Kyocera AVX Corporation is a leading international manufacturer and supplier of a vast portfolio of advanced electronic components, including: capacitors, inductors, filters, resistors, couplers, diodes, and circuit protection devices, as well as a broad range of innovative sensor, control, interconnect and antenna solutions. With 29 research, design, manufacturing, and customer support facilities in 16 countries around the world, Kyocera AVX offers significant competitive advantages, including delivery and production capabilities optimized to suit each individual customer’s just-in-time inventory requirements, and global engineering teams experienced in developing new-to-market product solutions especially designed to fulfill customer’s unique application requirements.
Kyocera AVX has successfully served the automotive, industrial, medical, military, consumer electronics, communications, and transportation markets for nearly 50 years. Kyocera AVX components can be found in many electronic devices and systems worldwide.
Located in Spokane, Washington, Hi-Rel Laboratories is an independently owned and operated corporation, whose main concentration of activity is in the materials evaluation of the micro-electronic oriented phases of commercial, aerospace and defense industries.
Hi-Rel is thriving on a strong presence in Space Program component evaluation (DPA) and a blend of largely commercial materials and electronic failure analysis. Because of our strength and emphasis in materials evaluation of electronic materials, coupled with a commitment to being highly cost effective, Hi-Rel has established itself as the leader in the DPA testing market. With the current reductions in the availability of class S product and the transition to QML and COTS components, Hi-Rel foresees an increased demand for cost effective and informative DPA and Construction Analysis (CA) testing. Hi-Rel is positioned to assist this need as technology advances.
Presidio Components, Inc., has been an industry leader in the manufacture of ceramic capacitors since 1980. We provide high quality commercial capacitors, military capacitors, space capacitors, high temperature capacitors, pulse energy capacitors, microwave capacitors, RF capacitors, as well as custom capacitors.
Our custom products include nonstandard part sizes and voltages, including high voltage, high temperature, high “Q”, custom leads, cryogenic ceramics, negative and positive temperature characteristic ceramics and piezoelectric formulations. We have a series of patented microwave and radio frequency products including patented single layer and broadband DC blocking caps.
Payton is an international group of companies handling and promoting magnetic components, with sales offices and plants in Israel, Europe, United States and the Far East. As a global leader of both conventional and planar transformers, with more than 25 years of research and development experience, Payton offers a wide range of custom designed products that meet all the requirements and standards for a variety of specific product applications.
Our unique patented technology used in designing planar magnetics (Planetics®) will reduce the size and weight of present transformer by up to 80%, while increasing the product efficiency and its power density. Payton developed a proven winning technology that is evident in the superior quality of its conventional and planar transformers. This technological breakthrough is continuously enhanced by our devotion to further research and development that will enable Payton to meet and exceed customer’s expectations.
Payton is already ISO 9001 certified and on May 2002 received the certification for ISO 14001.
As a registered Woman-owned, small business, franchised distributor and manufacturer, Eastern States Components, LLC (DBA; ESC or ES Components) is your best choice for Military, Space, and Industrial Discrete and Passive components. As a certified manufacturer, ESC provides DMSMS and OBSOLESCENCE solutions using standard and custom hermetic packaging and the world’s largest inventory of legacy semiconductor die, including material from the 1970’s from our partnership with Elmo Semiconductor, inventory acquired from Vishay Siliconix in 2017 and inventory from our franchised suppliers.
ESC continues to provide bare-die solutions and value-added services, such as SLDC sorting and traceability, Tin/Lead (SnPb) lead finish, COTS Up-screening, and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) services.
Certifications and Registrations:
Woman Owned Small Business Enterprise, (WOSB) WBENC Certified
MIL-PRF-38535
ISO9001:2015
QSLD / JESD31 (DLA Certified Distribution)
QTSL (DLA Certified Testing)
AS9120:2016 (Space Grade Distribution)
AS6081:2012 (Counterfeit Avoidance)
ITAR Registered and GIDEP Member
TopLine provides unique solutions to convert solder ball FPGA and ASIC BGA components to solder columns (CCGA) for extending operational life in data centers and for Small Sat space missions.
