Naval Shipboard Electronics
High-reliability components for mission-critical marine environments
Naval shipboard electronics includes all systems critical to a vessel's mission, from communication and navigation to combat and power management. These systems, including advanced radar, sonar, electronic warfare, and command, control, and communication (C3) systems, must operate reliably for extended periods under extreme environmental stress.
Shipboard environments introduce unique challenges, such as severe shock and vibration, highly corrosive salt-fog, and unpredictable power transients, demanding components that far exceed commercial-grade reliability standards.
Protecting essential systems across the maritime domain
AEM's technology is foundational to the integrity of Naval Shipboard Electronics, guaranteeing system uptime and component protection in the harshest marine settings.
Our solutions provide overcurrent protection in power distribution units and maintain signal integrity across vital RF and digital links. AEM's high-reliability fuses and RF: microwave to mmWave components are indispensable for safeguarding sensitive equipment and enabling effective communications and surveillance in a dynamic naval theater.
- Circulators and isolators are critical for shipboard radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems. These components ensure directional signal flow, protecting sensitive equipment from damaging reflected energy.
- Power amplifiers are deployed in long-range communication radios and high-power tactical radar systems to transmit reliable, high-fidelity signals across vast distances in unpredictable sea conditions.
- Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are essential for receiving weak satellite communication (SATCOM) and long-range surveillance signals, providing the gain necessary to maintain secure connectivity and situational awareness far from shore.
- High-reliability fuses are indispensable for protecting power distribution units in complex systems, like weapons control and navigation computers, against power overloads and short-circuits resulting from shipboard power fluctuations.
- High-reliability ferrite chips are used for EMI/RFI suppression in mission-critical digital and data-bus circuitry, ensuring signal integrity and preventing noise from high-power ship systems from disrupting sensitive equipment.
- Transient Voltage Suppressors (TVS) Diodes provide fast-acting protection for data interfaces and power rails in C4ISR equipment against severe electrical transients and lightning strikes common in maritime operations.
