Located in Westbury, Long Island, New York, Servo
Corporation of America is a world leader in the
design, development and manufacture of
components for satellite attitude
determination, Earth resource monitoring,
infrared detectors, and radio navigation
systems for harbors and airports. Our Address
is: 123 Frost St., Westbury NY, 11590. Phone
Founded in 1946 Servo pioneered the use of
infrared in thermal sensing applications
ranging from military heat seeking missiles to
scanners to detect overheated bearings in
railroad train wheels.
Servo's corporate headquarters, engineering, marketing and manufacturing occupy a modern 25,000
square foot facility in Westbury, New York. It is an independent privately owned corporation, not
controlled by a parent company. Servo qualifies as a small business under the present criteria of the
United States Government.
A wide variety of sophisticated technical
disciplines are integrated within Servo to
provide a broad spectrum of capabilities;
including infrared, electro-optics,
electromagnetics, computer programming
and processing techniques, data displays, high
speed electronics, microwaves, meteorology
and materials science.
Servo's infrared detector shop has 9,500
square feet of space and fully dedicated
equipment necessary for all thin film, ceramic
thick film, and wet chemistry processing of
infrared detection cells, fabrication, testing,
and environmental screening of infrared
systems and special optics. Specialized
equipment includes six vacuum evaporator stations, two sputtering stations, electron beam equipment,
leak detectors, humidity chambers, three environmental chambers, spectrophotometers, a full range of
electro-optic test equipment, four multi-spindle polishing machines, optical grinder, sand blasters, lens
generators, glass cutting saws, milling machine, dicing saw, wire bonders (ball and wedge), can welder,
dozens of specialized microscopes and a JEOL Scanning Electron Microscope.
The Quality Program now in effect at Servo meets the basic requirements of ISO 9001. The quality
inspection system is in accordance with MIL-I-45208A and is documented in the Servo Quality Assurance
Policy Manual No. 1-3-00 and Quality Assurance Procedures Manual No. 2-3-00. An itinerant
DCMAO/QAR is the US Government representative monitoring the quality control requirements for all
our present major government contracts. The system has been surveyed to the requirements of MIL-I-
45208A by DCMAO, Garden City, New York and several major US Government prime contractors,
including Hughes Space and Communications, Lockheed Martin, Northrop, and Loral Defense Systems
Division.