Space Micro Selected as a Winner of the 2011 Small Business Administration (SBA) Tibbetts Awards

SAN DIEGO, CA – March 9, 2011 – Space Micro announced today that it has been selected by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a winner of the prestigious Tibbetts Awards. The award is in recognition of unique contributions as a model of excellence for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Individuals and companies selected for these national awards are recognized as having provided outstanding SBIR leadership in each state, region or the nation. Space Micro was represented at the awards ceremony in Washington, DC by CEO David Strobel.

“Space Micro has worked hard to produce several innovative products through the SBIR Program, and has experienced rapid growth over the past several years. The credit goes to our 44 employees who innovative and continue to generate new concepts while delivering space flight electronics systems for NASA and DoD programs,” Strobel said.

Space Micro has designed, manufactured and delivered several radiation hardened satellite electronics products for SBIR agencies such as Air Force, NASA, MDA, HSARPA, OSD, Army, Navy, and DTRA. At the ceremony, Space Micro was highlighted by the SBA Administrator, Karen Mills, as on of four “poster child” companies for commercialization success within the SBIR Program. Space Micro has participated in over 60 SBIR Programs and has been recognized for fast growth by the San Diego Business Journal and Inc. magazine.

About Space Micro Inc.

Space Micro Inc specializes in payload and communications equipment for satellites, and is a pioneer and leader in technologies that enable Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic devices to be deployed in space. Radiation in space is damaging to electronics. Space Micro has developed patented technologies to mitigate radiation effects on state-of-art commercial electronics. Space Micro offers space-qualified radiation hardened microelectronics, from radiation hardened by design (RHBD) technologies to space rated single board computers (RH SBC). Space Micro offers the world’s fastest space radiation hardened line of radiation hardened computers. These space computers include the Proton200k™ DSP-based RH SBC, Proton300k™ SRAM-based reconfigurable space computer (RH RCC), and Proton400k™ multi-core PowerPC-based RH SBC. In addition to satellite computers, Space Micro offers satellite communications equipment such as Space-Ground Link System (µSGLS™ / RH SGLS / RH SGLS-USB / µSTDN™ / RH STDN transponders), Ka Band transmitter (µKa™ Wide Band Radiation Hardened Transmitter), X/UHF/VHF-Band transponders and power amplifiers (RH PA) and custom boxes. Other Space Micro developments include ProtonX-Box™ Avionics Suite, TTMR™ (Time Triple Modular Redundancy), H-CORE™ circuitry for Single Events Functional Interrupt (SEFI) mitigation, SEMS™ Space Weather Box and Divert Attitude Control System (RH DACS). Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, CA, USA.

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