TopLine manufactures a wide range of solder columns as well as precision graphite tooling to attach columns to ceramic and organic packages.
Column Grid Arrays are more reliable in rugged environments than BGA. CCGA conversion reduces board real estate with an added benefit to lower total payload size and weight by eliminating BGA sockets.
Columns are great to reduce stress and mitigate delamination issues for critical large geometry CMOS sensor package applications.
TopLine has supports aerospace and defense companies to solve difficult CTE mismatch problems using daisy chain components for data collection.
We also have solutions for mitigating extreme random vibration with our series of COTS particle impact dampers (PID).
Call us today to discuss your R&D projects.
StratEdge is a privately held company with worldwide headquarters in Santee, California, USA. Design, manufacturing, test, and assembly are located in the Santee Division’s ISO 9001:2015 facility. StratEdge high performance semiconductor packages operate from DC to 63+ GHz for the high speed digital (OC-48, OC-192, OC-768), mixed signal, broadband wireless, satellite, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint, VSAT, and test and measurement industries.
Oneida Research Services® (ORS) offers specialized laboratory testing services to support the microelectronics, telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, medical, and defense industries. Our services focus on research, development and quality control of our client’s products: exclusively for our client. ORS strives to develop long term relationships with our clients through unwavering professionalism, flexibility and attention to detail.
Throughout its almost 40 years of providing materials analysis services to the electronics industry, ORS has established on-going working relationships with experts in the field of applied analytical chemistry, materials/processing technology, quality systems, and component reliability. ORS and its industry experts have a wealth of experience in applying laboratory technology to solve your materials/processing, reliability, or process yield problems. We are available to consult with you, at your facility whenever appropriate, to provide technical expertise on a wide range of materials and process technology issues.
Q-Tech Corporation was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing state-of-the-art crystal clock oscillators and frequency control solutions for companies with demanding applications. The Company is built on the philosophy that products built from leading edge oscillator technology, with a dedication to quality, on-time delivery, and customer service, would be of great benefit to our customers and their needs.
Operating out of a 30,000 square-foot facility in Cypress, California, USA, Q-Tech is Registered to AS9100 Rev D with ISO9001:2015 Quality Management Systems by NSF-ISR. The Company maintains a global presence with sales capabilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Q-Tech is renowned for its cutting-edge design and manufacturing capabilities in both bulk acoustic wave (BAW) and surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. Its continued dedication to research and development of key frequency control technologies have allowed improvements in the areas of higher frequencies, miniaturization, lower costs, and new designs.
As the leading U.S. manufacturer of qualified products to MIL-PRF-55310 as well as ultra-high reliability standards such as Aerospace Corporation TOR (GPS III) and NASA GSFC specifications, Q-Tech proudly services the military, aerospace, down-hole, and deep space industries, achieving boundless success stories in our four decades of partnership with our customers. Parts designed and manufactured by Q-Tech have excelled in environments ranging from kilometers below the Earth’s crust, to deep space missions far beyond the Solar System.
Q-Tech is committed to continuous improvement in achieving overall product excellence by optimizing the company’s capabilities and resources including total supply chain management.
Q-Tech Corporation fully supports legacy programs. No product has ever been obsoleted. We welcome your inquiries and you might find that we either have a drop in replacement product, a suitable substitute, or the ability to recreate the product you need.
Exxelia is a designer and manufacturer of high reliability passive components and precision subsystems adapted to demanding end-markets, applications and functions.
Exxelia product portfolio includes capacitors, inductors & transformers, resistors, filters, position sensors, slip rings and high-precision mechanical parts. Products are commonly used for power electronics, power generation, energy storage, and signal filtering functions in leading industrial areas such as aviation, defense, space, medical, railway, oil & gas and telecommunications.
Exxelia is valued for its ability to meet complex specifications and develop standard and custom products complying with the demanding qualification procedures intended to critical functions (MIL, QPL,…).
