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| ITT Gilfillan's advanced active arrays and solid state transmitters feature systems with many combinations of small size, low cost, wide bandwidth, high power and long life. | |
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The cornerstones of ITT Gilfillan’s modern radar
system capabilities are solid state modules and transmitters, used commercially and in the
military. The AN/SPS-48, for example, is an advanced, highly capable air defense radar
that is produced by ITTG with solid state transmitter modules and is in service with the
US Navy on many ships. We are also at the forefront of state-of-the-art active array development, achieving many significant technology breakthroughs, some of which are described below. |
| Our customers, both government and commercial, receive cost effective solutions to tough requirements as Gilfillan engineers design modern digital radar systems by selectively combining our unique Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) microwave chips with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components, such as those used extensively in our Air Traffic Control radar products. This experience, coupled with our accomplishments in solid state transmitters at all microwave frequencies, provides an excellent background for the design and development of advanced, low cost radar systems. |  |
| This Solid-State Transmitter provides HOT-
MAINTENANCE it has only three types of replacement units- and these are replacable in less
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| Our RF (Radio Frequency) chips are unique because we created the Multifunction Self Aligning Gate, or MSAG GaAs chip fabrication process to provide radar and communication systems featuring very wide band width, high power efficiency and minimum size. We also lead the industry in integrating multiple functions (RF, digital and power) on a single MSAG chip producing modules that feature transmit/receive ultra-stable and variable power functions. Our technology is being used by the US Army, the US Navy and the US Air Force in the development and manufacture of many types of modules and tiles for radar, communication and combined applications where lightweight, high performance and/or flexibility is required. The MSAG process has now matured and enabled numerous chip and module developments for the Department of Defense (DoD), across the microwave spectrum, from L-Band through Ku-Band. These accomplishments now underpin the development of surface and airborne multifunctional conformal arrays such as the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) program. |
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 ITT GILFILLAN’S MULTIFUNCTIONAL TILES ARE A COMPONENT OF ACTIVE ARRAYS WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY PROVIDE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR, SATELLITE AND GROUND COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS FROM AIRCRAFT IN A LIGHTWEIGHT, FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION. THIS EXPLODED VIEW OF THE TILE "QUAD MODULE" DEPICTS THE EXTREME COMPACTNESS AND EFFICIENCY OF ITS DESIGN. |
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For the DoD, we pioneered the development and manufacture of the C-Band T/R chips and modules demonstrating new levels of performance. Most notable were the power, degree of compactness and multiplicity of functions, all operating without failure on a single integrated chip and in a single, power efficient package. |
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Most recently, we have received international and US Air Force orders of our internally-developed, solid state active array for air traffic control (ATC) - the world’s first such system. We have also internally developed and produced an S-Band airport surveillance radar with an all solid state centralized transmitter. Both of these ATC radars were produced with cost as the primary driver. They were realized at near zero maintenance required and with extremely high reliability through the maximum usage of commercial off the shelf (COTS) components. |
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The GCA-2000 Precision approach tactical and fixed base landing system |
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AN/MPN-25 tactical precision approach and surveillance radar
landing a military aircraft. |
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An X-Band T/R module replaces the single transmitter with a fail-safe distributed active array in both the commercial and military versions of this radar. |
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| The GCA-2000 is a compact Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR)/Precision Approach Radar (PAR) system designed to control the immediate area around an airport or air base. The ASR range is up to 30 nautical miles (nmi) with altitudes up to 10,000 feet. The PAR range is up to 20 nmi in the clear with an azimuth coverage of 30 degrees. A PAR only version known as the PAR-2000 is also available. The GCA-2000 is provided in fixed, transportable and mobile versions. The transportable version is shown to the right. The GCA-2000 is the only system of its type to be able to change runways to any one of six preset touchdown points in under one minute. | ||
| The military version of the GCA-2000 family of radars is the AN/MPN-25, used by the US Air Force as a rapid deployment landing system. | ||
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For Further Information on ITT Gilfillan Advanced Technology, Please Contact one of the following people: |
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| Geoffrey Keogh | - (818) 902-2044 |
| Business Development | |
| John Milan | - (818) 901-2390 |
| Fax: | - (818) 901-2536 |
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