Ensuring resilience in air force base infrastructure
Summary
High-performance protection filters with high reliability address the demands for resilience – as well as compliance with exacting military standards – and have become mandatory in the interests of national security. There has always been a need to ensure effective electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) between disparate systems co-located in an environment congested with equipment, but more recently concerns about resilience have risen to the top of the agenda. As part of this contract award, following extensive design work MPE was engaged to supply a suite of HEMP filters compliant with Mil-Std-188-125 and all the specified site requirements. These MPE protection filters, installed by systems integrator ATEC Shielding LLC of Elkridge, Maryland, were of modular construction and included both two-line and four-line variants, ranging from 32A through to 400A current ratings. EMC and EMP protection technology from MPE is keeping pace with the latest developments, as defence systems and assets evolve with increasing rapidity in the 21st century.