UNMATCHED INVESTMENT IN CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES SETS US APART FROM OTHER PRECIOUS METAL REFINERS.
Our 21st century, state-of-the-art equipment, combined with our expertise in refining technology gives us the unique ability to customize a recovery solution that is right for you. This proven, individualized approach to each refining lot consistently yields the maximum returns for our customers.
Vanguard Electronics has been an industry leader for over 60 years in the design and manufacture of inductors and transformers. With a reputation for reliability in demanding environments, Vanguard is a preferred supplier to major contractors in the Defense, Aerospace, Space, Medical, and Down-hole Oil & Gas industries.
Manufacturing, including MIL-STD-981 & other space level requirements, along with research & development, prototyping, and lab analysis are headquartered in a state of the art facility in Huntington Beach, California. Vanguard has an additional 40,000 square foot manufacturing facility located in Mexicali, Mexico. Both facilities meet the highest defense and aerospace industry standards such as:
ITAR Compliant
DLA Authorized
MIL-PRF-27
AS9100:2016
ISO 9001:2015
MIL-STD-981
Six Sigma Microelectronics is a division of Winslow Automation, Inc., which is an American (privately-owned) C-corporation, headquartered in Silicon Valley. The company was incorporated in California in 1986.
Six Sigma provides solutions for high-reliability integrated circuits (ICs) primarily used in military and space applications.
Our main strengths are:
Integrated circuit technical knowledge and hands-on experience
- The company’s engineers and production staff have decades of experience and have been handling mission-critical devices for many years.
Soldering technical knowledge and hands-on experience
- The company has been soldering integrated circuits (and has seen all device types) for more than three (3) decades. The company’s soldering experts have also written technical papers and are actively involved in developing industry standards.
Automation capability (which includes custom equipment design and build)
- Since solder column manufacturing equipment is not commercially-available, the company continues to design and build its own.
Datatronics, established in 1971, is a global leader in custom magnetics technologies, offering world class manufacturing, total quality management, responsive service and superior value. Our custom magnetics design, service and manufacturing facilities are located worldwide to support our customers.
For six decades we’ve been building The DNA of tech.®
| The Vishay journey began with one man, Dr. Felix Zandman, and a revolutionary technology. From there we would grow and strengthen over decades, arriving where we are today: one of the world’s most trusted manufacturers of electronic components. From discrete semiconductors to passive components; from the smallest diode to the most powerful capacitor, Vishay’s breadth of products is the very foundation that brings modern technology to life, every day, for everyone. We call it The DNA of tech.®
This DNA is more than infrastructure for today’s most vital electronic products, it’s a platform to enable growth. Vishay is well-positioned to propel such timely macroeconomic growth drivers as sustainability, connectivity and mobility. Through R&D, manufacturing, engineering, quality, sales and marketing, we generate the essential components that enable inventors and innovators to create new generations of products—ones that span many sectors: automotive, industrial, consumer, computer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical. Together with the manufacturers of today and tomorrow’s most compelling electronic innovations, names you know, we are enabling next level automation in factories, the electrification of the automobile, 5G network technology, and the rapid expansion of connectivity across everything (IoT) to highlight a few areas of strong growth. This diversity of opportunity is the reason Vishay has thrived, and why we are driven to be the DNA behind the success of our customers and partners and to be part of making a future that’s safer, sustainable and more productive. |
RFHIC Corporation is a global leader in designing and manufacturing high-performance RF & Microwave components for defense, telecom, and RF Energy applications.
RFHIC Corporation is a diverse environment of intuitive thinkers and doers, continually reimagining and reinventing what’s possible with GaN technology. The people who work at RFHIC Corporation have reinvented the semiconductor industry with our GaN Transistors, GaN Power Amplifiers, GaN MMICs, and GaN-based Sub-Systems. RFHIC Corporation also shares the same passion for innovation that goes into all our products which applies to our company’s mission — bettering the world one step at a time through RF technology.
