Welcome To ATEI
About Advanced Tech Engineering Incorporated (ATEI)
Advanced Tech Engineering Incorporated (ATEI) develops disruptive and transformative RF and airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Strike (ISR/Strike) solutions that result in advanced capabilities and enhanced performance, with reductions in cost, size, weight and power (CSwaP) over fielded technologies and systems. Our company has experience in a range of key areas of RF, airborne ISR/Strike systems and subsystems in requirements derivation, engineering concept to preliminary development, and prototype to production build, testing, training and deployment.
ATEI is a small, disadvantaged, minority-owned business established in 2008 - with headquarters in Minnesota. We are best known for rapid, innovative and agile support and technologies that provide cost-effective solutions to meet our customer's requirements. Our company is a cutting edge systems engineering corporation that continues to expand its portfolio of capabilities, technologies, programs, products and services. Since inception, we have laid the foundation for a strong tradition of developing and providing high integrity technical solutions for RF Sensors, Communication and airborne ISR/Strike systems. Investing heavily in people, processes and current tools and equipment, ATEI continues to expand its technical advantage to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions to our customer's requirements.
ATEI is a privately held company under the leadership of President and CTO, Frank Lucchesi. Mr. Lucchesi has over 30 years of combined RF systems engineering experience, including Radar, SSR, SIGINT, Information operations (IO), Information warfare (IW), LIDAR, RF communication, satellite communication, missile seeker, missile RF fuse and unmanned systems research and development industry experience. Mr. Lucchesi has held high-level technical positions with large U.S. DoD prime contractors and has served in lead technical roles on major development programs. Additionally, Mr. Lucchesi has been responsible for developing disruptive technologies while leading company R&D and CR&D projects.
ATEI employs a talented staff consisting of scientists, engineers, and technical personnel with college and advanced engineering degrees, and all of whom are dedicated to satisfying our customers' needs. Collectively, we have over 100 years of experience in developing RF and ISR/Strike solutions, either directly or indirectly for the following programs:
Systems Engineering, Science & Technology Projects:
DARPA Phase I and II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) "Highly Integrated Si Based RF Electronics" with MIMO Radar and Communication applications, ONR Integrated Topside (InTop) Electronic Attack (EA)/IO/ LOS Communication Active Phased Array programs; DARPA Optical RF Adjunct Sensor (ORCA), Advanced RF Missile Seekers, Magic Lantern LIDAR, April Showers LIDAR, F/A-18 Nite-Hawk FLIR Laser Spot Tracker (LST), Air Force Surveillance and Tactical Technology/ Airborne Radar Demonstration Program, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, RQ-21A STUAS Tier II R&D, and Desert Hawk III R&D.
Radar, Communication, Navigation, & Identification Projects:
F/A-35 JSF CNI, F/A-22 CNI, Radars for the Southern Region and Portugal (RSRP), RSRP Advanced Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR Modification Program, Republic of China (ROC) Radars, Sea Shadow, Guardrail SIGINT, AMRAAM, Standard Missile, MQ-9 Mariner Demonstrator, RQ-21A Small Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) Tier II R&D, UK Desert Hawk I+, Desert Hawk III UAS, Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS), and Advanced EHF Satellite, Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
ISR/Strike Projects:
- Manned Aircraft: F/A-35 JSF, F/A-22 ATF, F/A-16, F/A-18, F/A-111, B-MACK, and Supersonic Business Jet (SSBJ)
- Unmanned Aircraft: MQ-9 Mariner Demonstrator, RQ-21A STUAS Tier II, MQ-4C BAMS, UK Desert Hawk I+, and Desert Hawk III.
- Missiles & Munitions: ONR RATTLRS, DARPA FALCON HCV, M982 Excalibur Projectile, LRLAP, and XM1156 PGK.