Avnet leverages our unique strength, scale and role as a trusted industry veteran to deliver reliable, sustainable solutions.

1. Defense-Aerospace
Solutions Guide

2. Development
Platforms
COTS DEFENSE-AEROSPACE Commercial
Grade
SERVICES & SUPPORT
Space Mil-Spec
Avnet Electronics Marketing helps defense-aerospace customers bridge the gap between legacy
and leading-edge — mil-spec and COTS — obsolescence and sustainability with a wide array of
technology options and value-add service offerings.

3. Differentiated Product Options
Avnet leverages our unique strength, scale and role as a trusted
industry veteran to deliver reliable, sustainable solutions.
Avnet offers a full portfolio of products, services and support to aid electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs), electronic manufacturing
services (EMS) providers, sub-contractors and integrators creating sophisticated applications for the defense-aerospace market. We offer a
dedicated military sales team, highly trained Field Application Engineers and a Web-based Design Resource Center that allows us to protect
customer design investments and extend product life cycles.
Board- and System-level Solutions Space
The cornerstone of Avnet’s design chain competencies is Avnet Avnet also offers a comprehensive portfolio of space and RadHard
Engineering Services — a group of technical experts that specialize products enhanced by exclusive space inventory programs with top
in implementing ASIC and FPGA solutions on a fee-for-service component manufacturers. Special programs include data pack
basis. The Avnet Engineering Services group designs development management. Avnet can also provide advice and technical insight
and evaluation platforms that support products from Avnet’s line into ruggedized products as well as test data to support specific
card partners. From board- to system-level solutions, Avnet has the customer requirements.
expertise to meet any design requirement — on or off the board.
COTS
Commercial Grade Avnet is one of the largest distributors of COTS components and
Avnet has strategic global relationships with best-in-class embedded products. The key to successfully supporting COTS
component manufacturers, which allow us to support entire bills of requirements is a proper ecosystem — from product and program
materials from resistors to FPGAs. Our online part search engine management to strategic relationships with manufacturers to the
and PartBuilder™ parametric search tool provide easy access to ability to support new product introductions and provide end-to-end
complete portfolios of semiconductor, interconnect, passive and supply chain management.
electromechanical products. Users of Avnet PartBuilder can build
part numbers from descriptions and technical attributes and perform Obsolescence
side-by-side comparisons of similar components. The wide array of products Avnet supplies to defense-aerospace
customers is complemented by a suite of component end-of-life
Mil-Spec (EOL) solutions that can mitigate the effects of semiconductor
Avnet offers the broadest selection of mil-spec products and obsolescence and counterfeit issues, allowing customers to avoid
custom value-add services available today. These products and costly redesign and component integrity issues. Through a select
services, such as military connector assembly, can be accessed number of aftermarket manufacturers, Avnet can offer products
via our Web site, which is powered by the industry’s largest and services such as custom die packaging, footprint adapters,
online component database. Behind the scenes, this database is test/screening and emulation. Our goal is to meet component
maintained and grown by defense-aerospace product and inventory needs, with a traceable pedigree, for the life of a design.
experts. This expertise is also evident in the “build your own bill of
materials” functionality embedded in our Web site.

