AFR Enterprises Blog - page 17

Established in 1922, the Raytheon Company is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. Until early 2007, it was involved in corporate and special mission aircrafts and is currently the world’s largest producer of guided missiles. Read more >>

Announced on February 2, 2015, the United States Navy awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract to provide the military branch with a further supply of its AN/AES-1 Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (or ALMDS). Northrop Grumman has already delivered 12 ALMDS pods to the U.S. Navy from an initial low rate production lot. The new contract will provide five more pod subsystems for ALMDS, as well as offer support equipment, spares, and technical help. Read more >>

As part of the Taiwan Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon radar upgrade program, Northrop Grumman has agreed to supply 142 SABR radars. By optimizing the radar system within the existing power and cooling allocations of legacy F-16s, Northrop will ensure the F-16’s relevance for several more decades. In February 2015, Northrop Grumman secured a contract from Lockheed Martin to begin production of their APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR). The APG-83 SABR is a multi-function active electronically scanned array (AESA) fire control radar. Read more >>

Headquartered in Lynnwood, Washington, ELDEC is a designer and manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical products catering to the civil and military aerospace markets. Founded in 1957, ELDEC is known industry-wide for its power conversion, sensing system, and true mass fuel flow technologies. As of 1994, ELDEC has been operating as a brand under Crane Aerospace. Crane employs a 2,800-strong workforce. ELDEC’s products are integrated onto the following major aerospace platforms: Read more >>

Based out of Painesville, Ohio, Meritec is an in-house designer and manufacturer of high-performance interconnect solutions, connectors and cable assemblies for the automatic test equipment (ATE), computer, telecommunications, medical, military, and aerospace markets. Established in 1966, Meritec now operates as the Electronic Connector and Cable Assembly Division of Ohio Associated Enterprises. Initially, the company only manufactured IC Test Clips. Sixty years later, Meritec possesses more than 180 patents. Being owned and operated solely by US interests without foreign investors, Meritec is ITAR capable.Meritec’s range of products include the following interconnect solutions: Read more >>

Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Harwin is a leading designer and in-house manufacturer of electrical interconnect products. Established in 1952, Harwin serves those in aircraft, space, electronic warfare, telecommunications, oil & gas, rail, and transportation industries with its large portfolio of over 30 thousand highly reliable interconnect solutions and PCB hardware items. Harwin’s extensive product range includes the following interconnects and hardware: Read more >>

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Echelon Corporation is a premier design house of open-standard control networking platforms for the smart grid, smart city, and smart building markets. Echelon’s technologies are integrated onto more than 100 million mobile devices, 35 million civilian homes, and 300 thousand commercial buildings. Echelon Corporation focuses on what it calls the “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIOT)—a broad term covering everything from building controls to smart street lights to IT-enabled industrial equipment. Since being founded in the Silicon Valley in 1988, Echelon has become embedded into many notable infrastructure projects: Read more >>

Though headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Eaton is a premier American power management firm that provides energy-efficient solutions to manage mechanical, electric, and hydraulic power. Established in 1911, Eaton operates as four business groups: the Electrical segment, the Hydraulics segment, the Vehicle segment, and the Aerospace segment. The Aerospace division operates out of Irvine, California, and is a global provider of jet fuel, advanced hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems, propulsion sub-systems, and cockpit interface and circuit protection apparatuses for the civil and military aerospace markets. For the fiscal year 2013, Eaton boasted sales of US$23 billion, with the Aerospace division covering about 13% of sales. Wildly prolific, Eaton has its testing systems, hydraulics, fuel systems, actuation controls, and air distribution systems integrated onto high-profile projects such as the Airbus A380 jetliner, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, and Rolls-Royce Trent XWB turbofan jet engine. Eaton’s array of aerospace solutions includes the following: Read more >>