Mustang exploits modern technologies to provide state-of-the-art radar performance at mass-market prices.

Radar Systems Engineering

Mustang's team includes nationally-recognized experts in designing and developing weapon systems, RF systems, antennas, phased-array antenna systems, advanced missile systems and seekers, radar and anti-radiation homing (ARH) modes of operation and imaging infrared (IIR) systems. While with Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group, team members were key contributors to Paveway, Shrike, HARM, HTS, JSOW, JAVELIN, ERGM and many other fielded weapon systems.

RF Electronics

From high performance RF to high-speed digital, Mustang team members readily employ the latest tools and techniques in designing and testing efficient hardware for state-of-the-art weapons systems. The Mustang team is accustomed to working the full spectrum of the system - the antenna, the LNA, down conversion, local oscillators, IF strips, D/A conversion, FPGA, and processor functions.

Radar Signal processing

Mustang team members have implemented numerous real-time algorithms on a wide array of industry-standard digital signal processors, microprocessors, digital hardware, field programmable gate arrays and proprietary architectures. We use the development tools for Analog Devices and Texas Instruments DSPs and comfortably write code in assembly, C, C++, Fortran and ADA languages.

Digital Electronics

From high performance RF to high-speed digital, Mustang team members readily employ the latest tools and techniques in designing and testing efficient hardware for state-of-the-art weapons systems. The Mustang team is accustomed to working the full spectrum of the system - the antenna, the LNA, down conversion, local oscillators, IF strips, D/A conversion, FPGA, and processor functions.

Real-time Software Development

Mustang team members have implemented numerous real-time algorithms on a wide array of industry-standard digital signal processors, microprocessors, digital hardware, field programmable gate arrays and proprietary architectures. We use the development tools for Analog Devices and Texas Instruments DSPs and comfortably write code in assembly, C, C++, Fortran and ADA languages.

From the simplest subsystems to entire weapons systems, from conops to production, the Mustang team produces efficient and effective solutions for today's warfighter.

Concepts of Operations

Mustang engineers have developed numerous weapons systems from initial concept creation to hardware production. We couple a solid understanding of physics, weapons systems and key enabling technologies, such as radar, anti-radiation homing (ARH) and image processing, with an agile, innovative company culture, positioning us to move rapidly from problem to fully-functioning solution.

Systems Engineering

Mustang's team includes nationally-recognized experts in designing and developing weapon systems, RF systems, antennas, phased-array antenna systems, advanced missile systems and seekers, radar and anti-radiation homing (ARH) modes of operation and imaging infrared (IIR) systems. While with Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group, team members were key contributors to Paveway, Shrike, HARM, HTS, JSOW, JAVELIN, ERGM and many other fielded weapon systems.

Mechanical Design

The Mustang team is adept at designing and fabricating test equipment, prototype assemblies and production assemblies. We have developed airframes to house Mustang's radars for collecting data in free fall and assemblies for mounting the radars on various aircraft including F-16s. All of our assemblies undergo thermal, stress and shock analyses, including finite-element analysis and traditional methods.

Hardware Design

From high performance RF to high-speed digital, Mustang team members readily employ the latest tools and techniques in designing and testing efficient hardware for state-of-the-art weapons systems. The Mustang team is accustomed to working the full spectrum of the system - the antenna, the LNA, down conversion, local oscillators, IF strips, D/A conversion, FPGA, and processor functions.

Software Design

From graphical user interfaces to control code to real-time algorithm implementation, Mustang's software engineers have extensive experience developing software for defense and commercial applications. We are comfortable writing code in assembly, C, C++, Fortran and ADA languages.

Prototype Production Facility

From antennas to power distribution, Mustang has equipped its prototype production facility with the tools and test equipment required to prototype and test developmental circuits and systems. The company's microwave and RF test hardware includes an anechoic chamber, which can test up to 20 GHz, as well as a full array of RF test equipment including network analyzers, spectrum analyzers and synthesized signal sources. Mustang staff use the facility's logic analyzers and digital high-speed oscilloscopes to evaluate the processing and control portions of systems, and the environmental chamber to fully characterize systems over temperature.

During their tenure at Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group (TI Defense), Mustang engineers pioneered ARH solutions.

