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Naval Air Warfare
Center/Aircraft Division
Patuxent River, MD
The Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division
(NAWCAD) is the full spectrum research, development,
test and evaluation (RDT&E), engineering, and
fleet support center for air platforms. The
product test areas include aircraft systems
(manned and unmanned), airborne technology,
propulsion, flight test and engineering, avionics
design and production, crew systems and aircraft-platform
interface.
The most important assets are the more than
8,000 scientists and engineers (S&E's) and technicians
and 15,000 acres and 7,400 square miles of test
ranges housing RDT&E facilities. Our unique
capabilities and sate-of-the-art facilities
are unmatched in the world. NAWCAD is located
at Patuxent River, Maryland (65 miles south,
southeast of Washington, DC).
Expert technical cooperation is needed in various
technical areas such as Physics, Chemistry,
Mathematics, Electronics, Aerodynamics, Material
Science & Engineering (software, hardware, processing,
etc.) Main emphasis is on 1) Technologies to
enable, and to improve the efficiency of, network
centric systems for knowledge management and
decision-making; 2) Hypersonic systems; 3) Directed
Energy Weapons; and 4) UAV/UCAV related technologies
and technologies that enable autonomous operations
and decision-making . Various state-of-the-art
technologies of the NAWCAD are as follows:
Acoustic Science and Technology:
Ocean acoustics, physical oceanography, active
and passive sonar technology, sonar processing
technology, acoustic and non-acoustic sensors,
microwave radar, blue green laser radar, and
transduction material technology.
Advanced Aircraft Materials:
Materials science & engineering, hybrid materials,
light weight and high strength alloys, processing
science, fatigue and fracture, structure design
optimization, polymer, metal and ceramic matrix-composites,
intermetallics, refractory metal alloys and
coatings, corrosion inhibitors, environmental/surface
interactions in adhesives, sealants, elastomers,
electronic materials, lubricants, non-destructive
testing (for structural integrity and stealthiness),
polymer chemistry, composite repair technologies,
and development of smart skins and smart structures.
Advanced Processors/Computer Systems
Technology:
RISC and parallel computer architecture,
data fusion, information storage (optical
disks, semiconductor and ferroelectric memories,
magnetic media, advanced recorders) Artificial
Intelligence, Neural Network Systems, real-time
telemetry processing, symbolic computer algebra/mathematics,
tools for logistic planning, flight operations
aircraft servicing and reporting systems,
and object oriented systems.
Aircraft Controls and Displays:
Helmet mounted displays, flat panel displays,
including LED, LCD, electroluminescent, plasma,
field emission, and vacuum fluorescent, projection
displays, etc.
Aircraft Design and Performance:
Design, development and evaluation, V/STOL,
RPV's, computational fluid dynamics, flight
vehicle systems, digital fly-by-wire, flying
qualities criteria, etc.
Avionic Systems:
Systems engineering, technology management
and application in avionics, advanced concepts
for avionics (developing requirements, conducting
analyzes), define and evaluate avionics architecture
for new and upgraded aircraft (simulation
and hot bench capabilities), etc.
Environmental Sensing:
Development and/or application of environmental
sensors (wind velocity and direction) in support
of aircraft operations.
Fiber Optics Technology:
IR detection and imaging systems, signal
and image processing, automatic target recognition,
reconnaissance sensors, LIDAR systems, hydrographic
and atmospheric measurements, lasers and countermeasure
systems.
Flight Control Design and Aerospace
Test and Evaluation Engineering:
Fluidic flight control, air frame dynamics
and simulation, flight control system design
and instrumentation, flying qualities analysis
and simulation, fluidic control system design
and test, conceptual design and evaluation
of V/STOL, UAV, hypersonic, and tilt rotor,
flight vehicle systems, flight testing techniques
(instrumentation, simulation and support),
aerodynamic and structural analysis, etc.
High Speed Fiber Optics Networks:
High speed fiber optic components and networks,
high speed links, optical switching and modulation
techniques, and nonlinear optical materials
and devices.
Life Support and Human Factors:
Personnel in-flight and crash protection,
breathing and in-flight escape systems, survival
and rescue equipment, emergency locator/beacon
voice radios, advanced helmet mounted displays,
man-machine interface in flight environment,
stress physiology and acceleration loads,
biochemistry in stress, and Gprotective techniques
and devices, dynamic flight simulation, air
crew visual performance and human factor engineering.
Manufacturing Technology:
Leading edge in product design, manufacture,
quality assurance through combined computer
aided design (CAD), computer aided manufacturing
(CAM), computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
functions, reverse engineering, electronics
assembly, cable and harness fabrication, printed
circuit board fabrication, hybrid microelectronics,
and stereo lithography; and computer aided
acquisition and logistics support.
Microwave Technology:
Solid state conformal radar, sea clutter,
non-cooperative target recognition, MMIC,
CAD/CIM/CAM and adaptive antennas and processing.
Systems, Software, and Computer Technologies:
Neural networks, fuzzy logic, case based
reasoning, genetic algorithms, visual reality,
robotics, design error systems, intelligent
control, parallel processing, software technologies
for signal processing, operating system software
for real-time Mission Critical Computer Resources
(MCCR), AI and expert systems, high-level
specification languages for automatic code
generation, software engineering environments,
interface standards and software frameworks
for integrating Computer-Assisted Software
Engineering (CASE) tolls, avionics architecture
design and analysis, fault tolerant avionics
design, etc.
Weapons System Analysis, Design, Integration:
Operations analysis as applied to weapon
system modeling, effectiveness and survivability,
system design, optimization, filtering, design
studies to meet reliability and maintainability
and cost targets
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