Mission Critical Solutions and Services

THE INDUSTRY’S MOST TRUSTED AND RELIABLE ELECTRONIC SOLUTIONS FOR AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE

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WHO WE ARE

CAES technology pioneers the future of aerospace and defense electronics and underpins many of the world’s most critical missions. Over the course of nearly 100 years, we have become the largest provider of analog and radiation-hardened technology to the United States aerospace and defense industry.

Quality and Reliability are built into everything we do.

Our engineers are at the forefront of military and aerospace innovation. We help make the world safer by creating key technologies integrated into missile defense radars, electronic warfare systems, and missile seekers that protect warfighters, datalinks that keeps them connected, and creating civil aviation radar installations that ensure the safety of the flying public.

Our radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant microelectronics are designed to withstand the harshest operating environments and can be found in nearly all of the world’s leading spacecraft – from high-throughput commercial communications satellites, earth observation satellites and manned space, to high-priority national security missions, deep space exploration to Mars and beyond and the latest new space constellations. In addition, our expansive technology portfolio enables medical devices, industrial equipment and other applications that require high-reliability microelectronics.

WHAT WE DO

CAES accelerates the pace of customer innovation by leveraging an extensive IP library and high-reliability, radiation-hardened RF, microwave and millimeter wave (mmW) technologies.

Our capabilities include Advanced Engineering Solutions, Manufacturing Solutions and Testing and Tuning services that are uniquely conceived to overcome our customers’ toughest design challenges. Whether you are specifying a component or complete subsystem, our customizable and highly collaborative engineering capabilities meet and exceed customer size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements by optimizing thermal cooling, enhancing power and I/O density and reducing board area.

As a proven, reliable partner throughout the entire lifecycle of your most ambitious, mission-critical programs, CAES engages at every phase of product development by providing design, manufacturing, assembly, test and advanced packaging services. Our Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) team works closely with our customer-partners to provide everything from circuit card design and assembly to complete turnkey solutions and testing.

In partnership with you, we are striving to help humanity leap forward through exploration, agility, speed of innovation and a shared vision for the future of mankind.

Pioneering Advanced Electronics for the World’s Most Critical Missions

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CAES Leverages Space and Military Expertise for Commercial Applications

CAES is a fab-independent semiconductor supplier and our team of mixed-signal engineering experts has more than 150 man-years of IC design experience in the commercial electronics market delivering a range of RF and microwave components, modules and subsystems, as well as analog, mixed-signal IC and ASIC design services. CAES offers a full suite of device manufacturing and test capabilities, including debug, environmental testing and qualification, failure analysis and backend assembly and packaging.

We provide radiation-tolerant ASICs, memory, microprocessors, interconnects and power ICs for a range of advanced medical imaging applications for the Healthcare Market; Secure point-of-sale terminals, wireless and telecom (including 5G testing), laboratory test equipment and precision electronic blasting for the Indistrial and Mining Industry; Flat plate antennas to the Commercial Aviation Radar Market.

CAES Enables New Era of Space and Satellite Technology

CAES is a leading developer of mission-critical technologies for commercial, civil, military and intelligence-gathering spacecraft. We helped to pioneer the earliest days of spaceflight, from the historic Apollo missions to today’s constellation satellites. Our technology has been designed into everything from life support and propulsion systems to microwave electronics and satellite communications equipment.

With nearly a half-century of expertise designing and manufacturing key components, modules and subsystems for space missions, the CAES legacy is unequaled in the industry. From Apollo

to Orion, from ISS to the lunar gateway, from Sojourner to Perseverance, from the early commercialization of space to the ultra-high-throughput communications satellites currently being deployed, our innovative approach to technology development has enabled some of history’s most iconic missions. CAES continues to develop new components, modules, subsystems, IP and packaging to meet the performance, power, reliability and budgetary requirements of Constellation Satellites and New Space missions.

