Computer Systems facilities

Advanced Computational Concepts Laboratory (ACCL)

Cleveland, OH

Most activities are collaborations between teams in the Computer Services Division and various research groups throughout the center. Current research examines parallel and distributed processing, interprocessor communication via advanced networks and switches, and the development of workstation clusters as low-cost alternatives to conventional supercomputing. The ACCL also supports the NASA Glenn testbeds for the National Research an Education Network and the Computing, Information, Communications Technologies/the Numerical Propulsion System Simulator, and the CICT Space Communications Program.

Army Test Incident Reporting System (ATIRS)

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Balance & Modal Testing Support Facility

Philadelphia, PA

Maintaining of two complete microbalance data acquisition systems for submarine/carrier Ship Service Turbine Generator (SSTG) sets. All microbalance data acquisition equipment located and developed in the facility, including new state of the art technology.

CASS Product Verification/Evaluation Facility

Lakehurst, NJ

The Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) Product Verification/Evaluation Facility provides the means to perform single site testing on the CASS hardware and associated Test Program Sets (TPS). It contains the resources to perform RDT&E, TECHEVAL and OPEVAL testing on all aspects of the CASS development, including lifecycle and P3 testing. The facility combines the Class Desk, Test Engineer, Development Contractor and Military User into a cohesive team focused on the development of the various assets of CASS. The CASS Software Support Activity (SSA) has achieved a Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) rating.

Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Rapid Prototyping

Natick, MA

The Natick Soldier Center has the capability to create three-dimensional (3D) solid Computer Aided Design (CAD) models, conduct engineering studies utilizing Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and produce 3D prototypes directly from Computer Aided Design (CAD) data. This is a useful tool for evaluating component/system design issues prior to actual fabrication. In some cases, the prototype can be used directly for manufacturing actual parts. The system allows for the fast, efficient, and cost effective development of systems and their components while conducting “what if” studies for optimization.

Computer Based Image and Signal Processing Analysis Facility

Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

This facility is dedicated to image processing and signal processing as related to the design and implementation of measurement systems that support research and development. At its core is a supercomputer capable of 200 million 64-bit floating-point operations per second. This facility has unique peripherals. They include a one gigabyte per second Local Area Network which links the computer to high performance graphics workstations for visualization; a 14.4 million byte per second, digital, video tape recorder for the importing and digitization of images; and a million byte per second analog-to-digital converter for the digitization of analog data.

Data Collection and Calibration Facility

West Bethesda, MD

The Data Collection and Calibration Facility consists of the Test Operations Analysis and Control Center (TOACC) and the Calibration Laboratory. The TOACC supports the acquisition and reduction for all testing at this site. This facility consists of independent, computer-controlled data acquisition and analysis systems, which are responsible for the monitoring and interpretation of data from tests located throughout the Philadelphia location. The Calibration Laboratory provides the Fleet with efficient, affordable machinery health monitoring, cost effective predictive maintenance and maximum system readiness and operation and qualified enlisted personnel through on-site training.

Deep Submergence Computer Aided Engineering Support

Panama City, FL

Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) support is provided for analytical and soft prototyping support, flow analysis, structural analysis, - kinematic analysis, and other appliccltions. Although this work has been generally tailored to support deep submergence applications, it has been used for a myriad of other uses. CAE applications can support almost any commercial or industrial design activity. CAE methods allow cost savings and product quality improvement through the use of software that allows objects to be designed and tested as computer models, rather than expensive physical prototypes. SDRC Ideas solid modeling and analysis software, ALGOR structural and heat transfer analysis software, FIDAP computation fluid dynamic software for flow and heat transfer analysis, and other PC-based software for drafting, heat exchanger modeling, pipe flow modeling, and kinematic analysis are available. This software can also be used for forensic analysis of failures or examinations of existing problems. Personnel are trained in the use of these software packages, including the softwares' abilities and limitations.

