulation for research and development.
Maury Microwave
The biggest news for Maury Microwave is its recently completed acquisition of Wireless Telecom Group. WTG brings brands Holzworth, Boonton and Noisecom under the Maury roof. The demonstration in the Maury booth did an excellent job of showing how the individual strengths of both companies can mesh for a powerful measurement, simulation and analysis tool.
Menlo Micro
With its Ideal Switch technology, Menlo Micro has created an entirely new category of electronic switches. The Ideal Switch combines the benefits of electromechanical and solid-state switches. The Ideal Switch can bring more than 99 percent reductions in size, weight, power and cost to dozens of industries such as medical, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, consumer electronics, industrial IoT and test and measurement. The booth had a great display of how a Menlo device performed in a power electronics application versus the incumbent technologies and how that translated into power and cost savings. The company was showcasing a wide range of the different configurations and applications that they have for their Ideal Switch.
Mercury Systems
With one of the larger booths on the show floor, Mercury Systems had quite the story to tell. Mercury Systems considers itself a technology company that delivers commercial innovation to rapidly transform the global aerospace and defense industry. The company has an impressive list of capabilities and technologies that have allowed it to develop a broad product portfolio. The single and multi-function components were on display, but the message from the company was that they are heading up the integration chain, but they are not beholden only to their products to do that. They are quite proud of their products and they feel that those products differentiate well just on performance, but they will make the “make/buy” decision for the higher-level assemblies that they are designing. Their tagline is “From data to decision, silicon to systems.”
Metamagnetics
Metamagnetics is developing next-generation materials to integrate them into RF and microwave components. Their product portfolio consists of auto-tune filters, self-biased circulators and isolators and non-linear transmission lines.
Microwave Specialty Company
Microwave Specialty Company designs and manufactures antennas ranging in frequency from 100 MHz to 60 GHz. MSC antennas find use primarily on telemetry, UAV datalink, threat emitter/simulation and radar platforms.
NI
Formerly National Instruments and now NI, the company was talking about their modular, agile and scalable approach to radar and EW design and test can rapidly deploy advanced capabilities and improve mission readiness. NI technical experts were demonstrating things like common radar and EW test requirements including realistic test scenarios, how to remain flexible to test and adapt to new threats, along with delivering integrated radar and EW capabilities on a tight schedule.
Northrop Grumman
Checking in with 2022 revenue of nearly $37 billion from 95,000 employees, Northrop Grumman is certainly one of the big Tier-1 defense contractors. Like the other large defense contractors in attendance, Northrop Grumman designs, develops and supports a broad range of end products and capabilities for the air, cyber, land, sea and space domains.
Ophir RF
For more than 30 years, Ophir RF has been designing and manufacturing high-power RF and microwave solid-state and TWT amplifier systems and modules for defense applications, EMC and test and measurement applications. Their portfolio includes broadband, multi-octave amplifiers from 10 KHz to 40 GHz. CW power ranges up into kilowatts and pulsed power into the tens of kilowatts.
Photonis Defense
Photonis Defense provides technologies and products around power tubes, microwave TWTs, night vision and digital vision solutions. While the majority of the products are used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Energy, some of their products are also used by other federal, state and local agencies and they also sell night and digital vision technologies to the commercial market. Photonis Defense was founded in 1942 and they offer a variety of customized traveling wave tubes and microwave power modules for electronic warfare, signal jamming and satcom.
Q Microwave
Q Microwave specializes in subsystems and filters with a variety of functions including switch filter banks, filter/amplifiers, frequency conversion, multiplexing and individual filters. Their products utilize lumped element, cavity/combline and ceramic resonator filter topologies from 20 MHz to 40 GHz. Their packaging options range from fully integrated laser-welded assemblies to individual microstrip filters.
Quantic Electronics
Quantic Electronics has brought together some of the most recognizable electronics component companies and technology leaders in RF and microwave, capacitors and resistors, magnetics, sensing devices and more. In their RF and microwave business, they produce a comprehensive portfolio from components to integrated assemblies that are all available with rapid prototyping. Key products include active and passive filters, switches and LNAs, control products, beamformers, couplers and calibration modules, crystal oscillators and frequency sources and synthesizers and custom IMAs. Quantic’s broad array of capacitor technologies range from multilayer polymer film capacitors and multilayer ceramic capacitors and assemblies to hybrid wet tantalum capacitors. Their capacitors can be found in defense, aerospace and energy applications. The Quantic resistor portfolio includes thin-film technologies. They provide an OhmegaPly® product that they claim eliminates discrete resistors for significant cost savings and a TCR® product.
RFHIC U.S. Corporation
RFHIC was founded in South Korea in 1999 as a GaAs component manufacturer with early market penetration aimed at satellite applications. Over the next decade, the company branched out into GaN-on-SiC technology and they have become a force in the RF GaN wireless infrastructure and defense markets. RFHIC U.S. Corporation was established in 2012 to address the need for high-performing, efficient and cost-effective power amplifiers for the U.S. Military market.
Rohde & Schwarz USA
Rohde & Schwarz is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of test and measurement, secure communications, monitoring and network testing and broadcasting equipment. Incorporated in the United States in 1978, Rohde & Schwarz USA has a large team of sales and application engineers throughout North America with regional offices in Maryland, Texas, California and Oregon. With a service facility in Columbia, Maryland, the local representatives were discussing how surveillance, identification, targeting, control, intelligence gathering and self-protection systems are becoming ever more complex and integrated. They were showcasing equipment and discussing how the capabilities of test and measurement systems were evolving to meet advances across the entire spectrum of radar and electronic warfare technology.
