Corporate Profile - EADS North America Defense Test and Services, Inc.

EADS North America Defense Test and Services, Inc. headquartered in Irvine, CA, leverages the combined strengths of Access Research Corp and Racal Instruments, a leader in the test and measurement industry for nearly 50 years. The company continues to be dedicated to providing its customers, both military and commercial, with high quality, reliable, and supportable instruments, test systems, and test software.

EADS North America Defense Company acquired Access Research Corporation in July 2001 and Racal Instruments in October 2004 to form EADS North America Defense, Test and Services Inc. In 2005, EADS North America Defense Test and Services strengthened its test and services business portfolio with the acquisition of Talon Instruments, a California-based company specializing in digital test instrumentation.

About EADS North America Defense Test & Services, Inc.
EADS North America Defense Test & Services is a subsidiary of EADS North America Defense Company. It designs, manufactures, sells, and services electronic test and measurement equipment, systems, and software to leading high-technology customers throughout the world. The company offers an extensive range of products and services, from modular instruments to turnkey automatic test systems, which are ideal for use in a wide variety of applications, including commercial functional test and measurement, laser diode burn-in and production, microcomputer production, and jet engine test.

EADS North America Defense Test & Services works with core customers to define test requirements and deliver support solutions by providing general purpose ATE products, designing and building unique ATE, enhancing and integrating software offerings, and establishing nationwide OEM and military test engineering services. Among the key market sectors the company serves are Military, Aerospace, Marine, Medical, Telecommunications, Semiconductor, and Commercial Manufacturing.

About EADS North America Defense Company
EADS North America Defense Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS North America, the U.S. operations of the Dutch-registered and publicly-traded multinational corporation EADS, NV. Drawing on the expertise of EADS North America's trans-national program development and management history, EADS North America Defense Company is able to leverage its broad experience in support of Federal government agency, industry, and commercial customer needs to meet the needs of the U.S. Department of Defense. The best human and technical resources can be utilized to address the opportunities and challenges of complex initiatives in an increasingly globalized industry. EADS North America Defense Company has entered into a Special Security Agreement (SSA) with the U.S. Department of Defense to mitigate the effects of Foreign Ownership Control or Influence (FOCI). As a result of the SSA, EADS North America Defense Company has been granted a Secret facility security clearance.

Products and Services

• Systems and Integration
  In recent years, considerable growth has taken place in the ATE market, and EADS North America Defense, Test & Services continues to be a key supplier of systems and sub-systems for factory test and field product support. Through its Freedom range of products the company has become a skilled integrator and one of the world's leading suppliers of test systems to both commercial and military customers. Specific applications which have been addressed recently include laser diode burn-in, jet engine test, automotive test, radar simulation and digital communications test.
• Broadband Test
  EADS North America Defense, Test & Services offers a range of solutions for laser diode burn-in, characterization, and broadband functional test. The company's wide variety of standard and customized instrumentation products, along with its strength in mechanical engineering, provide a solid foundation to create optimal solutions for laser diode test systems specific to CoS, Butterfly, or proprietary packaging.
• Modular Instrumentation
  Programmable products carrying the Racal Instruments brand use both IEEE-STD-488 GPIB and VXIbus (VMEbus Extensions for Instrumentation) standards for modular systems. Racal Instruments was one of the five founding members of the VXIbus Consortium that developed the VXIbus specification expressly to meet the requirements of the test instrumentation industry. Today EADS North America Defense Test & Services offers one of the largest selections of VXIbus hardware and software available from any supplier, as well as a wide range of ANSI standard and platform-independent instrumentation.
• Engineering Strengths
  The backbone of EADS North America Defense Test and Services' success is the strength of its Engineering resources. For more than forty years the company's engineers have set the pace in this technologically competitive world market. The company is committed to engineering innovation and continues to apply high-technology solutions to customer problems. Extensive engineering facilities are staffed by dedicated specialists in digital, RF and analog techniques with the support of a strong mechanical design group.

Automated Manufacturing
Semi-automatic insertion techniques for traditional components, computer controlled pick-and-place equipment for surface mount devices, infrared reflow and dualwave flow soldering are all used in manufacturing operations. Test and screening procedures include board-level ATE for functional dynamic testing and hot and cold stress cycling in a computer controlled environmental chamber. After production testing, all systems are 100% inspected by highly qualified Q.A. audit inspectors.

Quality
The concern for quality begins with design and continues through manufacture to provide a long service life.

Product designs are thoroughly evaluated on a continuing basis to ensure that the equipment delivered performs even better than published specifications. Most systems include guaranteed long term specifications to ensure accurate performance over an extended calibration cycle and many products include built-in diagnostics, automatic calibration, and microprocessor-based signature analysis.

A reputation for reliability has earned the company a significant place in major commercial, military and government programs world-wide. The company's quality programs have been audited and certified to comply with ANSI/ASQC ISO 9001:2000 and BS EN ISO9001 (TickIT Guide Issue 5) (UK).

Service and Support
After sales service and support is available on a global, 24/7 basis from facilities in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Italy, as well as an international network of highly competent distributors and representatives. As a result, EADS North America Defense Test & Services can provide a high level of sales and product support to ensure total-solution coverage for minimum life-cycle costs and maximum productivity.

Certified calibration is available from all factory service centers and many representatives. All calibration measurements are traceable to national and international standards. Training seminars are provided for users who desire detailed training on specific products.

Product warranty is a major part of the service program. Products typically carry a one-to-three year parts and labor warranty. Service contracts and extended warranties can be arranged on most products.

Many Solutions - Global Markets - One Source
As technology becomes the dominant force of the new millennium, EADS North America Defense Test & Services' evolutionary test techniques and systems are at the leading edge of an ever more dynamic and demanding global marketplace. Few companies have the resource and expertise to deliver the broad range of products and services that the company offers, with the commitment to performance and continuous innovation that allows us to deliver proven, comprehensive, best-in-class test solutions to commercial and military markets around the world.

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