Digital Anthropometric Video-Imaging Device

Pensacola, FL

Background: In the past, naval aviation candidates were screened anthropometrically by manual measurements. One problem with the manual method was it did not use standard landmarks for measurements. Without standard landmarks, incorrect measurements resulted in some aviators being assigned to the wrong aircraft. Other problems arose because the data could not be directly compared to anthropometric surveys in the literature, and quality control was very difficult. We computerized the process and developed the digital anthropometric video-imaging device (DAVID). The DAVID consists of a personal computer, camera, video-capture software and hardware, digitizing software, and an output device (printer).

Distributed Center for High Performance Computing

Washington, DC

Distributed Collaborative Engineering Environment

Washington, DC

EA-6B Electronic Attack Lab (EAL)

Point Mugu, CA

Electric Modeling Laboratory

Lakehurst, NJ

Microprocessor boards are tested through the use of ROM emulation software. A fault dictionary is generated for each type of board tested and is maintained as new faults are encountered. Fault analysis allows designers to track faults and components that may need repair or replacement during the unit’s life cycle

ELINT Development Facility

Rome, NY

Eight work areas are located within the controlled, SECRET EDF facility for research and development efforts. Software, hardware, and engineering resources are available to develop, test, and evaluate emitter identification and processing technologies, advanced signal processing techniques, and artifical intelligence. Custom software development and integration of new techniques with existing applications is also possible. The EDF can support the collection, digitization, and storage of radar signals as well as associated post processing. Electronic support measures collection, analysis of airborne emitters, and passive tracking and ranging are near-term additions.

Embedded Systems Facility

Rome, NY

In addition, fully equipped hardware development environments support the design and test of complex digital systems. The facility supports research and development in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, collaborative engineering, and hardware/software design automation.

Experimental Explosive Pressing Facility

Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

This facility supports R&D; press loading for various warhead configurations including conventional warheads and those in early concept phase incorporating new explosive formulations. The facility houses a computer controlled 190 ton press and a 420 ton press, an explosion proof electrical oven, and pressing support equipment such as hydraulic and vacuum systems. The 190-ton press supports double-acting press loading of conventional and other novel explosives up to 105 mm in diameter for warheads. The 420-ton press can press warheads up to 155 mm in diameter. The computer control capability provides accurate control, reading and recording of all pressing parameters, such as pressure, pressing cycles, vacuum, ram speed, and temperature to provide optimal procedures for maximum performances of explosive formulations. This facility is operated remotely thus providing safe, cost effective, and environmentally friendly pressing operations.

Fleet Information Systems Security Technology Lab

Washington, DC

GRUVE Laboratory

Cleveland, OH

The GRUVE (Glenn Reconfigurable User-interface and Virtual reality Exploration) Lab is a reconfigurable, large screen display facility at Nasa Glenn Research Center. It has been designed to allow researchers and engineers to explore their data and interact with one another in a computer generated environment. The display screens can be moved into different configurations from a single 8ftx24ft display wall to an 8ftx8ft, fully immersive virtual reality room, similar to a virtual reality 'CAVE', with images almost totally surrounding the users. Screens can be reconfigured for different display modes from a large, flat wall to a wrap-around stereoscopic theater, to a fully-immersive, virtual reality 'CAVE' . A CAVE(tm) (which stands for CAVE Automated Virtual Environment) typically refers to fully-immersive environment consisting of projections on at least three walls and floor with appropriate stereoscopic and position-tracking capability. The RAVE can also emulate an InfinityWall or other display systems.

High Performance Computing

Rome, NY

Its mission is to support the unclassified RDT&E; efforts of all components of the Department of Defense (DoD) by providing interactive remote and local access to hardware, software, and user services with special attention to applications and missions supporting C4ISR.