RTX
In the middle of 2023, three years after merging with United Technologies Corporation, Raytheon Technologies rebranded as RTX. RTX claims more than 180,000 global employees and 2022 sales of $67 billion. From Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon businesses, RTX advances aviation, integrated defense systems and developing next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing.
Samtec
Samtec manufactures electronic interconnect solutions for the entire transmit/receive signal path. Samtec offers RF solutions up to 110 GHz. Precision RF solutions include cable assemblies, cable and board connectors. The company also has a broad portfolio of board-to-board, power, edge card, backplane and industry-standard connectors. In addition to RF cables, Samtec makes high speed, panel and I/O, IDC and FFC, discrete wire and industry-standard cables. The Samtec Optical Group designs and supports micro-optical engines, active optics assemblies and passive optics panel solutions. Samtec’s FireFly™ Micro Flyover System™ is an inside-the-box interconnect solution with performance to 28 Gbps and 850 nm VCSEL array technology. Optical cable systems also include PCIe®.
Signal Hound
Signal Hound designs and manufactures affordable and compact RF spectrum analyzers, signal generators, software and accessories. They were showcasing their BB60D, the newest real-time 6 GHz analyzer in their lineup. Signal Hound’s differentiator is to design and deliver accurate and thorough RF analysis measurements at a fraction of the cost of typical high-end test equipment. They had an impressive array of their products on display.
Spectrum Control
Spectrum Control touts itself as a global leader in managing and controlling the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectrum Control’s capabilities range from EMI protection to advanced RF/microwave signal conditioning and processing including Inmet and Weinschel brand products and EMI protection from the original Spectrum Control and Spectrum Microwave teams. For more than 70 years the company has developed reliable, high performance technologies for powering and conditioning RF and microwave signals and protecting electronic equipment from electromagnetic interference. Spectrum Control has developed a portfolio of products that they call SCi blocks, a family of digitally enabled plug-and-play RF blocks for electronic warfare and other defense applications. The open, modular family includes three levels of integration: Systems-in-Package, RF “sticks” and SOSA-aligned OpenVPX modules. The new RF tuner transceiver stick is digitally configurable and tunable with total spectrum awareness from 20 MHz to 18 GHz for up to 16 GHz of contiguous spectral coverage and 2 GHz of instantaneous bandwidth in a 13 x 2 cm package. Sticks can also be combined in an OpenVPX package in any combination of eight Tx or Rx channels.
Stellant Systems/Stellant PST
Stellant Systems, formerly L3Harris Electron Devices and Narda Microwave West manufactures critical spectrum and RF power amplification systems for space, defense, medical and scientific and industrial missions for both domestic and international customers. Regardless of the name on the masthead, the company has been providing RF amplification systems for over 65 years. They provide military-qualified high-power TWTs, active and passive RF components and microwave power modules (MPMs). Stellant recently acquired Comtech PST, folding them into the company as Stellant PST. PST manufactures high-power solid-state amplifiers and high-power control components. The amplifiers range from 1 MHz to 18 GHz with power levels ranging from 10 watts to multi-kilowatts. Typical applications include electronic warfare, radar, IFF, military communications, satcom and EMI/EMC testing.
SWISSto12
Swissto12 manufactures RF payloads, systems and products for telecommunications, surveillance and radar applications across the aeronautic industry, including ELINT and SIGINT antenna subsystems. The company’s RF systems and products benefit from proprietary and patented aerospace-qualified 3D-printing technologies that Swissto12 uses to deliver lightweight, compact, high performance competitive RF functionality.
Tektronix
Tektronix is a well-known name in the test and measurement field. They provide equipment for almost every industry and application. Given the location and theme of AOC 2023, they were focusing on integrated test and measurement tools to help military and government personnel design and validate electronic tools for field operations. Tektronix offers a wide range of hardware and software built for mission-critical DC and RF systems, such as military comms, RADAR and electronic warfare. These solutions range from algorithm prototyping to automated testing to ongoing maintenance.
Teledyne Defense Electronics (TDE)
Serving Defense, space and commercial sectors worldwide, Teledyne Defense Electronics offers custom and off-the-shelf RF and microwave solutions. TDE, a consolidation of several acquisitions and capabilities, develops products for electronic warfare, missiles, radar, satcom, space and test and measurement applications. One of those entities, Teledyne Microwave Solutions, provides a broad range of active and passive RF/MW components and subassemblies where size, weight and performance are critical.
Teledyne LeCroy
Teledyne LeCroy manufactures advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance what they call "Time-to-Insight." Faster time-to-insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets.
Trans-Tech
First and foremost, Trans-Tech wanted everyone to know that they still exist, despite not being affiliated with Skyworks any longer. Trans-Tech provides customized ceramic, ferrite, magnetic and dielectric material solutions. They also provide ceramic bandpass filters, coaxial resonators and inductors, circulators and isolators. With control over the materials, Trans-Tech is positioned to optimize performance by adjusting the material properties.
Werlatone
Werlatone supplies high-power, broadband passive RF components that include directional couplers, combiners and dividers. The company maintains a catalog of standard products but claims that nearly two-thirds of its sales come from custom designs.
See the full AOC 2023 Photo Gallery here.