LOS ANGELES, 20 March 2007. Admiralty Partners Inc. has acquired the aerospace and defense business units of Vertical Circuits Inc. (VCI). The new company, renamed Trident Space & Defense LLC, is headquartered in Torrance, Calif.
Trident Space & Defense LLC is composed of three operating units. The Advanced Products business unit designs advanced custom multi-chip modules and dense systems-in-a-package solutions for aerospace and defense applications. The Space Electronic Components business unit is a supplier of high-reliability electronic components and design support services to the space industry. The Ground Systems business unit supplies custom, turnkey full-tracking ground stations to the commercial space industry.
VCI was formed by the merger of TRW Components International, a unit of TRW Inc., now a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation and Cubic Memory Inc., in October 1999.