Hydrodynamic Design and Analysis

Panama City, FL

Hydrodynamic Design and Analysis Tool (HYDAT) is a unique set of computer programs developed at CSS and used for design and performance predictions of manned, autonomous, tethered, free swimming, and towed vehicles. Aspects addressed include weight and buoyancy calculations, nonlinear hydrodynamic coefficient prediction, nonlinear time-domain simulation, linearized and frequency-domain analysis, including transfer function calculations, and stability analysis. The nonlinear dynamic's of cable systems and even multibody vehicle systems may also be addressed. The design of a vehicle is a series of tradeoffs among the mission requirements, design constraints, and technology. The most recognizable design constraints are length, diameter, and weight, but one needs to consider the mission, environment, sensors, and a host or towing platform. Vehicle synthesis may then be performed to optimally size the subsystems to support the payload and mission requirements. HYDAT can then be used to optimize the vehicle shape to not only minimize drag, but to also minimize the vehicle's response to currents, waves, and even to host platform motions. Propulsion system sizing and optimization may also be performed to meet mission requirements. HYDAT can also be applied to vehicles that do not operate underwater.

IBAR—Integrated Battlespace Arena

China Lake, CA

IBAR is interconnected by multiple-fiber-optic cabling. Using the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) transmission and switching technique, these cables carry 155 megabytes per second per fiber—which will eventually increase to 644 megabytes per second. The flexibility of ATM allows simultaneous high-bandwidth transmission of different information types, such as voice, video and data. Because the network is reconfigurable through software, virtual networks can be built and unbuilt online to suit any desired purpose of consolidation or isolation of capabilities. The system is reliable and is security cleared to the Secret level (and that level can be raised with additional encryption).

Icing/Refueling Complex

Edwards AFB, CA

Imagery Data Base Facility

Rome, NY

The Imagery Data Base Facility supports AFRL and other government organizations by providing imagery interpretation and analysis to users for data selection, imagery duplication, and scenario development. All assets are analyzed, cataloged, and compiled and multimedia data packages are prepared.

Imagery Exploitation (IE) 2000

Rome, NY

The facility allows digital image interpretation to be performed on multisensor/multispectral digital imagery using low cost soft copy workstations. The system uses geographic information, cartographic data, and intelligence database as aids to the analyst. The hardware and software provide a full range of digital image processing tools such as image enhancements, warping, image registration, mensuration, etc.

Impact Acceleration Injury Database

Pensacola, FL

Numerous studies reported on in the aviation and automotive literature have established relationships between the type, magnitude, and direction of impact acceleration and resultant injuries. These results are spread throughout a wide array of journals, textbooks, technical reports, etc., which make it difficult and time-consuming for medical personnel to use this information effectively in diagnosis and treatment.

Information Assurance (IA) Test Facility

Fort Huachuca, AZ

The Information Assurance (IA) Test Facility mission is to ensure that our Integrated system and System of System (SoS) test process provides an effective and efficient IA test & evaluation (T&E) methodology for military weapon systems that include information technology (IT) items. SoS refers to a total network composed of all the interconnected computer systems, communications systems, and network components within some logical boundary, such as a division's control or the boundaries of an exercise/experiment. The IA T&E methodology applies throughout the life cycle phases of any Department of Defense (DoD) system that collects, stores, transmits, or processes classified and/or sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information, as well as commercial systems. The IA T&E methodology provides much of the essential vulnerability information by fulfilling the IA requirements with the following regulations, pamphlets and instructions:

Inspection and Evaluation Facility (Nondestructive Testing)

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Installation Life Cycle Management (ILM) Systems Development and Engineering

Port Hueneme, CA

Instrumentation and Measurement System Facility

Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

This suite of collocated facilities supports armament research, development, evaluation and manufacturing by addressing the needs of instrumentation and measurement systems. These instrumentation and measurement systems can be used for research, design and development across a broad spectrum of disciplines including:

Integrated Test Bed Facility

Rome, NY

The ITB's avionics system is composed of multiple high performance processors, embedded software, and data communication systems. The avionics embedded software is a real-time implementation, in DoD standard Ada, operating across multiple processors and processor types. The ITB provides a real-time, crew-in-the-loop, full mission simulation/stimulation system. A high performance simulation host computer provides the mission environment along with several airframe models and drives out-the-window scene and sensor image generators. This provides the pilot (the avionics system evaluator) with a familiar operating environment. The system is designed to be modularly expandable and has been interfaced with an electronic warfare avionics laboratory and a communication/ navigation avionics laboratory, thus forming the foundation for a full avionics system hot-bench, Avionics Wind Tunnel.