CAES Communications, Navigation and Identification Solutions Protect the Warfighter

CAES Communications, Navigation and Identification (CNI) technologies support a wide variety of systems, enabling clear narrowband communications when warfighters need it most by providing precision situational awareness and threat identification. CAES’ robust designs and manufacturing techniques help assure secured connectivity during your most critical missions.

CAES CNI technologies extend system sensitivity and range, enabling warfighters to identify threats at a distance and respond appropriately. An emphasis on low size, weight, and power (SWaP) allows us to design innovative solutions that work within challenging form factors. Our

broad portfolio of solutions across a wide frequency range ensures a proper technical fit for every mission.

From high frequency through millimeter wave, our products and services ensure that your system can address any need, anywhere, anytime, all the time.

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CAES Technologies and Services Enable the World’s Leading Radar Systems

For more than 40 years, CAES has provided antennas, RF and microwave components and subsystems for a variety of advanced Radar applications. Our robust design and manufacturing capabilities ensure reliability while an emphasis on low size, weight and power (SWaP) with chip-scale, high-density packages enable innovative solutions for challenging applications.

A broad portfolio of intelligent, adaptable solutions across a wide frequency range ensures a proper technical fit for every mission. From high-frequency through millimeter wave, operating across the land, sea, air and space domains, our products and services can address any Radar

need, from air traffic control, to synthetic aperture Radar, fire control, and space situational awareness. CAES also supports early warning Radar using Ka-Band and W-Band frequencies, incorporating our broad technology portfolio and an integrated aperture-to-data architecture.

CAES Arms Warfighters with Advanced Missile Technologies

CAES has 60+ years of missile and guided projectile design and has shipped more than 250,000 critical subsystems across dozens of missile platforms. CAES advanced munitions technology supports complex weapon guidance, navigation, control, target detection/fuzing and actuation in the harshest of environments, from ballistic high-shock (>100,000g) to space-based, radiation-hardened (RadHard) subsystems.

CAES state-of-the-art RF, microwave and millimeter wave subsystems are integrated into compact form factors that optimize size, weight and power (SWaP). Our technology suite includes

everything from missile-seeker sensors and high-power transmitters, receivers and transceivers, to telemetry and GPS antennas, RadHard application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and mission processors.

Our experience extends to hypersonic missiles and hypervelocity projectiles in the areas of high-temperature antenna, millimeter wave missile sensors, datalink and telemetry subsystems and miniature precision motors and actuators.

CAES Redefines the Digital Battlefield with Advanced Electronic Warfare Solutions

Fusing Electronic Warfare (EW) products with today’s advanced technology and decades of engineering, production, and sustainment experience, CAES customers are able to outpace their adversaries using the electromagnetic spectrum and directed energy. Our high-power solutions provide the latest in communications jamming capabilities giving customers access to more of the microwave and millimeter-wave frequency spectrum that they require to detect and deter enemy attacks.

CAES offers a variety of components, modules and subsystems for Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection, Electronic Surveillance, and Electronic Warfare Support. This includes a range of pod-based, solid-state and travelling-wave tube transmitters, amplifiers, antennas, power supplies, controls and cooling subsystems, spread spectrum technologies, radio emissions control (EMCON) and low observability stealth technology, Radar Warning Receivers (RWR), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) to analyze intercepted frequencies and identify traits such as frequency, bandwidth, modulation and polarization.

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Advanced Engineering SolutionsLeveraging more than 50 years of product know-how and engineering experience, CAES provides specialized, mission-critical solutions for electronic warfare, communication, navigation and identification (CNI), guided munitions, radar, space, security and surveillance, medical and commercial applications.

CAES has a full suite of products and engineering services that have enabled many of the biggest technology breakthroughs in space exploration, avionics and defense electronics. Our engineering teams have substantial experience designing standard and highly customized components, modules and sub-systems supporting both new and heritage space applications as well as land-, sea- and air-based military systems, commercial aircraft, medical devices and industrial equipment.

