Air Traffic Management and Defense Control
Precision components for critical aerospace and defense control
Air Traffic Management and Defense Control represent two distinct yet interconnected domains crucial for aviation safety and national security. These interwoven domains encompass the complex infrastructure and procedures necessary to safely and efficiently manage all air traffic in civilian and military airspace.
Air traffic management focuses on the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of civilian and military aircraft through controlled airspace. It involves the ground-based services (such as Air Traffic Control (ATC) towers, en-route control centers, and airport surveillance radar) that are responsible for guiding safe flight.
Defense control is concerned with air defense networks, early warning systems, and command, control, and communication (C3) systems that monitor and respond to military threats. Both domains rely on real-time, continuous data processing and unwavering system fidelity to maintain safety across dynamic environments.
The unseen network guiding and protecting airspace
AEM's technology is integral to successful communication, navigation, and surveillance within Air Traffic Management and Defense Control systems.
AEM's RF components are the foundational technology ensuring uncompromising safety and efficiency in the subsystems comprising Air Traffic Management and Defense Control. Beyond this, high-reliability fuses are indispensable in power distribution units for protecting sensitive and expensive equipment.
- Power amplifiers are used in radar systems to boost the power of the outgoing RF pulse to ensure it reaches maximum range, as well as communication radios to amplify voice signals to higher power.
- Mixers are essential for frequency conversion in transmitters and receivers.
- Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) amplify extremely weak signals in radar systems without adding significant electronic noise. They are also critical in defense systems for intercepting and classifying distant signals.
- Isolators prevent reflected power from being routed back to the PA.
- Filters are used to select only the desired operating frequency band and reject out-of-band interference.
- High-rel fuses protect sensitive equipment against power surges, short circuits, and overcurrents, preventing localized faults from escalating into widespread system failures.
