As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 10, 1999.

                           Registration No. 333-                    

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                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                         Washington, D.C.  20549

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                                   FORM S-8
                            REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                    UNDER
                          THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                            SMTEK INTERNATIONAL, INC.          
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               (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                  DELAWARE                                33-0213512
      (State or other jurisdiction of                 (I.R.S. Employer
       incorporation or organization)                 Identification No.)

             2151 Anchor Court, Thousand Oaks, California     91320
             (Address of principal executive offices)       (Zip Code)

                  SMTEK INTERNATIONAL, INC. 1998 NON-EMPLOYEE
                             DIRECTORS STOCK PLAN
                           (Full title of the plans)

                               Gregory L. Horton
                     President and Chief Executive Officer
                           SMTEK International, Inc.
                               2151 Anchor Court
                       Thousand Oaks, California 91320
                    (Name and address of agent for service)

                                (805) 376-2595
            (Telephone number, including area code of agent for service) 
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                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                Proposed        Proposed
 Title of                        maximum         maximum
securities        Amount        offering       aggregate         Amount of
  to be            to be          price         offering        registration
registered      registered      per share        price               fee     
- ----------      ----------      ----------      ----------      ------------  
     
Common Stock    1,000,000(1)    $0.45315(2)     $453,150(2)      $ 137.32(2)
 ($0.01 par       shares
   value)

     (1)  Number of shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share (the 
"Common Stock"), of SMTEK International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the 
"Company"), reserved for issuance under the SMTEK International, Inc. 1998 
Non-Employee Directors Stock Plan (the "Plan").

     (2)  Based upon the average of the high and low prices for the Common 
Stock on February 8, 1999, as reported in the consolidated reporting system, 
in accordance with Rule 457(c).



                                   PART II

                          INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                            REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.     INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     The following documents have been filed with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (the "SEC") by the Company and are hereby incorporated by reference 
into this Registration Statement: 

     (i)   the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended 
June 30, 1998 (the "Form 10-K"); 

     (ii)  the Company's amendments to Form 10-K on Form 10-K/A filed on 
September 14, 1998 and on October 28, 1998; 

     (iii) the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarter 
ended September 30, 1998; 

     (iv)  the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, dated June 30, 1998;  and

     (v)   the description of the Common Stock contained in the Company's 
Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 12 
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").  


     All other documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this 
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment 
which indicates that all securities offered hereunder have been sold or which 
deregisters all such securities remaining unsold shall be deemed to be 
incorporated by reference herein and shall be deemed to be a part hereof from 
the date of filing of such documents.

     Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated 
by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes 
of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein 
or in any subsequently filed document that is also deemed to be incorporated 
by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any such statement 
so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or 
superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.  

      The Company hereby undertakes to provide without charge to each person 
to whom a Registration Statement is delivered, upon written or oral request of 
such person, a copy of any document incorporated herein by reference (not 
including exhibits to documents that have been incorporated herein by 
reference unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference in 
the document which this Registration Statement incorporates).  Requests should 
be directed to SMTEK International, Inc., 2151 Anchor Court, Thousand Oaks, 
California 91320, Attention: Corporate Secretary, telephone (805) 376-2595.

ITEM 4.     DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

      Not applicable.

ITEM 5.     INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

     Not applicable.

ITEM 6.     INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a 
corporation may eliminate or limit the personal liability of a director to the 
corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary 
duty as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit 
the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director's duty of 
loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not 
in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation 
of law, (iii) for willful or negligent conduct in paying dividends or 
repurchasing stock out of other than lawfully available funds or (iv) for any 
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.  No 
such charter or by-law provision shall eliminate or limit the liability of a 
director for any act or omission occurring prior to the date when such 
provision becomes effective.

     The Company's Certificate of Incorporation includes a provision 
eliminating, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, director 
liability for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty.

     The Company's Bylaws require that directors and officers be indemnified 
to the maximum extent permitted by Delaware law.

      The Company has a policy of directors and officers liability insurance 
which insures directors and officers against the cost of defense, settlement 
or payment of a judgment under certain circumstances.


ITEM 7.     EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

     Not applicable.


ITEM 8.     EXHIBITS

      Exhibit
       Number          Description
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        4.1            SMTEK International, Inc. 1998 Non-Employee Directors
                         Stock Plan

        5.1            Opinion of Berry Moorman P.C. regarding the legality of
                         the securities registered

       23.1            Consent of Berry Moorman P.C. (contained in Exhibit 5.1)

       23.2            Consent of KPMG LLP

       24.1            Power of Attorney (contained on signature page hereto)

            
ITEM 9.     UNDERTAKINGS

     (a)     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

            (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
                 made, a post-effective amendment to the Registration
                 Statement to include any material information with respect to
                 the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                 Registration Statement or any material change to such
                 information in the Registration Statement;

            (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
                 Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be
                 deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
                 securities offered therein, and the offering of such 
                 securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial 
                 bona fide offering thereof; and

            (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
                 amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
                 unsold at the termination of the offering.

      (b)     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes 
of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the 
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's 
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is 
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be 
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and 
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial 
bona fide offering thereof.

     (c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons 
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions above, or otherwise, 
the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed 
in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a 
claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by 
the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or 
controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, 
suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling 
person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant 
will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by 
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the 
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as 
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication 
of such issue.








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                                 SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant 
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the 
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration 
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly 
authorized, in the City of Thousand Oaks, California, on February 10, 1999.

                                          SMTEK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

                                          By: /s/Gregory L. Horton
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                                             Gregory L. Horton
                                               President and Chief Executive
                                               Officer

                              POWER OF ATTORNEY

     We, the undersigned directors and officer of SMTEK International, Inc., 
do hereby constitute and appoint each of Messrs. Gregory L. Horton and Richard 
K. Vitelle, each with full power of substitution, our true and lawful 
attorney-in-fact and agent to do any and all acts and things in our names and 
in our behalf in our capacities stated below, which acts and things either of 
them may deem necessary or advisable to enable SMTEK International, Inc. to 
comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules, regulations 
and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with 
this Registration Statement, including specifically, but not limited to, power 
and authority to sign for any or all of us in our names, in the capacities 
stated below, any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) 
hereto; and we do hereby ratify and confirm all that they shall do or cause to 
be done by virtue hereof. 

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this 
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the 
capacities and on the date indicated.

      Signature                Title                              Date
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/s/ Gregory L. Horton         Chief Executive Officer,      February 10, 1999
- -----------------------         President and Director
    Gregory L. Horton

/s/ James P. Burgess          Director                      February 10, 1999
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    James P. Burgess

                              Director                      February 10, 1999
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    Charlene A. Gondek

/s/ Bruce E. Kanter           Director                      February 10, 1999
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    Bruce E. Kanter

                              Director                      February 10, 1999
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    Oscar B. Marx, III