Concepts of Operations

Mustang engineers have developed numerous weapons systems from initial concept creation to hardware production. We couple a solid understanding of physics, weapons systems and key enabling technologies, such as radar and image processing, with an agile, innovative company culture, positioning us to move rapidly from problem to fully-functioning solution.

At TI Defense, Mustang engineers developed the first All-digital Missile Guidance system.

Guidance and Control

Mustang team members have extensive experience in body-fixed guidance, nonlinear guidance, autopilot design and error-tolerant radar guidance algorithms. A team member developed the first all-digital guidance and control implementation for a tactical missile (HARM 1974), and Mustang team members have been key contributors to the guidance systems for HARM, Paveway, JSOW, JAVELIN, ERGM, XM982, Seek-Spinner and Tacit Rainbow and to the GBU-15 All Weather Upgrade, which had its first successful flight less than 45 days after program launch.

Algorithm Development

Mustang team members have developed algorithms for an extensive array of military and commercial applications, which are currently operating in millions of devices worldwide. When developing algorithms for space-time adaptive processing, fixed-body guidance, bullet and projectile detection, tracking and shooter localization, direction finding (DF), target detection, target classification, target recognition, terrain profiling, sensor fusion, foliage penetration, automatic waveform selection, pulse compression, Doppler processing, range sidelobe suppression, infrared image processing, feature extraction, terminal guidance, or other applications, Mustang engineers rely on solid physical modeling, simulation and analysis to develop efficient, high-performance algorithms.

Simulation and Analysis

Mustang recognizes both the value of validated, high-fidelity simulations and the utility of fast-running, lower-fidelity simulations. Beginning with thorough, first-principles analysis and then gradually validating and increasing the fidelity of simulations during the product development cycle, we strive to find the right fidelity balance for each phase of every project. We use data collected in the field to validate and verify our simulations, enabling us to reliably analyze scenarios too costly to verify through actual tests.

Mustang has innovated techniques for testing high-performance systems at a fraction of the cost incurred on typical test ranges.

Mechanical Design

The Mustang team is adept at designing and fabricating test equipment, prototype assemblies and production assemblies. We have developed airframes to house Mustang's radars for collecting data in free fall and assemblies for mounting the radars on various aircraft including F-16s. All of our assemblies undergo thermal, stress and shock analyses, including finite-element analysis and traditional methods.

Low-cost, ruggedized electronics

From high performance RF to high-speed digital, Mustang team members readily employ the latest tools and techniques in designing and testing efficient hardware for state-of-the-art weapons systems. The Mustang team is accustomed to working the full spectrum of the system - the antenna, the LNA, down conversion, local oscillators, IF strips, D/A conversion, FPGA, and processor functions.

Test Planning and Execution

Mustang team members have extensive experience testing complex systems for government customers. While this includes testing on government ranges, we find it cost-effective to thoroughly verify system performance in low-cost test environments before moving into these expensive environments. Mustang's techniques for exploiting skydiving equipment, facilities and personnel enable us to perform safe, highly-effective, ultra-low-cost captive flight and drop tests. We use these techniques to verify performance locally between testing in the laboratory and field testing at government sites.

Data Analysis

Mustang's multi-pronged data analysis approach saves time and money and ensures success. First, we prepare simple tools for initial analysis in the field as we perform tests and collect data. Then, with a good indication of the results in hand, we use Matlab® and other tools to thoroughly analyze collected data.

Mustang's radars are readily configured for high-performance, low-cost altimetry.

Radar Systems Engineering

Mustang's team includes nationally-recognized experts in designing and developing weapon systems, RF systems, antennas, phased-array antenna systems, advanced missile systems and seekers, radar and anti-radiation homing (ARH) modes of operation and imaging infrared (IIR) systems. While with Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group, team members were key contributors to Paveway, Shrike, HARM, HTS, JSOW, JAVELIN, ERGM and many other fielded weapon systems.

Algorithm Development

Mustang team members have developed algorithms for an extensive array of military and commercial applications, which are currently operating in millions of devices worldwide. When developing algorithms for space-time adaptive processing, fixed-body guidance, bullet and projectile detection, tracking and shooter localization, direction finding (DF), target detection, target classification, target recognition, terrain profiling, sensor fusion, foliage penetration, automatic waveform selection, pulse compression, Doppler processing, range sidelobe suppression, infrared image processing, feature extraction, terminal guidance, or other applications, Mustang engineers rely on solid physical modeling, simulation and analysis to develop efficient, high-performance algorithms.

