Who we
are
API Europe Limited is a division of Advanced Programs Inc., which
was founded in the USA in 1969 as MESA Technology Corporation to market signal processing
products into the local DoD community. Advanced Programs, Inc. has been a supplier to the
US intelligence Community and select NATO governments for over 25 years. API, based in
Columbia, Maryland is an NSA endorsed Tempest production facility staffed by NSA trained
and regulated TEMPEST engineers. US website is
www.advprograms.com
API Europe Ltd is a subsidiary of Advanced Programs Inc.
and based in the UK. It was established to develop new products and provide support to the
European Reseller Network throughout NATO Europe. API Europe offers improved capabilities
providing a European production and repair facility for Tempest product, enhancing and
complementing the range of Tempest equipment designed and manufactured in the USA.
New API acquisition
In December
2007 API announced that it had acquired BAE Systems’ TEMPEST products
business.
The TEMPEST
products business develops and produces custom engineered computers,
workstations and peripherals that meet the National Security Agency’s
TEMPEST standard for limiting electromagnetic emissions from electronic
equipment to safeguard data. It has approximately 40 employees at its
design, engineering and manufacturing operation in Tewksbury,
Massachusetts.
“We are very
pleased to have the opportunity to expand our TEMPEST business and add
the impressive capabilities and expertise resident in Tewksbury to our
own” said Steven Rice, President and CEO of Advanced Programs, inc. “The
combined operations will have an ability to address large-scale TEMPEST
design, development and production programs that is unmatched anywhere
in the world.”
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