L-Band Solid-State High Power Amplifier for Airborne Platforms

Growing network centric warfare needs places ever-increasing demands on airborne platforms. Growing payloads of upgraded avionics, radars, and communications assets require that all WRAs subject to redesign for weight and/or volume savings are targets for replacement. Under a Phase II effort, NSS will design, fabricate, test and deliver and working prototype of a 1 Kilowatt JTIDS high-power amplifier. The resulting unit will weigh less than half that of the current HPA. The NSS design will utilize mature LDMOS technology, in a parallel fault-tolerant architecture. The new unit will require no modification to electrical or cooling systems.