How2Power.com is a highly regarded online power electronics trade publication and research portal that serves electrical and electronics engineers in many fields by helping them to implement power conversion in their applications. In addition to its monthly e-newsletter, How2Power Today, it contains many different sections on various technical subjects within power electronics as well as other helpful resources. CMSE attendees may also appreciate How2Power’s special sections on Space Power and Military Power Supplies.
For over 40 years AEM, headquartered in San Diego, California, has been resolving design challenges to meet the world’s most demanding performance and reliability standards with innovative solutions. Today, AEM has grown into a global leader in circuit protection, semiconductors, and RF/Microwave solutions for mission-critical applications across aerospace and defense, space, industrial, automotive, enterprise systems, and advanced computing.
Unified as one dynamic force: AEM Hi-Rel , AEM Components, Central Semiconductor, Renaissance, and IAEM India, deliver components, technologies, and system-level knowledge to support over 100,000 customers worldwide. These products and services enable more efficient power management, more precise sensing, higher reliability, interference-free communication, and more intelligent data processing, helping customers turn innovation into reality across harsh and high-stakes environments.
Since 1974, Central Semiconductor has manufactured innovative discrete semiconductors to meet designers’ ever-changing requirements. Our business is the pursuit of perfection in the devices we manufacture and the services we provide, all the time, every time. Central’s average lead time is consistently lower than industry standards.
As an ISO9001:2015 certified manufacturer, Central constantly monitors its manufacturing processes and business practices to achieve perfect quality products and outstanding service; devices are RoHS2 and REACH compliant with quality data readily available from our website.
Central Semiconductor aspires to be the preferred manufacturer of the most innovative discrete semiconductors in the industry, and our team is passionate about exceeding your expectations. We pride ourselves on working tirelessly to solve customers’ challenges and we relentlessly endeavor to achieve complete customer satisfaction.
The electronics thermal management market is a complex, competitive, and highly layered market.
The most effective tool for successful new product development and the resuscitation of existing materials and components businesses is strategic market analysis and guidance.
DS&A offers concise, practical market planning and business strategy analysis to assist manufacturers in the global electronics marketplace.
Many companies have become aware of the need for new materials, new materials joining systems, and new thermal management concepts. Selecting the correct market entry strategy is critical to success.
Critical market assessment of existing products and materials solutions and technical marketing planning for addressing new market inflection points is what we do.
Evans Group
Hi-Rel Capacitors for Mission-Critical Capacitor Systems.
Uniting four industry leaders Evans, Paktron, UTC and Eulex – Evans Group delivers the industry’s most specialized and comprehensive capacitor portfolio. Together, we provide power-dense, high-reliability solutions engineered for mission-critical environments across defense, aerospace, energy and advanced RF systems.
QP Technologies is a leading provider of microelectronic packaging and assembly, wafer preparation, and substrate design and development services and our service offerings enable our customers to target a range of end markets, including commercial, RF, power, industrial, automotive, medical and mil-aero. We leverage proven technologies developed by our skilled experts, and we work closely with you to get your products to market quickly and in high volume. Our in-depth and unique industry knowledge, combined with the personal relationship we create with you, means you can count on us to be your trusted adviser and partner.
All Tech Electronics is a certified minority owned and operated military component specialist. Certified by the National Minority Business Council (NMBC), All Tech has become one of the fastest growing minority owned electronics companies in the country.
Here’s why:
Our management team has accumulated over one hundred (100) years experience in the military, high rel and space component and application business.
Celebrating our 30th year in business. We are a franchised distributor for the leading manufacturers of diode, transistor, integrated circuit and memory products for the defense, aerospace and space marketplace.
We are a full service DMS/Obsolescence solutions provider to the defense, aerospace and space applications market. We offer all of the necessary tools to solve and manage our customer’s ongoing DMS challenges.
Our ISO 9001:2015 and AS9120 certified Distribution Center has been audited and reviewed on site and certified by major defense, aerospace and space customers.
