Packages chosen for military sensor programme

Egide has signed a 5 year agreement with US company Textron Systems.

Egide has signed a 5 year agreement with US company Textron Systems.

As a major competitor in the US aerospace and military industry, Egide will supply its partner with hermetic packages for its military sensor fused weapon programme, otherwise known as CBU-105.

The agreement, covering 5 years, plans for Egide to make very complex casings for a total value of $1 million in 2007.

According to Philippe Bregi, Chairman and CEO of Egide: "This agreement is the result of many years of collaboration between Egide and Textron Systems".

"It marks the recognition of Egide's know-how and expertise when it comes to all hermetic package technology".

"I am very proud of this success which demonstrates the excellence of our manufacturing plant in Cambridge (Maryland, USA)".

The SFW System is the primary intelligent weapon in production for the US Air Force.

SFW is designed to accurately detect and defeat multiple threat targets.

This weapon uses complex, sensitive and fragile chips.

The total hermeticity of the networking is therefore necessary to guarantee the functioning and invulnerability of these components.

The components used in these packages are the result of a sophisticated know-how that incorporates several disciplines: material structures and notably special alloys, chemistry and electroplating, mechanics and thermodynamics, electronics, optoelectronics and microwave frequency modelling.

Egide is one of the few international competitors to master all the technologies in use with the two groups of materials that are today used for these packages around the world: glass-metal and ceramics.

Egide's great expertise of glass-metal technology (required for the SFW programme), of brazing and of plating has made the difference for Egide with this significant agreement.

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