MESSAGE FROM THE SALES & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

It’s my pleasure to have the opportunity to give you brief news on some of the current TMD activities.

The US office in Baltimore, Maryland has had a record year, winning a total of three new programmes in addition to orders received from our established customers. The US team has been further strengthened and the repair facility has seen good growth with rapid turnaround time.

We are heavily involved in the UK National Quantum Programme with a number of projects running to develop quantum enhanced products with a wide range of applications. The areas being addressed are: compact and rugged rubidium and caesium atomic clocks, compact frequency stabilised lasers and compact magneto optical traps. TMD is working with a number of academic and industrial partners on these projects which are described on page 7.

Red Air (aggressor) simulation is becoming increasingly important globally and TMD is supplying a number of customers with threat simulators for training systems. These are both ground based and airborne to allow a wide range of threats to be realistically simulated.

Finally, as power and frequency demands for EW platforms continue trending upwards, it’s clear that travelling wave tube (TWT) solutions, rather than solid state, offer proven technology advantages. When high power is the goal for radar and Electronic Warfare, TWT based solutions have repeatedly shown to be more efficient, durable, and cost effective over the life of the programme. With decades of tube technology experience behind us, and

working at the forefront of tube innovation, TMD is well positioned to reinforce the suitability of tube based solutions at high power.

We are anticipating another year of growth and very much look forward to continuing the strong relationships we have with our valued customers.

BREAKING NEWS

TMD has acquired G2 Engineering Limited, a small, specialist hi-tech microwave design and manufacturing company currently based in nearby Greenford, West London. Established some 18 years ago, G2 Engineering is engaged in the design and manufacture of a range of radar transponders and support equipment for applications that include UAVs, missiles, and manned aircraft. Well known customers of G2 Engineering include MBDA and QinetiQ.

Spring 2018 iSSue no. 34

IN FOCUS

We would like to thank all those who took part in the survey at the

end of 2017. The feedback has been evaluated and shared with the

relevant teams to take appropriate action where required. In the interest of on-going improvements, TMD will

continue to send out the survey on a yearly basis in order to improve its product quality, reliability, customer

service, delivery, brand, reputation and the website.

YOUR CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR SAY!!!

CUSTOMER SURVEY

THE MAGAZINE FOR THE CUSTOMERS OF TMD

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JANE McALISTER - SALES & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

DIRECTOR

• TMD USA - Appointment of NEW Vice President ......................................2

• TMD USA - Launch of NEW Website ..................................................2

• Factory Refurbishment .....................3• Product News - Instrumentation

Amplifiers ..............................................4• Product News - Rugged MPM &

TWTA Update .......................................5• TMD Features in the UK

Parliamentary Review .......................6• Events - DSEI - Defence and Security

Equipment International .................6• Business Development - UK

National Quantum Technologies Programme ...........................................7

• TMD Supports Charity ......................8

IN THIS ISSUE

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TMD USA Developments

LAUNCHED RECENTLY

TMD Technologies, LLC (TMD USA) has recently upgraded its company website to further support its growing customer base in North America.

Tom Curtin, recently appointed to the new position of Vice President, Sales & Business Development commented: “We wanted a more user-friendly website that would be accessible to a range of different users, including engineers interested in technical product capabilities, buyers seeking background and contact information, and executives needing assurances of TMD’s outstanding legacy.”

The improved website allows customers to download technical data

sheets and general product capability brochures, along with submitting a quote request or making a general inquiry.

Also, the latest developments in TMD’s evolving product line-up of microwave power modules (MPMs), travelling wave tubes (TWTs), high voltage power supplies, and commercial amplifiers will be posted to keep customers informed of the company’s expanding technical road maps.

The new TMD USA website will be updated regularly to announce company information, new product releases, and relevant technical information.

To maintain and support its growing market and customer base in North

America, world class supplier of professional microwave products

TMD Technologies, LLC (TMD USA) has appointed Tom Curtin to the

position of Vice President, Sales & Business Development.

Mike Farley, CEO of TMD USA, said: “Tom brings extensive hands-on

experience in dealing directly with our DoD US armed forces and aerospace/defence prime

contractors involved with radar, test equipment, and EW/ECM systems.

As an industry veteran with over 25 years of technical sales and business

development experience in the electronic design, manufacture

and test industry, Tom is a welcome and valued team addition to our

on-going expansion strategy and presence in North America”.

TMD USA STRENGTHENS SUPPORT FOR GROWING

CUSTOMER BASE WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF

NEW VICE PRESIDENT

NEW TMD USA WEBSITE LAUNCHEDEnhanced website for TMD USA further strengthens customer support

www.tmdus.com

Over the past three years we have been working on a programme of continuous improvement to our factory equipment and facilities. The aim is to ensure that we have the most modern, efficient and effective manufacturing operation, to enable us to provide world-class products and services to our customers; specifically, the best quality, reliability, delivery performance and customer service.

