Battelle brings scientific innovation to the challenge of modernizing legacy systems and aging platforms, using solutions based on proven technologies and modular open-systems design to improve performance and reliability at lower total costs.
OUR APPROACH
Battelle tackles the challenges of how to update aging systems and platforms with a multidisciplinary approach for the best integration of proven technologies based on open systems design and industry standards. The objective is to meet military and homeland defense requirements for lower life-cycle costs, while improving performance and reliability and ensuring future technology growth potential.
Core competencies in technology insertion include:
- Advanced display technology and integration
- Advanced sensor technology
- Communications, navigation and surveillance
- Corrosion monitoring and prevention
- COTS component integration
- Inherently clean materials/processes
- Open systems avionics architectures
- Passive countermeasures
- Service life assessment
- Specialty metal and composite patch design
- System modeling, analysis and simulation
Battelle operates a number of specialized facilities to assist in its technology insertion work, including:
- Precision fabrication and machine shop - for development, testing and evaluation of specialized equipment for rapid fielding.
- Communications laboratory - for development and testing of radio electronics and engineering projects such as a common interface avionics intercom platform to replace diverse, aging systems.
- Electronics systems development laboratories —for development, fabrication and testing, including radar imaging and electronics fabrication laboratories and an electromagnetic shield room.
- Modular electro-optics laboratories - for specialized work requiring multiple-wavelength lasers, holographic experimentation and testing instrumentation, optical calibration and measurement instrumentation, and optical tables.
- Clean room facilities - Class 100 facilities for microfabrication and micromachining, including computer-controlled 3-D lithography in thick photo-resists and an ion-assisted, electron-beam evaporation system for creating precision thin-film coatings.
- Structural evaluation facility - includes six electrohydraulic closed-loop test systems used to evaluate materials under strain and displacement loads.
- Non-destructive evaluation laboratory —for the measurement of properties of materials and to detect flaws at the molecular level using new techniques and equipment designed by Battelle scientists.
- Stress corrosion test laboratory - includes portable electrochemical experiment stations and facilities to measure and evaluate stress, corrosion and corrosion fatigue.