Applied Engineering Technology Center
Electromagnetic and Nuclear Effects
Mechanical Engineering
Reliability and Maintainability
Purpose
The Applied Engineering Technology Center provides the necessary
skills to acquire reliable, sustainable, and cost effective command and
control systems by applying our specialties in an integrated fashion that
emphasizes early design impact and considers the entire product life cycle.
In addition, the Center's personnel maintain a state-of-the-art knowledge
of vital new technologies, such as physics of failure, fault tolerance,
design for testability, accelerated life testing, reliability modeling,
and software reliability. We administer support to our clients from the
initial study phases to the production and fielding of systems.
Organization
The Applied Engineering Technology Center consists of three specialty
areas:
- The Electromagnetic and Nuclear Effects Team addresses
the growing problems associated with severe electromagnetic threats,
both man-made (for example, electromagnetic pulse) and natural (for
example, lightning). Capabilities include EMI, EMC, EMP, Lightning,
TEMPEST, nuclear effects, and associated installation/facility concerns. The Electromagnetic and Nuclear Effects Team has been actively involved
in efforts ranging from the design of a single LRU to the development
of an overall site integration/mitigation approach for multiple systems.
Significant analysis, test, and verification experience exists in all
aspects of the electromagnetic and nuclear effects technical areas.
- The Mechanical Engineering Team is comprised of mechanical,
aeronautical, and material science engineers plus hardware prototype
development and fabrication consisting of a machine shop facility, design,
drafting, and rapid model prototyping. The Mechanical Engineering Team's
comprehensive skill base integrates the critical areas of design, analysis
and test thereby ensuring project risks are properly managed throughout
their life cycle. The team provides a system-level assessment
of designs and their interrelationship with natural, induced, and hostile
environmental requirements and apply their design and analysis capabilities
to improve system effectiveness.
- The Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Team also includes
Theater C3 Engineering and Manufacturing Technology. The Reliability
and Maintainability Engineering Team is made up of engineers that are
heavily experienced in product assurance and reliability engineering.
The team's outlook involves conventional reliability and maintainability
program management techniques, models, and analyses, as well as a new
focus on concurrent engineering, network quality assurance, and production
concerns.
Projects
Although we support projects through the whole acquisition process, our
project contributions are especially vital at early development stages
and at production inception. The Center's staff assist in developing and
advancing specifications arising from detailed operational and logistic
requirements, efficient test programs, and technology risk assessments.
Facilities
The Applied Engineering Technology Center has three labs:
The EME/EMI Lab includes a shielded test chamber
and a mobile EME van outfitted to perform a wide range of EME field
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| The Product Assurance Computer Lab contains computing facilities for reliability prediction and
modeling, 3D solid modeling, finite element analysis (FEA), circuit
simulation, and electromagnetic coupling estimation. In addition,
the lab has the ability to print in 3D for rapid model prototyping. |
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The Product Evaluation Laboratory (PEL) consists
of environmental test chambers (temperature, humidity, altitude, and
vibration), high power microscopes, IR camera, and other equipment
for evaluating the physics of failure. The PEL is tailored to
the card, module, or small scale electronic equipment as is widely
used in command and control systems. |
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