Mustang continually rises to the challenge of providing the warfighter with better performing, more reliable fuzing methods.

Algorithm Development

Mustang team members have developed algorithms for an extensive array of military and commercial applications, which are currently operating in millions of devices worldwide. When developing algorithms for space-time adaptive processing, fixed-body guidance, bullet and projectile detection, tracking and shooter localization, direction finding (DF), target detection, target classification, target recognition, terrain profiling, sensor fusion, foliage penetration, automatic waveform selection, pulse compression, Doppler processing, range sidelobe suppression, infrared image processing, feature extraction, terminal guidance, or other applications, Mustang engineers rely on solid physical modeling, simulation and analysis to develop efficient, high-performance algorithms.

Simulation and Analysis

Mustang recognizes both the value of validated, high-fidelity simulations and the utility of fast-running, lower-fidelity simulations. Beginning with thorough, first-principles analysis and then gradually validating and increasing the fidelity of simulations during the product development cycle, we strive to find the right fidelity balance for each phase of every project. We use data collected in the field to validate and verify our simulations, enabling us to reliably analyze scenarios too costly to verify through actual tests.

While most of our business is in direct Government contracts, we are also available to team with or consult for other companies.

Radar Systems Engineering

Mustang's team includes nationally-recognized experts in designing and developing weapon systems, RF systems, antennas, phased-array antenna systems, advanced missile systems and seekers, radar and anti-radiation homing (ARH) modes of operation and imaging infrared (IIR) systems. While with Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group, team members were key contributors to Paveway, Shrike, HARM, HTS, JSOW, JAVELIN, ERGM and many other fielded weapon systems.

Guidance and Control

Mustang team members have extensive experience in body-fixed guidance, nonlinear guidance, autopilot design and error-tolerant radar guidance algorithms. A team member developed the first all-digital guidance and control implementation for a tactical missile (HARM 1974), and Mustang team members have been key contributors to the guidance systems for HARM, Paveway, JSOW, JAVELIN, ERGM, XM982, Seek-Spinner and Tacit Rainbow and to the GBU-15 All Weather Upgrade, which had its first successful flight less than 45 days after program launch.

RF System Analysis

From high performance RF to high-speed digital, Mustang team members readily employ the latest tools and techniques in designing and testing efficient hardware for state-of-the-art weapons systems. The Mustang team is accustomed to working the full spectrum of the system; the antenna, the LNA, down conversion, local oscillators, IF strips, D/A conversion, FPGA, and processor functions.

Digital Filtering

Digital, analog, FIR, IIR, Kalman, polyphase - Mustang engineers regularly employ the latest filtering techniques in our high-performance products. Millions of devices worldwide currently operate with filters and filter structures designed and developed by Mustang team members.

Algorithm Development

Mustang team members have developed algorithms for an extensive array of military and commercial applications, which are currently operating in millions of devices worldwide. When developing algorithms for space-time adaptive processing, fixed-body guidance, bullet and projectile detection, tracking and shooter localization, direction finding (DF), target detection, target classification, target recognition, terrain profiling, sensor fusion, foliage penetration, automatic waveform selection, pulse compression, Doppler processing, range sidelobe suppression, infrared image processing, feature extraction, terminal guidance, or other applications, Mustang engineers rely on solid physical modeling, simulation and analysis to develop efficient, high-performance algorithms.

Real-time software development

Mustang team members have implemented numerous real-time algorithms on a wide array of industry-standard digital signal processors, microprocessors, digital hardware, field programmable gate arrays and proprietary architectures. We use the development tools for Analog Devices and Texas Instruments DSPs and comfortably write code in assembly, C, C++, Fortran and ADA languages.

Simulation and Analysis

Mustang recognizes both the value of validated, high-fidelity simulations and the utility of fast-running, lower-fidelity simulations. Beginning with thorough, first-principles analysis and then gradually validating and increasing the fidelity of simulations during the product development cycle, we strive to find the right fidelity balance for each phase of every project. We use data collected in the field to validate and verify our simulations, enabling us to reliably analyze scenarios too costly to verify through actual tests.

Counter projectile sensors
Mustang is at the forefront of innovating solutions for today's military needs.

Infrared Image Processing and Data
To augment our RF sensors, Mustang is currently developing novel infrared imaging solutions.