Pole/Zero designs and manufactures a comprehensive suite of RF interference mitigation products including tunable filters, Integrated Cosite Equipment (ICE), Low Noise Amplifiers, cosite power amplifiers and other products that are ideal for solving communication problems caused by various types of RF interference. These interfering sources can include self-interference due to collocation of transmitters and receivers (known as cosite interference), intentional jammers, broadband noise, spectral splatter and spurious transmit signals, rusty bolt effects or any number of other sources. 

The company was founded in 1989 with the belief that the military and commercial RF markets were changing. Although military budgets were shrinking, the role and the requirements of the military were not. In fact, one might argue that the role of the conventional military would be expanding with the global police force and peacekeeping pressures that were being applied. At the same time, real battlefield situations demonstrated that commercial equipment could provide the sophistication and reliability required in a military environment.

Using state-of-the-art technology, they focused on the technological advances of the last couple of decades and applied them to solid-state tunable filters. The result was a leap forward in miniaturization and standardization, permitting a totally self-contained single structure with improved production capability and reduced cost. In addition to these filters, they have developed other building blocks such as low noise amplifiers, cosite power amplifiers, solid state switches, mixers and synthesizers that now make up a catalog of "Off-The-Shelf" building blocks. These building block modules are available to the industry as stand alone modules, and they also form the basis of the systems they supply. These products share a common attribute in the support of very high dynamic range communications.

In 1994 Pole/Zero branched into the Integrated Cosite Equipment (ICE) business with the development of both an airborne and shipboard filter/amplifier cascade product. ICE integrates elements of their tunable filters to achieve enhanced performance beyond that achievable with their basic products. Both of these ICE units are still in production. Additionally, Pole/Zero has significantly expanded the breadth of ICE products, providing their customers the ability to select optimal cost-effective solutions for their interference mitigation needs. Many of their products are purchased as Commercial Item solutions, while other customers require modification to the existing products to meet their needs. In both cases, Pole/Zero provides low risk, cost-effective solutions. Their products can be found in the harshest RF environments on C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) platforms and in less demanding applications in tactical radios.

Today, Pole/Zero is delivering hardware to customers around the world for a variety of applications. Their equipment is flying on airborne command posts and jet fighters for the military, and is fielded in both ground fixed and ground mobile systems. The same hardware is being used in commercial applications from radio telescopes to wireless office communications, and from industrial inspection equipment to MRI machines. Applications for their filters range from