Corporate Development Timeline

White Electronic Designs’ history encompasses more than fifty years of engineering creativity, customer focus, business-driven innovation and dedication to excellence.

1951: Edward White founded Bowmar Instrument Corporation

1963: Bowmar Instrument Corporation was listed on the American Stock Exchange with the trading symbol BOM

1971: Bowmar Instrument Corporation invented and introduced the first handheld calculator known as the “Bowmar Brain”

1980: Acquisition of Custom Devices, a supplier of a variety of analog, power and other custom hybrid devices. The name was changed to White Technology, Inc.

1986: White Technology Inc. acquired Bowmar Instrument Corporation

1988: White Technology became one of the few companies with its facility certified and qualified to MIL-STD-1772

1994: White Technology Inc. became White Microelectronics

1988-1998: White Technology (White Microelectronics) introduces over 300 ceramic hermetic high-rel COTS parts for the military embedded market. Because of their ruggedization and density advantages, multiple application wins on such programs as the M1A2 tank, European Fighter Aircraft and PAC3 missile ensure the company’s financial success.

1998: The merger of White Microelectronics and Electronic Designs, Inc. creates White Electronic Designs Corporation (WEDC) and establishes WEDC as a leading provider of semiconductor packaging and hi-performance memory products

1998-2008: Multiple business and technology acquisitions and consolidations strategically allowed WEDC to acquire the expertise that lead to the company becoming a recognized developer and supplier of:

Anti-tamper and information assurance technology for the defense aerospace market
Solid state disk drive technology for encrypted mass memory storage
Circuit card integration to support the defense need for electronic miniaturization in embedded systems.

During this same timeframe, White Electronic Designs:

Introduced over 50 new PEM COTS products for defense applications. Applications wins on Apache AH-64, AIM-9X, F35 and scores of others, continue to positively impact the company’s defense sales.
Through sophisticated custom packaging expertise and miniaturization technology, the company expanded into the GPS user equipment market, supporting the GPS wing with unique capability.

2007: White Electronic Designs receives Class K certification for its Phoenix, Arizona manufacturing facility as well as AS/9100 certifications for its four manufacturing facilities

2009: Shedding residual commercial and display operations, WEDC makes the strategic decision to focus entirely on the defense electronic and electromechanical markets.

2009: Gerald Dinkel becomes the new President of White Electronic Designs Corporation

2010: Microsemi Corporation acquires White Electronic Designs