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Our expertise extends beyond the ordinary, with military PCB manufacturing capabilities that include complex, high-reliability systems designed to operate under extreme environmental conditions.
PCB Technologies provides a wide range of advanced solutions for this demanding industry, offering specialized technologies and capabilities to meet the most challenging requirements of mission-critical PCBs for military applications.
By leveraging several core technologies we’re able to produce robust, reliable electronics for defense applications. High-Density Interconnect (HDI) and Rigid-Flex PCBs are fundamental to our offerings. HDI allows for smaller, lighter, more complex circuitry; crucial for modern, space-constrained defense systems like drones and portable communications devices. Rigid-Flex PCBs combine the stability of rigid boards with the flexibility of flexible circuits, enabling intricate 3D electronic designs that can withstand shock and vibration.
Another key area is advanced Radio Frequency (RF) boards, essential for military communication, radar and electronic defense systems. These boards are engineered with complex materials and advanced design techniques to ensure signal integrity and performance at high frequencies.Â
We also offer unique heat management solutions, which are critical for high-power military electronics that generate significant heat. These solutions utilize specialized thermal interface materials and design features, to ensure sensitive components remain within safe operating temperatures; preventing risk of performance degradation or system failure.
PCB Technologies is a leading provider of custom OSAT solutions including EOL and near-EOL products. We offer advanced, high-reliability packaging and substrate solutions with the flexibility of no minimum volume requirements.
If you’ve been left stranded by an OSAT partner or need to revive an internally discontinued product line, our team can deliver an immediate, cost-effective solution to keep your critical defense products in continuous operation.
PCB Technologies’ extensive experience spans a wide range of increasingly sophisticated Military & Defense applications that include:
Electronics products and systems needed for defense industries rely on flawless functionality within countless external variables and constraints that heavily impact the risk of failure. Key challenges include:
PCB TECHNOLOGIES’ COMMITMENT TO QUALITY is upheld through our established reputation for high-reliability PCB fabrication capabilities and advanced, comprehensive test and inspection protocols. This ensures long-life functionality without degradation in PC board performance, while providing products or systems intended for military applications that not only meet, but exceed the highest quality standards. We’re proud to be a leading name in high-yield, reliable solutions for demanding defense sector customers worldwide. See our Regulatory Compliance table below:
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What it Means for the Client |
Target Industry |
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IPC-A-610 |
Your workmanship is of the highest possible standard. This is not an ISO number, but it’s an industry-critical workmanship standard for electronics assembly. Class 3 is the highest level, required for high-performance, mission-critical products where failure is not an option (e.g., life support, avionics, military systems). |
High-Reliability (Medical, Aerospace, Defense) |
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UL Certification |
Your boards are certified for safety. This signifies that the PCB materials have been tested by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for flammability and safety standards. This is often required for products that will be sold commercially. |
Consumer, Industrial |
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ITAR Registration |
You are cleared to handle sensitive U.S. defense projects. This is a registration with the U.S. government, not a certification. It’s a legal requirement for any company involved in manufacturing U.S. defense-related articles and is a critical deal-breaker for American military contractors. |
U.S. Defense & Military |
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AS9100 |
You can handle mission-critical projects. This is the QMS standard for the Aviation, Space, and Defense industries. It includes all of ISO 9001 plus more stringent requirements for safety, traceability, and risk management. It is a non-negotiable requirement for serious aerospace and defense contracts. |
Aerospace & Defense |
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ISO 13485 |
You can manufacture for the medical device industry. This is the QMS standard for medical devices. It proves you have the processes for traceability, risk management, and documentation required for components that will be used in a highly regulated medical environment. |
Medical Devices |
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IATF 16949 |
You can meet the rigorous demands of the automotive supply chain. This is the QMS standard for the automotive industry. It demonstrates your ability to provide high-quality components with a focus on defect prevention and consistency for large production runs. |
Automotive |
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ISO 9001 |
You have a solid, reliable Quality System. This is the foundational international standard for a Quality Management System (QMS). It’s the absolute minimum for any serious manufacturer and proves you have processes for consistency and continuous improvement. |
All Industries |
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There are numerous types of sensors that require PCB design and fabrication – flow, image, level sensors, light, motion, position and temperature sensors to name a few. All of which rely on heavy-data transmissions and analysis gathered from the environment, manufacturing assets and equipment. Designing PCB for these types of sensors needs to take different parameters into account, such as the environment in which they operate, their form factor, power requirements, to ensure signal and power integrity at all times for their smooth functionality as well as cost, sensitivity, reliability, and rapidity of data. Our expertise in substrate design and fabrication allows for high precision miniaturized sensors applying minimum trace spacing, and width.
Radar PCB design requires, among other things, the use of high-frequency PCB materials, such as, teflon, ceramic, and hydrocarbon. This enables the measurement of the distance between objects blocked by electromagnetic wave travel time that the radars are programmed for. Airborne, grid, naval, or land radars, Phased array, as well as Yagi-Uda radar PCBs, all combine various digital and mixed-signal technologies using very high-frequency microwave signals which call for the special know-how and a common design rules kit we possess.
