Giga-tronics Incorporated manufactures specialized electronics equipment for use in both military test and airborne operational applications.
Segments
The company operates through two segments, its wholly owned subsidiary, Microsource Inc. (Microsource) and Giga-tronics Division.
Microsource segment
This segment primarily develops custom microwave products for use in military airborne, sea and ground applications. It produces Yttrium-Iron-Garnet (YIG) based microwave components designed spec...
Giga-tronics Incorporated manufactures specialized electronics equipment for use in both military test and airborne operational applications.
Segments
The company operates through two segments, its wholly owned subsidiary, Microsource Inc. (Microsource) and Giga-tronics Division.
Microsource segment
This segment primarily develops custom microwave products for use in military airborne, sea and ground applications. It produces Yttrium-Iron-Garnet (YIG) based microwave components designed specifically for the intended operational application. This segment produces a line of tunable, synthesized Band Reject Filters for solving interference problems in RADAR/ Electronic Warfare (EW) applications, as well as low noise oscillators used on shipboard and land-based self-protection systems. Microsource serves the market for operational hardware associated with the United States (U.S.) Government’s RADAR Modernization Program for prior generation fighter aircrafts (i.e., the F-15D, F-16, and F/A-18E jets). It also delivers YIG hardware for shipboard and land-based Close-In-Weapon-Systems (CIWS) used to defend against missile attacks.
Giga-tronics Division
This segment designs, manufactures and markets a family of functional test products and integrates those test products along with third party hardware and software to create full test solutions for the RADAR/EW segment of the defense electronics market. The company’s RADAR/EW test solutions are used to evaluate and improve the performance of RADAR and EW systems.
Customers
Microsource: This segment’s two major customers are prime contractors for which the company develops and manufactures RADAR filters used in fighter aircraft.
Giga-tronics Division: This segment’s customers include major defense prime contractors, the U.S. armed services and research institutes.
Sales and Marketing
Microsource and the Giga-tronics Division sell their products primarily direct to the U.S. defense agencies and their prime defense contractors. The company primarily relies on its internal sales teams to identify leads and complete sales. It also engages independent sales representatives who are perceived to have expertise with targeted markets or customers.
Research and Development
The company’s research and development costs totaled approximately $2.2 million for the year ended March 27, 2021.
Intellectual Property
The company has maintained four non-provisional patents related to its legacy 2500B parametric signal generator product line, which was not among the legacy product lines that have been sold. These patents describe advanced synthesis techniques and can be extended for use with the Giga-tronics Advanced Signal Generator & Analyzer (ASGA) system and to various Microsource synthesizer components. In February 2020, the company was granted a non-provisional U.S. patent relating to its ASGA system. The patent describes the internal design of the Advanced Signal Generator (ASG) and Advanced Signal Analyzer (ASA) along with the architecture of how all the components work together to facilitate building multi-channel test systems with reduced size, weight and cost as compared to present solutions. A second non-provisional patent was granted in November of 2020 describing uses of the ASGA system in high channel-count situations. A third non-provisional patent application, which was filed in April of 2020 describing how the ASGA achieves its low noise performance is pending before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
History
Giga-tronics Incorporated was founded in 1980. The company was incorporated in 1980.