We are now well down the road in this process; the benefits are being realised and are clearly visible.

Examples include: • An additional state of the art laser welder • Upgraded leak-checking equipment • New bake stands for tube processing • Power supply assembly benches fitted with individual screens for the efficient access of assembly data • New LED lighting for many of the manufacturing areas including the tubes cleanroom • Upgraded environmental control systems for tube manufacturing • New flooring across the whole factory (including Electrostatic Discharge flooring (ESD) for relevant areas) to provide a modern, clean and safe working environment • New test equipment providing greater flexibility and improved scheduling • The introduction of visual management boards in manufacturing areas to enable at-a-glance reports of key processes and activities

Our improvement activity has been carried out with the valuable support and encouragement of our Sharing in Growth (SIG) partners (the prestigious government funded initiative for top performing aerospace manufacturers). SIG provides concentrated and tailored training and development programmes covering leadership, engineering excellence, lean operations, quality supply chain management, strategic thinking and planning.

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Factory News

FACTORY REFURBISHMENTENHANCEMENT TO THE

FACTORY

BAKE STANDS FOR TUBE PROCESSING

POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY

MAJOR ADVANCE IN THE MARKET PLACE

Since the launch of the PTCM series, TMD’s engineers have been very busy fulfilling the first phase of orders for these truly innovative products.

Imad Gharib, Sales Manager for RF & Microwave Amplifiers said: “The reaction from our customers has confirmed our decision to continue our investment in these modular amplifiers, which represent a major advance in the marketplace”.

Customer benefits include:• Advanced self-diagnostics• Ethernet interface• Remote management and diagnostics• VSWR reflected power protection• Plug and play field replaceable power supplies

TMD’S INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER HISTORY IN BRIEF

For 25 years TMD has been providing instrumentation amplifiers for EMC testing, scientific laboratory and radar and EW simulation applications. These products are based on the same switched mode power supply technology as our MIL Spec rugged amplifiers with all the advantages of performance and reliability, but re-packaged into compact and affordable rackmount units.

They cover the operating range DC-40 GHz up to 50 kW and can deliver the highest field strengths available in the test environment – thus meeting the most demanding worldwide testing standards including: RTCA/DO-160, MIL Standard EUROCAE and Airbus ABD 100.

INNOVATION IN INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIERSAROUND THE

WORLD WITH TMD

TMD Technologies Ltd (UK) and TMD Technologies, LLC (USA) can claim an

impressive statistic for 2017, in that between them they exhibited at more than 15

shows around the globe!

Regions visited included UK, USA, Far East, Middle East and mainland Europe, at

specialist events covering the entire range of TMD’s

products and services.

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Product News

NEW MODULAR INSTRUMENTATION

AMPLIFIER

The last four years have seen rapid development in our range of microwave power modules (MPMs), starting with the GaN based solid state PTS6900 (optimised for EW) and closely followed by the ultra compact PTXM1000 series of TWT based MPMs. The latter were specifically designed for those radar, EW and communications applications that required high power performance in a small space.

New requirements for MPMs continuously emerge and TMD’s sales and engineering teams work closely together to launch new products into the market.

Last year saw the arrival of two new models:

NEW! PTX8110 compact, high power MPM for radar and EW

The new PTX8110 operates from 6-18 GHz at 200 W and, with its compact design, is easily integrated into those high performance EW and radar systems requiring higher power.Comprising a high power helix travelling wave tube (TWT) and switched mode power supply, the PTX8110 forms a single ‘drop-in’ microwave amplifier unit without the need for potentially unreliable high voltage TWT interconnections. A high performance TWT is specified together with a low noise solid state preamplifier to provide optimum noise performance. It features high electrical efficiency, needs a minimum of cooling and operates over a wide temperature range - at high altitude and high humidity.

NEW! PTX8815 Ka band TWTA for high performance radar

The new PTX8815 TWTA from TMD is designed for Ka band radar applications such as naval fire control. Featuring broadband capability, covering 32 GHz–36 GHz, it offers a peak power of over 1100 W in the mid-band, and 600 W at the band edges with a maximum duty of up to 12%. This top class TWTA is the answer to high resolution radar requirements for low close-to-carrier phase noise and spurious performance. Its development follows the launch of the PTX8807 Ka band, 200 W CW/Pulsed MPM, aimed primarily at EW applications.

RUGGED MPM & TWTA UPDATE

RANGE OF RUGGED MPMs & TWTAs

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Product News

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TMD and Government/ Events

TMD’s sales and engineering teams were out in force at DSEI 2017, one of the most important security and defence events in our calendar.

In particular we were showcasing two new TWT based microwave power modules (MPMs): the PTX8110, 6-18 GHz, 200 W unit and the PTX8815, Ka band, 1100 W unit – described in more detail on page 5.

These products generated considerable interest at the show and were featured in the Official Show Daily Press.

