AKON recently has custom designed and moved into a brand-new 25,500-square-foot "state-of-the-art" facility located in the heart of Silicon Valley. With an additional 10,000 square-feet, we have been able to expand our workflow needs and provide ample space to handle, today's and tomorrow's, cutting edge microwave technology. Here at Akon, we believe in order to be a viable vendor one has to constantly be evolving with todays standards. Our custom facility exactly does that. In our new facility one will find cleanliness is of most importance. By introducing a cleanroom ESD protected raised floor we have created a true lab type atmoshphere which allows the manufacturing area to remain well organized and clean and keeps all wires and electrical points to remain beneath the floor. With a rasied floor we have also introduced the highest level of "air filter flow concentration" to keep air circulating to a near Class 10,000. Additionally, we have incoporated a new card access system as well as cammera system to ensure the highest level of secuirty for ourselves and more importantly our customers. With many other improvements one will find a newer and more robust Akon, designed and equipped to exceed rigorous customer requirements from engineering concepts through large "manufacturing runs" for today's global market.

In addition to the above, we have in-house CAD stations, the latest microwave test equipment, ATE's, Hybrid Technology, Environmental Lab for E.S.S. (Environmental Stress Screening) per MIL-883C, and a clean room area for space-flight hardware fabrication.

AKON has a team of high caliber engineers with over 30 plus years of industry experience. Our engineers' primary focus is bringing design to reality. For complex state of the art EW (electronic warfare) receivers, concept to hardware is achieved in a short time span of 3 to 4 months or even less. Our talented engineers are very well versed in combining MIC, MMIC, Hybrid Thin and Thick Film technologies all packaged in a single unit. With the aid of latest CAD tools, simulation software, test equipment and most importantly, engineering ingenuity, Akon has accomplished numerous engineering feats and is the reason why we are a leading manufacturer of cutting edge microwave products for airborne, ground, shipboard, space and a growing communication market. This was demonstrated on the space program known as "MIRO". Akon engineers were able to package 6 amplifiers, 23 filters, several power dividers, detectors, A/D converters, nine mixers and extensive support circuitry in just a 8.0" x 6.0" x 1.2" box.

AKON's manufacturing floor surpasses the highest of standards. With a "built-in quality" system, each individual on the assembly line has undergone an exceptional level of training on the most up-to-date manufacturing techniques, including ESD protection.

To facilitate tuning and testing, Akon has over 25 microwave test stations. Each station is equipped with 100MHz to 20GHz signal source, Scalar Analyzer, scope, temperature plates (hot and cold), and ancillary equipment. A large sum of the test stations are computer controlled with application specific software developed to make typical microwave and DLVA measurements. The MIC assembly line is equipped with several wire bonding machines such as gold and aluminum wire bonding, gap welding, and eutetic die attach. This area is also equipped with a Plasma Cleaning System to ensure high reliability wire bonding. Focused on quality, Akon produces a spectrum of highly sophisticated microwave components and super components for major programs, some having production runs as long as nine years."

AKON considers quality assurance a major element of product and management performance. Our quality system conforms to MIL-I-45208 and subsequent revisions. Requirements beyond this including MIL-PRF-38534D and elements of MIL-M-38510, are common but are applied to specific customer contracts. Akon has a fully instrumented environmental testing laboratory for mechanical shock, thermal cycling, stabilization bake, and automatic thermal shock for environmental performance testing, as well as in-process screening. Products moving through manufacturing are processed through six quality inspection points as a minimum.