Interoperability Test and Experimentation Complex (ITEC)

Point Mugu, CA

John B. Hovermale Modeling, Database, and Visualization Laboratory

Washington, DC

M1A2 Tank Software to M1A2 Training Device Software Conversion

Orlando, FL

The Abrams Common Software Library (ACSL) software conversion program is directed toward improving soldier training and overall readiness. Through the use of actual M1A2 Tank SMI software, this program ensures consistency among training devices and enables simultaneous fielding of the M1A2 Tank and training device updates.

Maui High-Performance Computing Center

Kirtland AFB, NM

The Maui High-Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) is a research and development center that provides a state-of-the-art computational capability. It is managed by the University of Hawaii under contract to Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The MHPCC operates as a distributed center for the Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program providing advanced hardware, tools, training, and network connectivity to DoD researchers across the country who support the warfighter. In addition, the MHPCC provides critical high-performance computing resources to other DoD and non-DoD government agencies and educational institutions in Hawaii and throughout the continental United States. The Center is under the command of Air Force Research Laboratory’s Detachment 15: the host unit for all Air Force resources on Maui. The MHPCC is located in the Maui Research and Technology Park in the town of Kihei on the island of Maui, Hawaii.

MIW Software Test Facility

Panama City, FL

As the Software Support Activity (SSA) for all PEO-MIW programs, NSWC Panama City established, and continues to manage, the MIW Software Test Facility. The Facility contains all of the major components of the MIW Combat System for the MCM Class ships. The facility also houses workspace for the manufacture and checkout of software products used by the Fleet’s MIW systems. The Facility provides NSWC Panama City with the unique capability to develop and test new versions of the MIW Combat System software in a ship realistic environment.

Motion Imagery Laboratory (MIL)

Washington, DC

Moving-Map Composer (MMC) Facility

Washington, DC

Multi-Warfare Systems Evaluator

Panama City, FL

The MWSE is a large, high fidelity facility designed for the research, development, test and evaluation of systems. The MWSE can conduct detailed, real-time simulation studies of any moving vehicle or platform, such as ships, helicopters, submarines, swimmer delivery vehicles, etc. It employs operationally realistic mixes of torpedoes, ships, mines, sonars, submarines, acoustic countermeasure devices, target decoys, and environment by either high fidelity digital modeling or actual hardware-in-the-loop. In the simulation, each object is modeled to react as it would in an actual encounter at sea. Actual weapon (tactical) hardware is used in the simulator, and is stimulated in real-time by a synthesizer controlled by parallel processing computers that provide the acoustic modeling and signal synthesis.

Multimedia Production

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Munitions Directorate Technical Library

Eglin AFB, FL

Fully functional technical library with an integrated library system used for circulation of library materials. Immediate access to unclassified and unclassified/limited technical reports, current and back issue periodicals, and scientific and technical books on the premises. Online database and internet search capabilities for references to technical materials.

NEWAVE Research Center

Washington, DC

Ocean Color Facility

Washington, DC

OZ: Human-Centered Computing

Pensacola, FL

Since aviation is so critically dependent upon sustained, high levels of human performance, it is a domain in which HCC may make important contributions. OZ is a HCC system designed to provide an aviator with all the information needed to control an aircraft during instrument flight. OZ software manipulates separate streams of cockpit information to combine them in a fashion that reveals aircraft performance capabilities in the context of the specific aircraft situation. OZ displays this information in a human centered fashion designed to be quickly, easily, and accurately understood by the human with a minimum of effort. Although the OZ system manipulates cockpit information, the manipulations are designed to reveal relationships among aircraft parameters; they make the values of important parameters readily available to the pilot to aid in decision making. None of OZ’s manipulations hide data behind hidden or covert decisions; the goal is to enable the pilot to make the decision by making the information apparent.