4. Specialized Service Offerings
Avnet provides comprehensive supply chain and
integration services, strategic product intelligence and design
support for mission-critical projects and applications.
Avnet provides a full suite of services and support uniquely tailored to the needs of defense-aerospace contractors and integrators. This suite of
integration and value-add services is designed to help customers speed time-to-market by freeing-up critical engineering and manufacturing
resources that should be focused on achieving key milestones. Avnet’s supply chain management capabilities include order fulfillment, inventory
control, storage and consignment programs and point of use replenishment.
Technology Education Systems Integration Services
Avnet’s engineering teams spend countless hours with line card Avnet simplifies and streamlines development and delivery of
partners to craft technical education programs that accelerate technical solutions by providing Systems Integration Services
the learning curve on new products and technologies. SpeedWay that enable customers to maximize company resources, operate
Design Workshops™ are hands-on training classes that feature more efficiently and reduce new product development costs. From
technical presentations as well as hardware-based lab exercises. drive duplication to fully integrated systems ready for shipment to
On-Ramp Technical Sessions™ are two-hour technical sessions, end customers, Avnet can fulfill any requirement. The integration
typically held over lunch at the customer’s facility, that meld tool services team includes design, integration, sales and technology-
demonstrations with instruction on specific technologies or design specific engineers who can help sort through myriad technologies
topics. These workshops and technical sessions are conducted and identify the best option for a given set of requirements.
by teams of local field application engineers with a focus on jump These services can be utilized at specific phases of the product
starting new or ongoing design efforts. development life cycle or throughout the entire cycle.
SDB Solutions Value-Add Services
Avnet’s Diversity Partner Program helps minimize risk and Avnet has one of the broadest offerings of physical value-add
maximize flexibility throughout the product development life cycle. services in the industry, specializing in services that provide
Avnet has formed strategic alliances with small businesses to help cost and time-to-market advantages so that our customers
these companies achieve development and revenue goals. can concentrate solely on the aspects of business that provide
the most return. Add a well-deserved reputation for customer
Supply Chain Management service, and it’s easy to see why Avnet adds value to hundreds of
Avnet offers a host of best-in-class supply chain services, customers each day. Services include commercial interconnect
which include order fulfillment, inventory control, storage and assembly, custom cable assembly, custom packaging, device
consignment and point of use replenishment. Specialized or programming, high-reliability and military connector assembly,
customized solutions can also be created after comprehensive motor modification, power supply modification and thermal
supply chain assessments are performed. management.

5. Avnet electronics MArketing DEFENSE-AEROSPACE SOLUTIONS
Defense-Aerospace Services and Support
For more than 80 years, Avnet has served the defense-aerospace and
high-reliability markets, offering cradle-to-grave solutions that minimize
design and supply chain disruptions and extend product life cycles.
Avnet offers more than just traditional distribution services and Avnet offers best-in-class supply chain services with a focus on
socket-level support by making it a point to understand total order fulfillment, inventory control, storage and consignment and
system requirements for mission-critical projects and applications. point of use replenishment. Leveraging internal competencies
Countless defense-aerospace customer engagements have of global warehousing, logistics and asset management with
shown that a one-size-fits-all approach to design support isn’t objective, industry-wide data, Avnet helps customers introduce
nearly as effective as deploying technical resources on a case-by- and sustain differentiated products in the most cost-effective
case basis to meet specific customer needs. means possible.
Design Chain Solutions Supply Chain Solutions
Assembly, Programming & Physical Value-Add Services Line Card
» Device programming » Long-standing relationships with industry-leading
» Defense-aerospace connector assembly component manufacturers
» Power supply modification » Extensive catalog of COTS products
» Thermal management » Volume purchasing power
» Highly flexible manufacturing Component Intelligence
Design Tools » Avnet PartBuilder™
» Design Resource Center » Bill of materials (BOM) analysis and optimization
» Development and evaluation kits » Prómiere/Parts Universe database
» Embedded board and OS solutions » Market and technology trend data
» IP cores » Inventory optimization services
» Technology Review » Green initiative programs
Engineering Services & Support Supply Chain Assessment
» ASIC design / FPGA design » Discovery and logistical analysis
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» Systems design » Financial analysis
» Locally-deployed Field Application Engineers » Project implementation
» Design service partners Inventory Management Solutions
Integration Services » Order fulfillment
» Hardware configuration » Bonded inventory programs
» Software configuration » EDI Point of Use Replenishment Systems (POURS)
» Packaging and logistics » Vendor-managed inventory
» Maintenance » In-plant stores
» Post-sales support » New product introduction (NPI) program support
» Pipeline inventory from forecasts
Technical Education
» Inventory ownership programs
» SpeedWay Design Workshops™
» On-Ramp Technical Sessions™
» Seminars / Web seminars

6. OBSOLESCENCE
Extending the life of your systems
RELIABILITY
Selecting and qualifying parts appropriate for your application
TECHNOLOGY
Understanding and implementing the latest innovations
LEGACY
Supporting your long production cycle and yesterday’s design
DESIGN TIME
FOR
It’s about more than technology,
it’s about sustaining technology over time
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