The electrical engineering org will be responsible for a massive portion of our engineering. All electrons and waves will flow through hardware this org designs or integrates in software architectures they help architect. Notionally, I see this having several primary functions. These will be built out over the next decade until Mach is the best in the world at EE for defense.
RF/EW
Antenna Design - Designs antennas optimized for specific mission sets (or integrates COTS)
Radio/Radar Architecture - Selects and or designs optimized radio hardware architecture to minimize cost and power draw for a specific mission set. Eventually designs our own radios to scale.
Signals Processing - Writes algorithms and scripts to process or project RF data in useful ways
EW Architecting - Understands the state of the art to architect whole RF solutions to provide efficacy on the battlefield
Power Electronics
Board level design
Electric actuator/motor analysis and design
Power conversion
Electronics mass manufacture
Embedded Systems
Software <> Flight architecting and scaling
Sensors
Design and or integrate specific sensors into the airframe, either optical, inertial, or otherwise
We need to begin the buildout of this org immediately. The key reasons being -
Proper vehicle performance - right now, we don’t have the manpower or experience to effectively analyze our current avionics/wiring/comms stack to guarantee functionality.
Ramp - our avionics set is not scalable. For wiring harnessing, configuration, and test, we need to specifically refine this.
In House / Scaleability - If we go to war, the current electronics supply-chains will cripple us. We need to fix that.
EW - One of the biggest takeaways from the Ukraine war was the importance of EW. US munitions have failed time and time again. If we want to ship world class products that actually excel in theatre, we need to not only understand the state-of-the-art of this field, we need to create it.
Long term, by excelling at these areas of engineering, we can -
Reduce cost by in-housing components
Guarantee secure supply chains on things we can in-house
RF
Glide mesh networks and rapid SigInt
Home on signal
Replacing things after Kessler Syndrome
Electricity <> Propulsion is very exciting longterm
Best in class electric motors
MachJet (both)
Elite hybrid architectures (air&ground, carbon and hydrogen)
Ionic Scramjets (VLEO)
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