Case Study: ITT Inc. achieves faster engineer onboarding and accelerates AN/FPS‑85 radar re‑engineering with Altium (Altium Designer)

High-tech Us Defense Contractor Itt Corporation, Systems Division Switches To Altium Designer For Its Complex Re-engineering Projects

ITT Systems Division of ITT Corporation, a prime contractor on the US Air Force SENSOR program, needed to re-engineer the signal-processing electronics for the AN/FPS-85 phased-array radar. The project demanded cutting‑edge designs using real‑time Java on high‑performance programmable devices and three‑ to five‑layer circuit boards, all under rigorous defense development and approval cycles where accuracy, reliability and productivity were critical.

ITT chose Altium Designer for its unified, easy‑to‑learn environment and comprehensive toolset. Altium was deployed across the division, enabling new users to ramp up in about half a day, boosting engineer productivity, and providing responsive support; as a result the team is advancing the Eglin radar re‑engineering work without the limitations of previous tools.

ITT Inc.

Ted Walford

Engineering Services Manager