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Friday, October 21, 2011

Calumet Wins SBIR Award from U.S. Navy Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division

For Immediate Release

Calumet, MI (October 21, 2011) – Calumet Electronics Corp. (Calumet), a leading US manufacturer of printed circuit boards, announced today that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Contract Award from the Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division. The Phase I objective of the award, valued at about $80,000, is to conduct research under SBIR Topic N112-122 entitled "Embedded Single Mode Wave Guides for High Data Rate Processing"

Stephen J. Marshall, Sponsored Programs Manager of Calumet, stated, "Our Optical Interconnect Team has successfully produced electro/optical printed circuit boards (EOPCB) and assemblies (EOPCBA) on rigid substrates using polymer waveguides and surface mounted light turning devices in our Optical Interconnect Research Lab (OIRL). Calumet's proposal demonstrated an in-depth command of the technical and development challenges for the requirements of this award." Mr. Marshall continued, "New, more powerful generations of digital signal processing (DSP) chips with parallel-processing capabilities continue to meet escalating demand for the increased computing power and speed required in avionic Electrical Warfare (EW) and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) applications. Electrical transmission inter-connect traces have already begun to limit overall capabilities and create multiple signal routing difficulties because of bandwidth limitations and high bandwidth design requirements. Optical waveguides, with their inherently large transmission bandwidth capabilities, can be utilized to alleviate this digital data transmission bottleneck and overcome bandwidth limitations."

About Calumet
Since 1968, Calumet's been manufacturing hi-reliability printed circuit boards. Every board is proudly built in the security of its Calumet, MI, USA facility. The company is registered as a Small Business by the SBA. Financial strength is continually rated at 4A1 by D&B. Product realization is achieved within a quality system registered to ISO9001:2000 and certified by the Department of Defense to Military Performance Specifications for Printed Circuit Boards; MIL-PRF-31032 and MIL-PRF-55110. Corporate focus hasn't changed in 40 years; provide optimum value in every board and to every relationship! At 40, Calumet remains committed to providing value beyond performance!

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