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Fremont California, Golden Altos Corporation (GAC) is a fast-paced full-service provider serving the semiconductor, military, aerospace industry as well as specialized commercial applications with quality service building both single chip and multichip modules.
RFMW, established in 2003, is the leading global distributor of RF and Microwave semiconductors, connectors, and components. Offering technical engineering support, value added services, and components through technically competent sales engineers, and an e-commerce platform driven by a component engineering team–RFMW is focused on providing available-to-ship inventory and technical expertise to help design engineers accelerate time to market. Acquired by Berkshire Hathaway company TTI, Inc. in 2018, RFMW is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with international distribution centers in Europe, Israel, and Asia.
For over 43 years, Allied High Tech Products has provided quality products for metallographic sample preparation & analysis. Allied designs and manufactures sectioning, mounting, grinding/polishing and milling equipment at their US facilities, and distributes a full range of consumable products. Allied’s equipment is built in-house to specifications that deliver maximum performance and dependability. All equipment carries a 2-year warranty & prompt service or technical help is always available.
This company may be new, but we’re not newcomers to the high reliability RF/Microwave industry.
The founders have over 100 man-years of experience designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing and providing innovative solutions to the industry. The founders have successfully designed and managed multi-million dollar technical projects from concept to completion for commercial, telecom, military, and space applications.
GM Systems is a global management and technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized advanced electronic systems, semiconductor components, and RF solutions to a global customer base of leading OEMs seeking high-performance, market-driven technologies.
OUR TAGLINE: “COLLABORATE. FACILITATE. SUCCEED.”
Beyond our portfolio of high-performance, enabling technologies, our tagline embodies the spirit of GM Systems
COLLABORATE
At GM Systems, we collaborate with our customers in collaborative engineer-to-engineer relationships. Our engineers are involved early in product design cycles, helping our customers to accelerate their new product introductions.
FACILITATE
With our broad applications expertise and innovative technology solutions, we facilitate a diverse set of applications including commercial, industrial, defense and space applications.
SUCCEED
Our customized, market-driven solutions for each of our OEM customers’ unique system requirements—coupled with a passion for excellence in all aspects of product performance, quality, reliability, delivery, cost and service—insure that our OEM customers will succeed in their end-markets and applications.
TJ Green Associates is uniquely qualified in all aspects of microelectronic device assembly, materials/process development, failure analysis, inspection, and defect recognition. We provide microelectronics training and microelectronics consulting services that will enable you to identify problems before they happen and determine the appropriate cause and corrective actions in order to maximize production yield and eliminate field failures in mission critical applications. A veteran-owned small business, TJ Green Associates provides teaching and consulting services to companies around the world with expertise in hermeticity, materials and processes used to assemble hybrid microcircuits, multichip modules, microwave hybrids, RF/MMIC modules, MEMS, Class III medical implants, optoelectronics, and other types of packaged microcircuits.
Q2 Diamonds, where the frontiers of innovation converge with boundless ambition. At the forefront of technological advancement, our venture is on a quest for quantum supremacy, setting out to revolutionize multiple industries through the deployment of groundbreaking and non-traditional materials. Our expertise is in crafting precision-engineered CVD diamonds designed to challenge and transform conventional industrial methodologies. Our products offer unparalleled alternatives for a range of applications including semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace, tooling, optics, power electronics, acoustics, AI, optoelectronics, EVs, wastewater treatment and quantum computing, all thanks to the extraordinary capabilities of our intricately crafted diamond solutions..
Sales & Service, Inc. (SSI) is a specialized manufacturers’ representative providing mission-critical consumable products, precision tooling, and capital equipment for semiconductor packaging, assembly, and test — with deep expertise serving military, aerospace, defense, and space-grade electronics markets. SSI represents industry-leading manufacturers including Syensqo (Galden® PFPE inert dielectric fluids for thermal shock and hermetic seal gross leak testing per MIL-STD-883, MIL-STD-750, and MIL-STD-202), Loranger International (burn-in and test sockets for device qualification and reliability screening), Suron (hermetic metal packages, lids, lead frames, and sealing preforms for hybrid microcircuits and RF/microwave modules), Micro Point Pro (iBond5000 wire bonding equipment, capillaries, and wedge tools for hi-rel interconnect), Royce Instruments (bond pull and ball shear test systems supporting MIL-STD-883 Methods 2011/2023), and Camtek (wafer-level automated optical inspection). SSI’s technical sales team works directly with engineers, quality teams, and procurement to specify and support solutions for demanding high-reliability applications.
