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PCB Piezotronics has announced the formation of the PCB Aerospace & Defense Division, a technical sales, marketing, product, and program management group based within PCB worldwide headquarters. The new group will specialize in products and programs for the global aerospace, civil and military aviation, defense, homeland security, nuclear, and test and measurement markets.

Products include space-rated high-temperature and high-g–shock accelerometers; space-qualified hardware; sensors and instrumentation for Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS), unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and ground vehicles; system electronics; combustion-monitoring pressure sensors; high-temperature engine vibration-monitoring sensors; launch and separation shock sensors; active noise cancellation products; and aircraft hydraulic pressure sensors, among others.

Typical applications for the products include vibration and fatigue testing; qualification testing; aircraft and engine ground, flutter, and flight testing; blast pressure and hydraulic system pressure measurements; structural dynamics; engine vibration monitoring; launch and separation shock studies; pressure, wind tunnel, and aerodynamic studies; aircraft and ground vehicle prognostics; and noise cancellation applications.

Overseeing the new division as senior director is Ronald J. Livecchi, a 30-year aerospace industry veteran. Livecchi is responsible for worldwide strategic target market development, including program management, technical sales, marketing, applications engineering, and customer service for sensors and related instrumentation. The group will also include targeted applications engineering and customer service assistance, with a global direct sales force geographically situated according to customer needs.