The potential for networking is of key importance at DSEI. We welcomed 15 international delegations on our stand including members of armed forces, our international agents/representatives and prime contractors for radar, EW and communications systems.

We were also delighted to host an evening reception at London’s historic Oriental Club where we were able to meet customers, representatives and members of the press in a more informal setting.

DSEI - DEFENCE AND SECURITY EQUIPMENT INTERNATIONAL

HIGHLIGHTS FROM DSEI 2017

FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

We are again planning a busy exhibition schedule for this year.

To stay informed of TMD’s shows worldwide please visit the Events section of our website:

http://www.tmd.co.uk/community/events/

With the endorsement of Prime Minister Theresa May, TMD was one

of a small number of outstanding manufacturing organisations chosen to

appear in the definitive Parliamentary Review document

pictured above which looks back on the year in industry and government at

Westminster.

The Parliamentary Review is now a key feature of the UK’s political calendar,

with its main aim to highlight best practice, as a learning tool for both the

public and private sectors.

Peter Butcher, Executive Chairman of TMD, commented: “We were very pleased to be considered one of the

few ‘outstanding manufacturing organisations’ eligible to have a

company profile featured in the latestParliamentary Review. Since our MBO

from Thorn EMI Electronics in 1995, TMD has initiated and maintained

exceptional and on-going growth in hi-tech design and manufacture, and

has earned itself an enviable global reputation for specialised microwave

innovation and reliability”.

To view:https://www.theparliamentaryreview.

co.uk/editions/manufacturing-services/manufacturing-general

TMD FEATURES IN THE UK PARLIAMENTARY

REVIEW

TMD continues to stay at the frontiers of scientific research and development by combining its engineering and manufacturing expertise in partnership with research and development companies and universities.

A good example of this is our collaboration with academic and industry partners to realise the commercialisation of Quantum 2.0 Technologies.

The areas being addressed are: compact atomic clocks where the aim is to produce rugged rubidium and caesium products with 10-14 performance which will better any currently available competitor; compact frequency stabilised lasers where the current alternatives are large laboratory rigs which require constant attention and tuning; and compact magneto optical traps which have a wide range of applications from cold atomic clocks, to a range of ultra-sensitive inertial and gravitation sensors. Our partners include Chronos

Technology Ltd, Universities of Bath, Strathclyde and Glasgow, Kelvin Nanotechnology Ltd, Optocap Ltd and Fraunhofer UK.

Why is this work important? Since the advent of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), implemented by the USA DoD as the Global Positioning System (GPS), which became widely available in 1994, the global distribution of sub microsecond accuracy time reference signals has enabled a revolution in the use of technologies that depend on this to function.

The very ubiquity of this has resulted in substantial dependence on the availability of the GNSS signals. Due to the low level of the GNSS signals and the widespread application of low cost GPS chips it is easy to jam or interfere with the signal. The defence sector has become as dependent on GNSS for timing as the commercial sector, in which both the telecoms and

banking industries are heavily reliant on precision timing. Many defence systems are GNSS dependent both for their own functionality and also for their ability to communicate with other systems, and consequently many critical systems are now vulnerable to GNSS jamming and spoofing attacks.

Quantum clocks developed in the Quantum 2.0 programme (together with the other related hardware) have the potential to provide a valuable alternative and backup to GNSS systems - used as either stand-alone timing solutions on a platform or as ‘hold over’ clocks should the GNSS signal become unavailable.

In recognition of our close involvement with the programme, TMD was invited to attend the Quantum Technology Showcase in London in November last year, where together with our partners we were able to demonstrate some of our recent prototype assemblies.

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Business Development

UK NATIONAL QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAMME

DID YOU KNOW?In line with Health & Safety Legislation all TMD products are shipped with a new improved information leaflet. We hope this is helpful and would welcome your feedback.

THE QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

SHOWCASE 2017

TMD has been operating a ‘charity of the year’ scheme for several years. Charities are nominated by staff and the fund-raising activities are co-ordinated by the company’s Sports & Social Team (SAS).

So far, we have supported Alzheimer’s Society, Cancer Research UK, National Autistic Society, London’s Air Ambulance and, this year, CALM - the Campaign Against Living Miserably. This charity is dedicated to preventing male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.

David Brown, TMD’s Managing Director commented: “TMD takes its corporate social responsibility very seriously and last year broke its previous records by raising £5000 for London’s Air Ambulance”.

Rita Hipgrace a Prototype Wireperson at TMD raised over £870 by Wing Walking (see below).

Rita said: “They now call me the Flying Hipgrave! I love an exciting challenge especially in a good cause”. Nigel Hann, TMD’s Head of Sales (pictured above) also raised over £800 by taking part in the

Prudential Ride London-Surrey 100 cycle ride. He said: “I trained hard beforehand and was elated at the finish of the ride - it was a great experience”.

TMD EXCELS AT FUNDRAISING FOR LONDON’S AIR AMBULANCE

NIGEL HANN, TMD’s HEAD OF SALES

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