Engineering

Systems Engineering Capabilities

Design integration and execution of complex systems requires the formal discipline and process offered by our systems engineering competency.  This competency ensures completion of a careful requirements capture process and build-up of verification elements.  Our methods have streamlined the design process, while formal Risk Management implementation properly focuses discretionary resources on mission critical elements.

Configuration Management (“CM”) is a necessary element of systems engineering for more complex system integration and transition to production.  Recently, a configuration management software tool, EDS Team Center (IMAN), was implemented.  IMAN is a Configuration Management Software system that delivers the required design revision tracking and control.

Current Software Capabilities:  Twelve Windows 2003 servers (File, Fax, Remote Access and Web Servers), Windows Exchange 2003 email server (both direct and web accessible), approximately 190 desktop workstations/PCs with Windows XP, Office XP used in Engineering, Program Control, Accounting, and Administration, five seats of Pro-E CAD/CAM software, forty-two seats Unigraphics CAD/CAM software, and UG Solutions TeamCenter Engineering (IMAN) configuration-control software integrated with Unigraphics to support large programs.  We also have two seats CATIA CAD/CAM software, six seats ANSYS analysis software, two seats NASTRAN analysis software, SUN workstations with two seats CADDS-5, SUN workstations with two seats SC03 analysis software, Project 2003 software for Program management, PGP encryption software for data exchange, Visual Manufacturing shop floor control for production scheduling and time charging, AT&T MPLS network between Virginia, California, and Florida offices, AT&T Global Access dial-in service, Full T1 network access into Internet, Corporate Intranet for sharing information across facilities, Lessons-Learned database, and Deltek time tracking database.

System Requirements Management

• Requirements documentation

• Functional Decomposition

• Requirements verification

• Verification test

Risk Management

• Probability and criticality analysis

• Risk waterfalls

• Fault three analysis

Configuration Management

• EDS team center

• Data revision control and tracking

• Workflow process organization

Technology Development Capabilities

The Technology Development Group is the center for product idea generation and conceptual design and advances technologies that enable new product development

Vehicle Aerodynamic Engineering

• Hypersonic Aerodynamics

• Supersonic Aerodynamics

• Ducted-Fan Aerodynamics

• Propulsion-Airframe Integration

• Stability and Control

Air-Breathing Propulsion Engineering

• Ramjets/Scramjets

• Rocket-Based Combined Cycle

• Turbine-Based Combined Cycle

• Detonation Wave Engines

Combustion Engineering

• Supersonic combustion

• Combustion Heaters

• Dry Low NOx Combustion

• Lean Pre-mixed, Pre-vaporized combustion

• Deflagration Transition and Detonation

Rocket Propulsion

• Innovative phase-change fluid fueled rockets

• Arc-jets

Specialized Capabilities

• Systems Engineering

• Instrumentation Engineering

• Guidance, Navigation and Control Design

• Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis

• Computational Structural Analysis

• Fuel Systems Design and Analysis

• Heat Transfer and Thermal Stress

• MEMs and Fuel Cells

• Actively and Passively Cooled Flight Structures

• Chemical Kinetics and Reactive Flow Analysis

• Stress Wave Analysis and Unsteady Gas Dynamics

• Detonation and Blast Wave Design and Analysis