CalRamic Technologies LLC, a manufacturer and specialists of High Voltage Ceramic Capacitors, US based manufacturing operations located in Reno, Nevada. Voltage ranges from 50VDC to 30KVDC with a huge variety of dielectric types to fit your application requirements. Applications range from Hi-Rel Space level, Military Aerospace and ground based systems, Commercial Aerospace, Medical, Commercial/Industrial, and GeoThermal/GeoPhysical applications. Custom designs are available to suit your specific needs.
U.S.-Owned | North American Manufactured | High-Reliability Ceramic Components for Military & Aerospace Systems
Johanson is a U.S.-owned company that designs and manufactures high-reliability ceramic capacitors, inductors, and RF passive components for mission-critical military and aerospace systems.
With more than 60 years of proven performance, Johanson components are engineered to deliver the electrical stability, thermal endurance, and repeatability required by today’s advanced defense platforms.
We specialize in both standard and custom solutions, supporting program-specific electrical, mechanical, and environmental requirements.
Our Camarillo, CA USA facility includes a dedicated High-Reliability Department providing in-house screening and validation to meet demanding applications.
Built for High-Reliability Applications:
Consistent lot-to-lot performance and full traceability
Tight tolerance options for impedance-critical designs
Engineering support for custom values, RF matching networks, and layout guidance
Spira Manufacturing Corporation is at the forefront of EMI gasket innovation, design, and customer service. With over 40 years as experts in the field and using our uniquely patented spiral EMI gasket, we offer customers a range of EMI gaskets, shielded honeycomb filters, and other products. Our products are of the highest quality and reliability, built to meet your requirements for the life of a system.
We are over 2000 employees, working together in multiple locations worldwide to give manufacturers and airlines one integrated source for sensing, power, braking, electronics and more. We deliver innovative design and manufacturing engineering capabilities for rugged commercial aviation, defense and space applications.
Our Foundation for Excellence
Imagine partnering with a team that’s not just skilled, but deeply passionate about your success, consistently delivering integrity-filled results, driven by an extraordinary levels of effort. At AAA Engineering & Test Lab, we’re more than a testing facility, we’re your dedicated allies in ensuring every electronic component performs flawlessly in mission-critical environments. Rooted in engineering excellence and quality testing, our guiding principles inspire us daily to deliver precision, innovation, and unwavering integrity filled results. This commitment isn’t abstract; it’s the driving force behind every test we conduct, every insight we provide, and every solution we craft to empower your aerospace, defense, medical, and automotive projects with confidence and reliability.
Our Vision
“To lead the nation in advanced electronic component testing and analysis, delivering unparalleled quality and innovation to support mission-critical programs.”
This vision fuels our drive to be the partner you can count on, pushing boundaries to minimize your risks, boost performance, and propel your initiatives forward. We’re here to help you achieve breakthroughs that matter, turning challenges into triumphs with cutting-edge expertise.
Our Mission
“From Florida’s Space Coast, AAA Engineering & Test Lab provides precision-driven testing for electronic components. Grounded in certified quality systems and engineering rigor, we earn our clients’ trust through technical depth, certified testing, and a relentless focus on quality.”
For you, this mission means hands-on support from our ISO 9001/AS9100-certified, ITAR-registered team in our expansive 13,000-square-foot facility. We apply MIL-STD levels of testing with unyielding precision, delivering results that safeguard your supply chain and elevate your component reliability, because your success is our ultimate measure.










































