MANAGEMENT SCIENCES INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: Tyco Electronics Connectivity Defense and Aerospace (TE) is a leading supplier of mil-spec
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $79,991
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2013.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NM
- Period
- 2013-11-25 → 2014-05-25
Description
Tyco Electronics Connectivity Defense and Aerospace (TE) is a leading supplier of mil-spec fiber optic (FO) connectors used in ship"s wiring plants, In a Navy SBIR, our company, Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) worked with TE and developed a portable automated test equipment (ATE) for fast and efficient troubleshooting of harnesses. The portable ATE operates at the rate of about 4 seconds per conduit compared to several minutes for single conduit testers. We propose research leading to production of an automated inspection system that automatically inspects, tests, and documents fiber optic (FO) conduits of a ship"s cable plant. The technology will interface to FO cable connectors and automatically inspect for factory and installation defects. This new technology shall include all necessary instrumentation for operating as an automated system that inspects and documents the location and nature of the fiber optic wiring plant problems or defects. (A separate proposal is presented for inspecting electrical wiring plants which have an entirely different problem space.)