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Industries WE serve

Defence, Military and Aerospace

In mission-critical applications, a hardware failure is a mission failure. Severe thermal throttling or structural fatigue under high-G loads drops critical data links and blinds operators. Late-stage qualification failures result in missed program milestones and substantial cost overruns.

To protect budgets and timelines, hardware must transition predictably from concept to deployment.

The Operational Challenge:

Designing defence electronics and high-performance processing systems forces engineering teams into a compromise between performance and survivability. Systems must balance rigid SWaP constraints against extreme temperature cycling, intense vibration, multi-axis shock, and altitude changes.

Engineering the Solution

SOSA™ Aligned & CMOSS Development Hubs

3U VPX Chassis / OpenVPX Chassis:

Compact, portable lab host units designed to control conduction-cooled modules and high-power GPGPUs during early evaluation.

Predictable Migration:

Engineered for a seamless design transition from benchtop prototyping to a deployed conduction-cooled VPX chassis or finned passive configuration.

Flexible ATR Chassis Architecture

Rugged Mechanical Design:

Form factors optimized for ¼, ½, ¾, and full ATR footprints (available in Tall, Long, and Short variants).

Backplane Agility:

Full support for OpenVPX, VME, cPCI, and 3U/6U Eurocards across rugged, rackmount, or portable test environments.

Rugged Modules, Tactical Displays & Applications

Electronics Cooling Solutions:

3U/6U modules leveraging embedded heat pipes, liquid flow-through cooling, and liquid-over-conduction cooling to maximize heat dissipation.

Tactical Displays:

High-durability VESA, rackmount, and ground mobile touchscreens (Resistive, Capacitive, PCAP) built to withstand intense glare and mechanical shock.

Mission-Ready Engineering:

Comprehensive product engineering services for mission computers, embedded computing platforms, UAVs, autonomous systems, ground control systems, and defense electronics.

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Deploy with Confidence

We eliminate development risk by providing comprehensive hardware engineering services directly mapped to strict military and aerospace compliance standards:

MIL-STD-810 Testing & MIL-S-901:

Dedicated environmental resilience and high-impact shipboard mechanical shock survival.

DO-160 Compliance & DO-254:

Airborne environmental testing and safety-critical hardware assurance.

VITA 47 & VITA 65:

Strict adherence to environmental, design, and construction practices for COTS plug-in modules and SOSA aligned VPX chassis systems.

Innovation for All Industries

Don’t see your specific industry listed here? Many engineering challenges extend beyond a single market. If your project requires expert engineering capabilities, we'd be happy to discuss how STL Engineering can help.

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