COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AdaptiveComputing--BLT, an embedded engineering design services company, is honored to announce it has been recognized by AMD with its two highest partner honors: AMD Premier Embedded Partner of the Year and AMD Outstanding Authorized Training Provider (Large) of the Year. This marks a historic first within the AMD partner ecosystem, as BLT is the only Partner to have earned both awards in the same year.
These honors underscore BLT’s notable achievements and diverse capabilities across embedded engineering. For more than 35 years, BLT has delivered custom electronic and embedded system solutions for space, aerospace and defense, government, and commercial applications. Some of BLT’s most notable achievements include work on several Mars missions and development of the initial prototypes for HDTV and consumer satellite radio. Today, BLT’s current efforts include software-defined radio (SDR), orbital synthetic aperture RADAR (SAR), electronic warfare at the tactical edge, high-speed sensor processing for hypersonic applications, advanced communications for contested environments, security applications including post quantum and secure boot systems.
“BLT has been an outstanding partner and their recognition as Partner of the Year and ATP of the Year is a true reflection of the exceptional work they do for customers. We're proud to have them in our partner ecosystem and look forward to advancing customer success together.”
— Rhett Whatcott, Director: Partners, Training, & Enablement; AMD
AMD is a global semiconductor leader whose high-performance processors, adaptive SoCs, FPGAs, and software tools power some of the world's most advanced systems. BLT appreciates AMD recognizing our continuing commitment to our deep and long-standing partnership with them. Founded by an original Xilinx (now AMD) FAE, BLT has collaborated with AMD since the very beginning.
The AMD Embedded partner ecosystem includes over 450 global partners. BLT’s recognition across both categories reflects its dual impact. BLT delivers embedded engineering solutions built on AMD technologies, while also enabling engineering teams to effectively design and deploy those same technologies.
- The AMD 2025 Premier Partner of the Year (Americas) award recognizes outstanding contributions to customer success, technical innovation, and business growth and impact in the Americas among dozens of Premier Partners
- The AMD 2025 Authorized Training Provider of the Year (Large Category) award recognizes excellence in enabling engineers through high-quality technical education for ATPs that train more than 4,000 student-days per year. In 2025 BLT trained 11,000 students.
“BLT’s Clients engage our engineers to address the industry's most demanding challenges across space, aerospace and defense, and intelligence applications,” said Ed McCauley, BLT President and Founder. “We're honored to receive this recognition from AMD, and proud that our team's technical expertise continues to make an impact both in the systems we help develop and the knowledge we share with the engineering community.”
BLT engineers continue to advance AMD technologies across space, aerospace and defense, intelligence, communications, electronic warfare, embedded computing, industrial automation, and commercial systems. In addition, BLT contributes to AMD reference designs and helps train AMD field personnel. BLT supports organizations ranging from leading aerospace and defense companies to emerging technology companies, helping accelerate development and solve complex engineering challenges using AMD FPGAs, adaptive SoCs, embedded software, and embedded x86 platforms.
Experiencing steady growth, BLT recently opened its Innovation Center on Florida's Space Coast to complement its Columbia, Maryland headquarters, expanding the company's capacity to support more than 90 engineers and technical professionals across both locations. Through major defense contract vehicles, BLT delivers mission-critical systems for customers facing demanding schedules, resource constraints, and complex technical requirements.
About BLT:
BLT is a premier embedded electronics Design Services company trusted by Fortune 100, tech innovators, and U.S. government clients to deliver complex custom electronics and embedded systems. Since 1989, BLT has been known for solving some of the toughest design challenges for space, aerospace and defense, intelligence, and commercial Clients. BLT designs custom chips, embedded software, custom electronics, and complete systems. Our designs are in space, undersea, and everywhere in between. Done right. On time. On budget. Every time. Since 1989.
Learn more at https://bltinc.com
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