When I read recently that Tobyhanna Army Depot would begin manufacturing up to one million circuit cards annually for military drones, I immediately wondered whether this opens a whole new chapter of volume electronics manufacturing within Defense. Historically, Defense has had access to some aspect of printed circuit production. My research confirmed what I already knew from my own experience as a subcontractor to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane in Indiana. Locations such as Robins Air Force Base, NSWC Crane, Picatinny Arsenal, and Redstone Arsenal may be involved in some form of prototyping and manufacturing circuit boards and assemblies, but it’s all on a limited scale and meant to support legacy aircraft and weapons.

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I-Connect007 is excited to announce the release of The Printed Circuit Assembler's Guide to... Via Structures: Reflow Process Survivability, Reliability, and Robustness, the newest title in its technical resources library. Written by reliability expert Bob Neves, the book examines one of the industry's most misunderstood topics: how to properly evaluate PCB via structures for assembly process survivability, long-term reliability, and robustness.

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AE Industrial Partners, LP, a private investment firm focused on technologies and services critical to national and economic security, has finalized the acquisition of the space propulsion, power and electronics units from L3Harris Technologies, and is launching the entity as Rocketdyne.

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