CPI to provide research efforts in vacuum electronics for DARPA program
NewsJuly 05, 2016
PALO ALTO, Calif. The Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected the Microwave Power Products Division of Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) for the first phase of the High Power Amplifier Using Vacuum Electronics for Overmatch Capability (HAVOC) program to research revolutionary approaches to vacuum electronics.
Under the contract, researchers will develop and demonstrate a high-power, wide-bandwidth vacuum electron device (VED) that is compact enough to be compatible with mobile and airborne platforms.
The HAVOC program aims to develop VED technology to minimize between output power and bandwidth tradeoff, and consequently enabling both high output power and wide bandwidths.
The first phase of the contract is valued at an estimated $5.8 million and if all phases and options are exercised, the total ceiling value is estimated at $13 million.
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