Target applications include RF electronics, antenna systems, radiation-hardened microelectronics, motion control solutions, electronic warfare subsystems, stabilized gimbals and positioners and communication and data link systems.

CAES Design and Manufacturing Capabilities

Additive Manufacturing

CAES has a unique capability in 3D printing-based Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the Aerospace and Defense industry. CAES has access to patented and flight-proven design and manufacturing techniques that allow us to reduce size and weight while still achieving RF performance comparable to traditional subtractive manufacturing.

Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) Optimization

CAES is the industry’s leading partner for SWaP optimization. CAES provides high performance, compact, rugged RF filters for radar, electronic warfare, space and missile applications. Our offerings include Small Custom Form Factors, Alumina Thin Film, Chip-and-Wire Bare Die.

High Frequency

CAES is an industry leader in custom and off-the-shelf designs for RF, microwave and mmW bands for the radar, missile, space and communications markets as well as solutions for the electronic warfare market. CAES meets exacting requirements for both benign and harsh environments. Our frequency expertise covers the low 100-MHz range to W-Band.

High Reliability

CAES has been providing high reliability (HiRel) design, manufacturing and support services to the world’s defense, space and satellite industries for more than 60 years. Offering a complete portfolio of HiRel solutions, CAES serves as the foundation on which many high-availability and safety-critical applications are built.

Manufacturing Solutions CAES provides high-performance RF and electronic manufacturing for mission-critical Aerospace and Defense applications. Our capabilities include solder, assembly, thin film substrates and metal fab; automated processes such as pick-and-place, wire bonding and optical inspection; environmental screening; plating and etch; paint; laser seal and design-for-manufacturing.

CAES manufacturing facilities offer anechoic chambers, wedge wire bonding, conformal coating and clean room operations. Certifications include MIL-PRF-38534, IPC and NASA, Nadcap for plating and DMEA Trusted Accreditation.

Automated Assembly

CAES offers a full array of electronic and RF design and assembly manufacturing services. Our factories are capable of manufacturing complex microwave and mmW assemblies and produce nearly 10,000 modules each month. Cost is reduced do to the high level of automation in our assembly processes.

Advanced Microelectronics Packaging, Test, and Modeling

CAES offers advanced microelectronics packaging, modeling and testing solutions for third-party ASICs and commercially-sourced die. CAES supports a large range of services from rapid, small-batch prototyping for

validation and characterization to full-volume production in our DMEA-accredited facility. We provide support for low-volume prototyping and flight quantities to high-volume manufacturing of more than 100,000 units per month.

Build to Print/Build to Spec

Accredited by the U.S. Department of Defense as a Trusted Source and a Category 1A supplier of assembly services, CAES offers build-to-print and build-to-specification services such as high-volume automated circuit card assembly, COTS and commercial up-screening for high-reliability applications, packaging, and qualified assembly and test services meeting the requirements of MIL-PRF-38534 Class H and K.

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High Power Transmit

CAES supports high-power system requirements while effectively balancing SWaP and thermal management for advanced electronic warfare, radar, communications and other applications. CAES provides a multitude of microwave and mmW technologies including a variety of antennas and high power aperture solutions ideal for military, space and commercial avionics applications.

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Electronic Manufacturing Solutions (EMS)

CAES has a broad range of EMS offerings that support standard product designs and custom microelectronic solutions serving military, aerospace, medical and industrial markets. Complete turnkey solutions including environmental and radiation testing and failure analysis, device screening, packaging solutions, and rapid prototype IC assembly with full ITAR compliance.

Microwave through Millimeter Wave Solutions

CAES has extensive expertise manufacturing complex microwave and mmW solutions for electronic warfare, radar and other mission critical needs adhering to established industry and military-specified standards up to and including MIL-STD-883.

CAES capabilities include thin-film substrate and package

manufacturing and a suite of automated services, including pick-and-place, wire bonding, optical inspection, hermetic sealing, environmental screening, painting and electrical test over temperature.

