Known for delivering RF technologies and related mission critical electronic solutions, CAES is about to upgrade its offering thanks to a strategic alliance it just signed with SWISSto12.
The Swiss company develops patented 3D printing technologies and associated product designs that can deliver competitive RF products and sub-systems. With the recent fund raising it secured two years ago, SWISSto12 has positioned itself as a key player who can deliver 3D printed payloads for communications over satellite.
With this new alliance between both companies, CAES will benefit from an exclusive license to SWISSto12’s patents, trade secrets, and product designs for the US market. The partners will work together with US customers on new designs to meet the high performance requirements of future missions.
“We are proud to offer this innovative technology to leading US aerospace and defense primes,” said David Young, Chief Technology Officer, CAES. “This alliance enables fully trusted next-generation RF solutions for our customers that require the highest level of security, including Department of Defense and classified applications. Through the transfer of best-in-class technology to a US market leader, leading aerospace and defense primes will now be able to deploy this technology on key programs requiring RF, microwave and millimeter wave innovation. Our decades-long relationships with our prime customers and our track record of successfully delivering on our programs, combined with SWISSto12’s market-leading additive manufacturing intellectual property and flight heritage in space, electronic warfare and other applications will ensure that the US government can fully exploit this emerging technology,” he continued.
As a reminder, RF systems require high precision formats and complex geometries that allow form factors and performance that cannot be achieved with standard manufacturing solutions. Integrated subsystems that combine multiple components in one single homogeneous part that reduces weight and complexity, have become a key enabler for prime companies where cost and space are at a premium.
“SWISSto12 is excited to partner with CAES,” said Emile de Rijk, CEO, SWISSto12. “Our pioneering expertise, product and patent portfolio utilizing additive manufacturing techniques for RF applications combined with CAES’ market leadership in the US, RF design engineering, large scale manufacturing, and test expertise will position the US aerospace and defense industry to successfully adopt groundbreaking technologies. Additionally, the alliance provides an opportunity to develop subsystems combining the best of both companies’ technologies.”
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