The Armag Corporation of Bardstown, Kentucky, is a provider of high-security, modular, and transportable secure facilities as spy-proof shelters.

Steve Cunningham has been appointed to the newly created position of Production Manager at MPE.

In February 2023 independent UK defence electronics manufacturer MPE of Liverpool became the first manufacturer globally to publish independent test certificates confirming the compliance of its HEMP (High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse) protection filters with the requirements of the latest defence standard, Mil-Std-188-125-1A.

MPE has been honoured with the first ever King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation.

BBC TV’s flagship drama ‘Vigil’ caught the public's imagination, and so became essential viewing for many in September.

The resilience of power systems against interruption or damage caused by hostile electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats is nowhere more important than in critical defence infrastructure such as air force bases. Here, Paul Currie, Director at MPE Ltd, discusses.

The Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group was chosen to supply 25 new simulator shelters to Lockheed Martin for use by the UK MoD and specifically the British Army.

In most situations nowadays, systems must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and operate safely and securely without any interruption in service due to interference. That is no more so than in the universe of EMC test chambers. Such specialised chambers test electronic devices against regulatory standards applicable to both radiated and conducted radio-frequency (RF) emissions and immunity. MPE discusses.

Paul Currie, Director, MPE Ltd provides commentary on the current supply chain challenges being faced by manufacturers.

To prevent the covert interrogation of conducted lines, MPE Ltd design and manufacture TEMPEST specification filters, in both standard and custom formats, that offer high insertion loss performance across a very wide frequency spectrum.

During the past five years intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI) has emerged as a credible and increasingly likely threat to commercial and defence facilities alike, with a potentially crippling cost to individual organisations of such a localised attack. Paul Currie, Director, MPE Ltd discusses.

  Increasingly manufacturers are offering an extended warranty with a new EMC or EMP filter. That doesn’t make it more reliable or long-lasting, argues Paul Currie  

MPE has announced that it now provides a sophisticated pre-compliance EMC testing service, which can be either on-site or in-house in MPE's dual-chamber screened room to suit customers’ needs where practical. Typical scenarios for applying this capability include military vehicles, test chambers, data centres, radar and communications facilities and control rooms.

The well-established procedure for checking compliance of a HEMP filter with the Mil-Std-188-125 specification is to inject a very high current pulse into the front end of the filter and monitor the residual current flowing through. Such Pulse Current Injection (PCI) testing is conducted independently of the filter manufacturer, by trusted test houses utilising specialist and often proprietary equipment. No test house in Europe offers such commer...

The Sun has always been benign towards the Earth, providing light and heat essential to the growth of civilisations. However, as our technology has advanced, so the Sun has become a threat too, with its constantly changing surface plasma creating magnetic storms. Paul Currie, Sales & Marketing Director, MPE, discusses the potential impact of these solar storms in more depth.

RAF Fylingdales located at Snod Hill, near Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors, is an integral part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) for UK and US defence, with a secondary duty of detecting, reporting and tracking satellite activity, given that many currently in orbit are of a military nature and able to gather intelligence using diverse covert techniques.

Based upon satellites, Presidential and National Voice Conferencing (PNVC) is a second-generation follow-on communications capability with roots in the Milstar Survivable Emergency Conferencing Network (SECN). Ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the programme reside within the FAB-T Terminal Program Office and, with PNVC set to play a critical role in the future of the US nuclear command and control infrastructure, PNVC has received t...

  Following a rigorous and extensive design proving exercise, MPE was awarded the contract to supply a quantity of its 1,200A HEMP filters for installation on a critical defence application in Virginia, US. The contract award was made via MPE’s distributor in the US, Technical Sales Solutions (TSS).

While the defence sector has historically been and remains MPE’s largest market, the same high levels of quality, performance and reliability demanded by this sector are also required by the medical and scientific markets. Accordingly MPE has been supplying its high-performance feedthrough products to e2v Technologies since 1999, some 18 years ago. Via its Medical Division based in Chelmsford, Essex, e2v have long supplied products int...

At the 13th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) which ran from 9th to 12th May at the TÜYAP Fair Convention and Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey, MPE’s distributor in Turkey, IMCA Elektronik was present. The biennial IDEF remains the largest defence industry event in the Eurasian region and one of the top five defence exhibitions in the world. Building on their success at previous IDEF events and celebrating their 1...