PCB Technologies is a world leader in the design and manufacturing of radar PCBs including phased array air cavity antenna designs based on advanced semiconductor technology. This addresses the market’s demand for reduced size, weight, and power consumption of these elements. The next-generation design moves to a flat-panel approach, where each IC is easily mounted on the back of the antenna board allowing large-scale reduction of the antenna’s depth. The integration of higher frequency ICs (GaAs, GaN), makes advanced packaging and thermal management solutions key factor in the production of phased array air cavities to reduce the system’s physical size, improve its long-term reliability, and ensure more than one radiation pattern or data stream as common in conventional dish antennas. We also conduct complex tests and inspection procedures to ensure quality, highly reliable solutions for high reliability and mission-critical applications.
Chip packaging technology has become a key factor enabling smaller, lighter systems with increased functionality. When Radio Frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) chip is placed inside a package and connected to other components, this antenna-in-package (AiP) concept enables the reduction of the overall size and weight of the system and increases its cost efficiency. We at PCB Technologies can give our customers the benefit of a decade-long PCB and PCBA experience to be implemented in miniaturization solutions as well.
Wide range of Application in package adopted by chip developer for high-frequency applications from 60 GHz radios, to automotive radars, to phased arrays, to advanced sensors at 160 GHz up to 20 GHz for special applications.
Tackling Modern Warfare Challenges
At PCB Technologies, we are uniquely equipped to tackle the toughest challenges in UAV electronics. From thermal management and EMI compliance to high-speed processing and miniaturization, our advanced IC packaging and turnkey solutions are engineered for peak performance. With decades of expertise in defense and aerospace, we provide UAV designers, manufacturers, and engineers with cutting-edge PCBs, including specialized solutions for drone PCBs and counter UAV systems. PCB Technologies solutions are crafted with  stringent and advanced processes to ensure reliability in extreme environments, seamless multi-sensor integration, and unmatched operational efficiency.
Navigating the Complexities of Modern Interception Systems
What Sets Us Apart
At PCB Technologies, our expertise and innovation establish us as a leader in UAV system electronics. We tackle the toughest challenges in modern UAV development with streamlined production processes across all divisions, ensuring faster time-to-market. By combining advanced miniaturization, cutting-edge materials, and innovative processes, we deliver solutions that overcome thermal management, EMI, and vibration stability challenges in extreme environments—empowering UAV professionals to excel in modern defense applications.
Whether you’re addressing anti-drone technology requirements or need specialized solutions for electronic warfare systems, we deliver precision, performance, and reliability that meet the demands of modern defense.
We don’t just provide solutions; we partner with you to overcome the unique challenges of UAV development, ensuring your success in today’s competitive landscape.
Take Your System to New Heights
Ready to elevate your product ? Contact PCB Technologies today and discover how we can help you meet the demands of tomorrow with unmatched precision and innovation.
Incorporating GPS (Global Positioning System) capabilities into PCB spanning from GNSS (Global navigation satellite system) antenna, ceramic patch, a GPS patch antenna, etc., makes navigation an easy task. These GPS PCBs can be adapted for various applications such as cars, drones, municipal, aviation, and logistics to name a few. Our decade-long-experience in the design and fabrication of different types of PCBs makes us the ideal partner for ensuring your GPS system’s components assembled to your PCB are properly isolated, high reliability of its signal integrity, and that the system as a whole can provide critical positioning information to military, civil, and commercial users.
See also: Aerospace PCBs, Multi Chip Modules, QFN, IC Packaging
Processing light waves to enhance an image by the use of electrical periscopes, microscopes, telescopes, or cameras while converting electromagnetic waves into visible light is at the core of electro optics instrumentation. The more complex the instrument and its technology-based operation, the more its reliance on high reliability and high speed PCB, in which we specialize.
High power devices such as battery chargers, converters, heater controls, inverters, power supplies and switches discharge a large quantity of heat during their operations. Providing the customer with an extreme heat dissipation resistant PCB, while utilizing the PCB as a cooling system requires special expertise. PCB Technologies has the relevant know how in choosing the right materials for the job, as well as the stack up structure, plating, and advanced heating management solutions. We conduct route cause analysis on a regular basis to tackle problems such as repeated delamination between PCB layers caused by the extended heat. It takes a lot of experience in PCB design and fabrication to understand the different environmental conditions in which the PCB operates and its influence on the required heat dissipation solution. We believe getting our engineering team involved in the earliest stages of the PCB design, can serve as a game-changer in both time and money spent.
MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) are the microscopic building blocks of modern electronics. MEMS device, which contains mechanical moving parts within the package, requires proper layout to ensure the highest performance in a finished product. PCB Technologies’ decade-long-experience in PCB design and fabrication contributes to our capacity to provide solutions for the market’s continued demand for miniaturization of electronic devices. We make sure every parameter related to their design does not go unnoticed such as the components sensitivity to mechanical and thermal stress coming from the PCB they’re assembled to, or the need to reduce PCB signal noise to ensure their smooth operation. We implement high-end technologies on accelerometers, gyroscopes, MEMS microphones, motion and pressure sensor modules, and more.
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