X-33 Launch Facility

Professional Engineering Services (PES)
through GSA

Test and Evaluation

Test and Evaluation Support

We have provided test and evaluation support to DoD, NASA, and industry for more than 40 years. It remains a major part of our business base. Our support services have included all aspects of T&E: test planning (Test and Evaluation Master Plan [TEMP]); test concept and methodology development; test execution; data reduction and analysis; and test reporting. The systems supported have included aircraft, propulsion systems, ordnance and missile systems, commercial and military ground vehicles, space systems, and test and training range systems. In addition, we have also supported T&E of associated subsystems such as fuzes, guidance and control systems, terminal seekers, etc. The types of testing have included a wide variety to include flight-testing, wind tunnel, hardware-in-the-loop, and other ground testing. For example, we support the Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (AFSEO) in the execution of the USAF store certification programs. This requires extensive support of a variety of testing and is supplemented with modeling and simulation. Test support includes wind tunnel and flight testing to determine store separation trajectories and characteristics, instrumented flight flutter testing, static load testing, in-flight structural testing, mass properties testing, vibration testing, physical fit tests, EMI/EMC testing, stability and control flight and wind tunnel testing, and aircraft performance testing. For example, our engineers developed EMI/EMC modeling and simulation capability to predict electromagnetic field strengths resulting from internal and external sources of electromagnetic energy. We also provided verification and validation (V&V) during subsequent testing. Recent tests have involved F-15, F-16, F-22, F-117, B-52, and B-1 aircraft and JASSM, JDAM, JSOW, AIM-9, and AMRAAM weapon systems. T&E support will continue to be a major part of our engineering services at all of our organizational segments. It includes requirements analysis, systems engineering, acquisition support, independent analysis, and various forms of modeling and simulation.