TRUE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: N091-032

Description

The Naval Air Command performs a wide variety of sophisticated and time-consuming calculations in the service of repairing fighter jets and other high-end equipment. These calculations are developed by specialists at some expense and time. This SBIR concerns an effort to extract more value from the intellectual capital contained in these calculations, deploy them to a broader spectrum of users, and speed the solution of repair problems requiring modeling. A system is desired that will capture the engineering parameters and results, and make them searchable and reusable to a broader body of Navy personnel. In Phase I of this project, True Engineering analyzed the interfaces and inputs to common Navy modeling tools and the work orders that prompted the models. We then proposed a system involving True Engineerings truenumber format for capturing the critical values in the models, exposing the conditions and restrictions on their use in these models, and making it possible to reuse the models in situations that are deemed to be equivalent. We now propose in Phase II to prototype such a system with a variety of modeling tools, and to institute a study of that system in use at NavAir. We will investigate architectures for deployment that will integrate with a variety of systems and scenarios in place across Navy IT, and perform deployment to a broader audience as an option to the Phase II work.