– This partnership is essential for us since it provides access to FOI’s knowledge and resources, which enhances our competitiveness in the civil and military markets, says Sören Poulsen, Program Area Manager - Radomes and Antennas, CAC.

CAC specializes in composite material solutions for civilian industry and military applications. The company has one of the most advanced compact test ranges in the world for radome and antenna measurements. Specialized measurements that are not possible for the compact test range will now be performed within the framework of the partnership with FOI using their unique resources and equipment. Through the collaboration, CAC also benefits from the knowledge and research experience that FOI has built up in this field.

The partnership provides FOI with insight into the technological demands and problems of current interest to the industry, and FOI can in return present a clearer image of important fields in research and technology development useful to customers within both the military and civil aerospace industry. This partnership also provides FOI with additional possibilities to support the Swedish Armed Forces and FMV, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration.

– It is important to us that our research results can be transferred to industry, and the partnership with CAC is a good example of how this technology transfer can be of mutual benefit, says Sören Svensson, Head of the Functional Materials Dept. at the FOI Div. of Sensor Technology.

The agreement is planned to extend over a period of five years.

FOI and CAC have a previous partnership supported by FMV covering the interaction of materials and structures with  microwave (radar) radiation in material.

For further details, please contact:
Sören Poulsen, Program Area Manager, CAC +46 372 672 11, +46 705 28 97 19, soren.poulsen@acab.se 
Sören Svensson, Head of Functional Materials Dept, FOI, +46 13-37 82 56, +46 70 927 74 92, soren.svensson@foi.se
Cecilia Kallhagen, Press Officer, FOI, +46 70 927 70 67

ABOUT CAC
Chelton Applied Composites AB is a high-tech company, specialized in advanced composite solutions for industrial and military applications. We are situated at the Malmen Military Airfield in Linköping, Sweden. With CAC’s resources for product development, design, testing, qualification, production and maintenance, we are the leading applied composite technology experts in the Nordic countries. Chelton Applied Composites AB has some 70 employees, and an annual turnover of 100 million SEK (2004). The company is part of the British-based Cobham Plc. 

ABOUT FOI
The Swedish Defence Research Agency is an assignment-based authority under the Ministry of Defence. The core activities are research, method and technology development, as well as studies for the use of defence and security. The organisation employs around 1250 people of whom around 900 are researchers. This makes FOI the largest research institute in Sweden. FOI provides its customers with leading expertise in a large number of fields such as security-policy studies and analyses in defence and security, assessment of different types of threats, systems for control and management of crises, protection against and management of hazardous substances, IT-security and the potential of new sensors. For more information visit www.foi.se.

Radome technology
A radome is a dome placed in front of a radar antenna either as protection against weather conditions or as a mean to improve the aerodynamic qualities of an aircraft with a radar antenna. Radome technology is of great significance because most civil and military aircraft are equipped with radar, and to optimise radome design is important to flying qualities and radar performance.

FSS
FSS or frequency selective surface is a surface that has different transmission and reflection qualities for different frequency bands. Among other things, FSS is used in radomes in order to achieve high transmission within a selected radar system frequency band, but low transmission for other radar systems, not operating on the same frequency band.