Intevac Inc. Receives $3.0 Million LIVAR® Contract Award
January 14, 2020 at 07:40 pm IST
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Intevac, Inc. announced it has received a $3.0 million contract award from Northrop Grumman Corporation for follow-on production deliveries of Intevac’s M506 LIVAR camera. Shipments from this award will begin in the first half of 2020. About LIVAR M506 Camera: The Intevac Laser Illuminated Viewing and Ranging M506 SWIR camera is designed for use in a wide range of military and security applications including long-range target identification system payloads. The LIVAR M506 camera is a compact camera system that enables system integration with an eye-safe laser illuminator to range and view images of targets up to 20 kilometers away. Intevac’s LIVAR® technology is analogous to RADAR but with a number of improvements. The system works day or night, regardless of available light. The illuminator is an eye safe laser and the reflected light is displayed as a digital video image. This enables real time, high-resolution imagery for target identification at much longer ranges than was previously possible. Intevac’s digital night-vision sensors, based on its patented Electron Bombarded Active Pixel Sensor (EBAPS®) technology, provide capability to the most advanced avionic fighting platforms in the U.S. Department of Defense inventory.
Intevac, Inc. is a provider of thin-film process technology and manufacturing platforms for high-volume manufacturing environments. The Company operates through a single segment, which is Thin Film Equipment (TFE). The TFE segment designs, develops and markets vacuum process equipment solutions for high-volume manufacturing of small substrates with precise thin-film properties, such as for the hard disk drive (HDD) and advanced coatings (ADVC) markets, as well as other adjacent thin-film markets. In HDD Equipment Market, it designs, manufactures, markets and services complex capital equipment used to deposit thin films and lubricants onto substrates to produce magnetic disks. In ADVC Market, the Company develops equipment to deposit optically transparent thin films onto display cover panels typically found on consumer and automotive electronics products. Its products include 200 Lean Disk Sputtering System, TRIO, and upgrades, spares, consumables and services (non-systems business).