Systems Engineering

CAES offers complete systems engineering services for the development of advanced technology applicable to missile seekers, datalinks, electronic warfare systems, and next generation radar and communications systems.

CAES provides aerospace and defense prime contractors and the government with best-in-class advanced systems engineering, and volume manufacturing expertise, combining both digital and analog functionality and thus allowing for more effective engagements earlier in the life cycle of a program.

Testing & TuningCAES offers an extensive infrastructure and support staff dedicated to expedient and accurate product testing and tuning solutions. This includes the design and implementation of automated test equipment, environmental and dynamics testing, TID radiation testing, high power testing (featuring radiated testing) and antenna radiation pattern and gain measurements.

Automated Testing

CAES capabilities include hundreds of automated RF SMART™ test stations in addition to automation software and processes that minimize test time and maximize first-pass yield.

Environmental and Dynamics Testing

CAES offers comprehensive test laboratory services, including environmental, dynamic and vibration testing and analysis, that address commercial, military and aerospace requirements for applications including engineering design verification, environmental stress screening, reliability verification and qualification testing.

High Power Test Solutions

CAES engineers are experts in the design and implementation of cooling techniques for high-density, tightly-packaged electronic assemblies. CAES couples this capability with specialized test equipment, including high-gamma, load-pull resources, and unique, high-radiated-power, ferrite-lined environmental test chambers.

Antenna Test Ranges

With both indoor anechoic chambers and outdoor pattern test ranges, all of which provide real-time, digitally-captured data, CAES quickly and accurately characterizes all aspects of antenna performance from high frequency through W-Band. Our suite of anechoic chambers provides broad capabilities for far-field radiation pattern and radar cross-section (RCS) measurements, near-field scanning and high-power testing.

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CAES Products

CAES is a leading designer and manufacturer of antennas and antenna arrays. We are a premier supplier of advanced antenna systems to the U.S. and NATO governments, commercial integrators and manufacturers.

Equipped with advanced electronic modeling simulation tools, highly automated anechoic chambers, in-house antenna test ranges and extensive environmental test capabilities CAES provides solutions for a variety of EW platforms and applications including airborne, shipboard, space, vehicular and terrestrial.

The CAES antennas portfolio encompasses the high-frequency to the millimeter wave (mmW) band with an extensive product line of advanced antennas and antenna arrays customized to withstand the most challenging environments.

Antennas

• Arrays• Blade• Conformal

• Dipole• Helix• Horn/Notch

• Monopole• Patch• Reflector

• Sinuous • Spiral• UHF

CAES develops high-reliability, high-voltage, mixed-signal ASICs customized for the harshest environments, including space as well as medical radiology, industrial, EW and security and surveillance applications.

In addition to on-site design, packaging, testing, and reliability analysis, CAES analog and digital designers provide best-in-class data conversion, signal conditioning and device modeling,

CAES ASIC services include turnkey design and manufacturing; stacked die, flip-chip and other advanced packaging; automated circuit card assembly and a full suite of device test and debug capabilities, including environmental testing and failure analysis.

ASICs

With nearly 500 custom cable designs and 5,000 custom and standard connectors, CAES provides cable systems for radar (airborne, ground, shipboard and missile), as well as EW, CNI, C4ISR, satellite communications and laboratory test equipment covering broad frequency ranges from DC to 60 GHz and featuring unmatched electrical performance, reliability, mechanical strength and extremely low loss. Qualification testing is performed to MIL-T-81490, MIL-DTL-87104 and customer-defined specifications.

• Adapters• Commercial Aviation

• Electronic Warfare• Laboratory

• Space• Special Applications

• Pedestals• RF Rotating Subsystems• Rotary Joints

CAES is a leading provider of custom and standard motion control products for military, aerospace, robotics and communications applications. Our motion control portfolio includes high-reliability, low jitter and high radiation tolerance products designed for harsh environments such as vacuum, extreme temperature, shock and vibration.

