Advanced Radiofrequency Production Facility
ARA’s 12,000-square-foot production facility in Lafayette, Colorado is dedicated solely to the design, fabrication, and testing of the advanced antennas, radomes, and other radio frequency (RF) components…
Electromagnetics & RF Technologies
ARA specializes in scientific services, products, and research and development for defense and commercial applications in the areas of electromagnetic propagation and scattering, design and fabrication of antennas and radomes, RF measurement testing services, electro-optics, RF materials, microelectronics, and computational modeling and simulation.
ARA serves the U.S. military, government, aerospace, and related defense and commercial industries, in the areas of computational analysis, design, measurement, validation and verification of technologies involving the electromagnetic spectrum, covering radio frequency, microwave, millimeter wave, terahertz, infrared, and electro-optical wavelengths.
The company’s highly skilled staff of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists represents a small community of experts nationwide that perform and provide critical foundational research, development, and hardware fabrication that makes our military forces more effective and safe; aircraft and ground vehicles more capable in areas of communication, navigation and low observability; and methodologies and equipment that enable continued development of advanced technologies.
When faced with the challenge to solve complex computing issues in the most efficient manner possible, U.S. government agencies turn to the ARA electromagnetics team.
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Compact Range Measurements
ARA develops custom test fixtures, models and simulations, data extraction techniques, and tools to provide critical data improvements in low observability and overall improved RF performance.
Custom RF Test Fixtures
ARA develops custom test fixtures, models and simulations, data extraction techniques, and tools to provide critical data improvements in low observability and overall improved RF performance.
Direct Illumination Chamber for RF Measurement
ARA has extensive experience in the characterization of flight-ready EW radomes.
Electromagnetic Testing and Technology Development Center
ARA’s Electromagnetic Testing & Technology Development Center provides electromagnetic design, development and testing services for a wide range of applications…
High Temperature Measurements and Material Property Testing
ARA’s high temperature measurement services offer the ability to extract material properties such as permittivity and permeability as a function of frequency and temperature…
Multi-Spectral Measurement Laboratory
As a state-of-the-art measurement facility, our Multi-Spectral Measurement Lab (MSL) sets the standard in using best practices for physics-based data collections…
RF Material Characterization
ARA offers unmatched expertise in RF materials research, measurement, and analysis to characterize the behavior of advanced materials with certain frequencies and orientations.
RF Transmission Tunnel
Panel testing in ARA’s RF Transmission Tunnel provides the ability to test and optimize composite materials throughout the development cycle prior to full scale fabrication and integration.
