Evertiq, the Swedish-based global media network covering electronics manufacturing, has published an interview with APR’s CEO Lars Almhem on our participation in NATO’s innovation accelerator DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic).
APR was selected for the DIANA programme in 2024, within the Energy & Power track. DIANA represents an opportunity to test and validate our solutions against concrete defence and security needs, together with potential end users within the NATO ecosystem.
The thermal challenges we work on in civilian markets are the same ones present in defence applications. As electronics systems become more powerful and compact, heat becomes an increasingly hard constraint, and in defence environments that is compounded by requirements for robustness, mobility, low signature, and operation across extreme temperatures.
In the interview, Lars explains how the Rheion™ architecture, designed to operate close to the heat source at the level of semiconductors, power electronics, and battery systems, is relevant across a range of defence applications such as battery systems, tactical electronics, communications equipment, sensors, unmanned systems, and mobile energy solutions. And the requirement goes both ways: equipment must not only be cooled efficiently, but sometimes also heated rapidly and evenly to function predictably in cold climates.