Motion Control

• Actuators and Mechanisms• DC Motors• Electronic Controllers

• Space Flight Gimbals and Controllers

CAES has a legacy of supplying high-performance power and power conversion products to the aerospace market, providing ground power to fighter jets and other aircraft and assisting with applications such as aircraft engine starting. Our product line-up includes battery electronics that provide highly accurate autonomous cell balancing, which optimizes lithium-ion battery charging battery capacity and lifespan.

• Battery Electronics• DC-to-DC Converters• Motor and Resolver Controls

• Power Management ICs• Pulse-Width Modulators• Voltage Regulators/Supervisors

Power Devices and Power Conversion

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Cable Assemblies

• Directed Energy Positioners• Multi-axis Gimbal Platforms

• Precision Stabilized Positioners• Weapons Positioners

CAES precision positioning systems are deployed in a range of imilitary land, sea, and airborne applications including electronic surveillance/radar; SATCOM; EW/DF; directed energy; EO tracking, surveillance and instrumentation; satellite laser ranging; shipboard EW/ELINT and weapons launchers. Our military Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products incorporate Line of Sight (LOS) stabilization with modular designs and sizes to accommodate a range of sensor payloads ranging from five to 2,000 pounds.

Precision Positioning Systems

RF Assemblies & Subsystems

CAES integrated RF assemblies and subsystems cover narrow and wideband frequencies up through W-Band and are used in sea, air and space platforms for radar, EW, missile, communications, and 5G test and measurement applications.

• Data Links and Telemetry• Digital Receiver Exciter• Frequency Converters• Frequency Generation• High-Power Front-End Protection

• Interferometers• Power Amplifiers• Preselectors and Switch Filter Banks• Signal Conditioning and RF Distribution• Transmit/Receive

CAES RadHard and HiRel components have been widely adopted for space and harsh environments such as medical, industrial, networking and telecommunications. For satellite designers looking for components that are mission-matched and offer affordable reliability, CAES RadHard solutions provide the right mix of high reliability and affordability.

RadHard / HiRel Components

• Analog• Computing• Interconnect• Logic

• Memory• Power Devices and Power Conversion• RF Solutions for Space• Single Board Computers

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RF, Microwave & mmWave Components

CAES has a broad portfolio of commercial and military grade RF, microwave and mmW components used in radar, EW, missiles, space, CNI, test and commercial wireless systems. Products are available as standard catalog offerings or customized to meet your exact performance specifications.

• Mixers• MMICs• Modulators• Phase Shifters

• Couplers (RF)• Detectors• Filters and Multiplexers• Limiters

Rotary Joints

CAES rotary joint products can be found across many applications ranging from submarine periscopes and shipboard avionics to ground-based, vehicle-mounted, airborne and space-based systems, including commercial satellite radar, and the Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Our comprehensive testing capabilities are completed in-house at a single 106,000-sq.-ft. site that is certified to ISO9001:2008 and AS9100 Revision B in accordance with AS9104A.

• Gear-driven Pedistals• Direct-drive Pedestals

• RF Rotating Subsystems• RF Rotary Joints

Waveguides

CAES waveguides are used widely in space, defense, avionics, industrial, scientific and medical applications. CAES offers a full range of rectangular (WR-22 to WR430) and double-ridge (WRD-180 to WR430) waveguides covering frequency bands from a few hundred MHz to 100 GHz and designed to comply with stringent ISO9001:2008 and AS9100 standards. CAES waveguide assemblies are custom built to specific requirements and can be manufactured from a broad range of materials such as aluminum, copper or brass.

CAES also has the capacity to create a customized integrated assembly of passive and active microwave waveguide and coaxial components as well as custom bracketry and integrated waveguides from cast to 3D printed to hybrid.

• Amplifiers• Attenuators• Channelizers• Combiners/Dividers

• Proximity Sensors• Seekers• Switches

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