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dBC Newsletter: Summer 2014
Take a Virtual Tour for an Inside Look at Our Facilities
Typically, you need a security clearance to visit our 52,100 square-foot facilities. Now, you can take a virtual tour any time. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at the stringent manufacturing and testing processes we’re known for – including the advanced environmental testing equipment and highly skilled technicians essential to product reliability.
Take the tour now to preview our capabilities for OEMs and defense contractors.
High-Power Threat Detection: Two Major Defense Wins  
Custom, high-power traveling wave tube (TWT) transmitters enable rapid, accurate detection and jamming of potential threats – an absolute must when lives are on the line. That’s why the US Government and foreign allies have trusted us to design and manufacture mission-critical products for more than two decades. Here are some details on the two latest contracts we’ve won:
  • Asian military contract to design and manufacture TWT transmitters for an airborne program. Learn more.
  • US defense follow-on contract to manufacture TWT transmitters for a military shipboard radar program that detects and tracks threats in heavy clutter environments. Learn more.
Terms of both contracts prohibit dB Control from naming the customer and product specifications. Please contact Steve Walley for more info about what you can accomplish with dBC on your side.
Tactical Communication of the Warfighter
How have dB Control’s technologies aided the tactical communications of the warfighter? Tactical ISR Technology Magazine reached out to industry thought leaders to ask this question. Here’s what we had to say:

“Warfighters must stay in constant communication with each other, commanders and the Global Information Grid (the US Department of Defense’s worldwide network-centric information system). And when potential enemy radar is detected, threat emitters must be able to simulate these electronic signatures and alert warfighters. However, this simulation (and subsequently, tactical communication) may be negatively impacted in complex environments (i.e., weather, terrain, distance, etc.). Threat emitters, used to simulate electronic signatures of possible enemy radar, have been historically subject to degradation in adverse conditions. Fortunately, hub-mounted traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) and microwave power modules (MPMs) enable threat emitters to simulate multiple threats over a wide band even under adverse conditions…” Continue reading the response.
How to Get More Power from TWTs
RF engineers have relied on TWTs to provide very-high power over a broad bandwidth and high microwave frequencies of up to 100 GHz for decades. A new survey of TWTs and MPMs in the Journal of Electronic Defense highlighted the resiliency of these devices and explored how they are supplying more power to keep up with sophisticated threat radar systems. 
Check out the article and see coverage of three of our most powerful MPMs.
Spaulding Appointed as COO, Hajduk Returns as Chairman/Advisor
If you’ve done business with dB Control, chances are you’ve talked to Gary Spaulding. As the company’s first employee in 1990, he’s been actively involved in production, quality assurance, manufacturing and overall operations from the beginning. He was recently promoted from Director of Operations to Chief Operating Officer. In addition, former CEO Joe Hajduk has returned as Chairman and Advisor. Together, Gary and Joe will continue upholding dBC’s reputation for reliable products. Read the official press release and check out the feature about Gary in the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
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