Defence and aerospace
Platform power, EMC and the cyber requirement that flows down with the contract.
Who buys this: Primes, sub-tier suppliers and MOD delivery teams.
Why it matters now
This is the sector Intepro UK has the longest record in, and the record is public rather than asserted: DE&S holds a current contract with Intepro UK Limited for in-service support of Power Supply Unit Automatic Test Equipment supporting UK Air Defence, awarded on the basis that Intepro is the OEM and design authority for it.
What the work actually involves
Platform DC supplies tested to Def Stan 61-005 rather than the American equivalent; EMC to Def Stan 59-411; and, increasingly, a cyber requirement that arrives with the purchase order. DEFCON 658 flows down the supply chain, so a delivered test system is in scope even when the contract is with somebody three tiers up. On a test rig the controls land mostly on the executive and the delivered software, not on the power hardware.
Assessed against
Systems we build for it
- AMF 400 Hz aircraft AC source
400 Hz ground power for airborne equipment test.
- AFV and AFV+ programmable AC source
General-purpose programmable AC where the requirement is a clean, controllable supply rather than grid emulation.
- Accelerated life and burn-in systems
Environmental stress screening and life test.
Equipment it usually needs
- AMF 400 Hz aircraft AC source and ground power unitSupplied and integrated
500 VA – 400 kVA · 115/200 V ±10% · 400 Hz fixed or 350–450 Hz adjustable · single and three-phase
- AFV+ programmable AC sourceSupplied and integrated
15 kVA – 2 MVA · 300 V L-N, 400 V and 600 V optional · 45–65 Hz, options to 840 Hz · up to 2777 A
- AFC series AC source and frequency converterSupplied and integrated
0.5 kVA – 2 MVA · 5–300 V L-N (8–520 V L-L three-phase) · 47–63 Hz standard, 45–500 Hz Type B · 30 models
Talk it through
Tell us the standard and the device under test. That is enough for an engineer to answer usefully instead of sending a brochure.