As our name implies, Applied Radar Inc. specializes in advanced radar systems development, and technologies (such as transceivers, antennas and real-time processing) that support radar systems. Our applications range from airborne and UAV-based radars to battlefield radars for defeating mortar and artillery fire to low-cost automotive radars. With a focus on hardware development, our approach is to develop new technologies such as digital beamforming, MMIC phased-array antennas, conformal antennas, and radar-on-a-chip (ROC) architectures and integrate them into prototype sensing systems. Our primary customer is the US Military (Air Force, Army, Navy), but we are also pursuing other commercial and foreign military markets as well.

Applied Radar, Inc. is a pioneer in the development of "next-generation radar systems." Radar systems as we know them are going to change drastically in the next few years. In fact, the term "radar system" is being replaced with "sensor system", particularly for airborne applications, as the limited antenna aperture is being required to perform communications and electronic warefare applications in additional to radar sensing. Except in very high-power radar systems (typically ship-based or ground-based), radar tubes such as Magnetrons and Klystrons (typically with high peak power but low duty cycle) are being replaced with solid-state arrays that can achieve moderate peak power and high duty cycle by arraying many elements with just a few Watts each. Phased array antennas are replacing mechanically-scanned dish and slot antennas, allowing rapid scanning and lower profile arrays. Digital beamforming is finding its way closer and closer to the element, as the size, cost and power consumption of digital components are reduced while their speed is increased. Finally, chip-level integration of radar front-end components (both RF and digital) is predicted to allow much smaller and lower-cost arrays, and help make digital beamforming at the element level affordable.

Applied Radar is well positioned to capture market share as older radar technologies are phased out, replaced by the demand for newer solid-state and digital arrays that are smaller, lighter, lower-cost, higher performing, more accurate. Applied Radar is able to develop a leading market in advanced radar through the DoD SBIR program. The large prime DoD contractors (Northrup Grumman, Boeing, BAE Systems, Raytheon) are now realizing that they cannot do everything in house and would rather subcontract work to small companies such as Applied Radar, Inc. with innovative technology to offer. The primes would rather provide the role of "system integrator", and leave high-risk technology development to companies such as Applied Radar. Combined with the aging population of radar engineers and the fact that schools are not training enough new radar engineers, Applied Radar is rapidly developing a niche in advanced radar system development.