Arotech Corporation has announced that it's Advanced Electronics Division (AED) has acquired UST-Aldetec, a privately held corporation with sites in Fair Lawn, NJ, Sacramento, CA, and Reno, NV. UST-Aldetec is an engineering, manufacturing and services company specializing in complex, high reliability, mission-critical electronic components. The addition will bring to Arotech expertise in integrated microwave assemblies and RF amplifier equipment, among other specializations.
The newly formed Advanced Electronics Division of Arotech will have the ability to support customer programs from component level selection and design to full system manufacturing, functional test and integration. UST-Aldetec will join UEC Electronics (Hanahan, SC) to expand the capabilities of the Advanced Electronics Division into the RF Microwave space and bring needed manufacturing capabilities to the UST-Aldetec companies.
Matt Bakker, President of Arotech's Advanced Electronics Division feels the addition of UST-Aldetec expands their electronics capabilities into both RF and Microelectronic product platforms. This capability will open up a much broader market segment for our growing complex electronics business and allow us to serve a growing need for these types of products within our existing defense, communications, and medical markets.
Arotech’s Advanced Electronics Division (AED) provides high-end defense electronics and power distribution solutions primarily for the defense and medical markets with development expertise across a variety of electronic assembly design and build disciplines. AED flagship power source programs, GREENS and MEHPS, are a part of the USMC’s and Army’s mobile power generation portfolio, which augment deployed force’s generator capabilities. The Division has been recognized annually for performance and quality on its complex electronics manufactured systems including a 5-Star rating with Raytheon the past two years.