Parallel High Performance Computer Graphics Facility

Washington, DC

Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering Facility

Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

Equipment utilized in support of this expertise include a variety of high end CAD programs, High Speed CNC machining and programming, Laser and Probe scanning for Reverse Engineering and inspection, Stereolithography modeling and Quick Cast casting. The mixture of equipment and technical capabilities provides the foundation for delivering quality products on a repeated basis.

Remote Sensing & Geographic Information System (GIS)

Hanover, NH

Scientific Visualization Laboratory (Viz Lab)

Washington, DC

Ship Virtual Prototyping Laboratory

West Bethesda, MD

This facility provides the resources to merge the technologies and concepts of modeling and simulation, simulation based acquisition, integrated product and process development, and acquisition reform, in order to develop innovative ships with significantly reduced total ownership costs. Just as the Navy hosts leading edge PHYSICAL testing facilities, this Navy leading edge VIRTUAL testing/prototyping facility will allow Government and industry, designers and warfighters, to establish requirements, and conceive, build, test, fight, train, and cost multiple options before finalizing a design.

Shock Trials Instrumentation

West Bethesda, MD

Data recording systems specifically designed for installation on board ship for collecting data during a shock trial. Each unit is a 40-foot long by 10 foot wide by 10 foot high, shock isolated and EMI shielded container. Each unit can be transported to the recording site by dedicated trailer, installed on the ship under going test and provide data collection and analyses for the shock trial. This instrumentation capability is internationally known to be second to none. This capability is used extensively by NAVSEA under a special MOU between SEA 03 and NSWCCD.

Software Engineering Automation (SEA) Center

Monterey, CA

The SEA Center assembles world-renowned faculty with a strong blend of industry and academic expertise, experienced military officers and government civilian students. Together with top world academic institutions, industry and DoD organizations, they address DoD Software Engineering needs, primarily in the following activities:

Software Test Laboratory (STL)

Lakehurst, NJ

STL becomes involved in programs to ensure that Government software standards are adhered to, that the operational requirements of systems are being met by the software, and that the safety of personnel and equipment is not compromised.

Technical Information Analysis Center

Hanover, NH

Test Technology Design & Development (T2D2) Lab

Fort Huachuca, AZ

EPG's Test Technology Design & Development Lab provides an advanced technologies development capability. Our goal is to enhance the effectiveness of EPG's test capabilities by synthesizing technologies not commercially available to meet the demanding needs of the Test Officer who is required to test cutting edge C4I systems which are dispersed geographically and exposed to severe environmental conditions.

Ultra-High-Speed Imaging

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Versatile Information System - Integrated, ONline (VISION)

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Virtual Proving Ground (VPG)

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Virtual Reality (VR) Laboratory

Washington, DC

DESCRIPTION: The VR Laboratory includes an Immersive Room (the GROTTO), two VR Responsive Workbenches, head-mounted displays, a multipiped SGI Onyx Computer that drives the GROTTO display, two additional SGI Onyx computers, several lowerend SGI and PC workstations, wearable computers with see-through displays, magnetic and inertial trackers, and a variety of

Virtual Test Facility

Newport, RI

The computational capability of the Virtual Test Facility (VTF) allows for the simulation of an entire antenna system including the antenna design, antenna feed network, system performance analysis, and system layout. Several tools are available for simulation of antenna designs and microwave structures (Ansoft ™ HFSS and Designer, NEC, and CST Microwave Studio.) RF system and component design tools are also available (Ansoft™ Designer.) Using calculated antenna gains or measured antenna gains, expected link budget performance can be predicted using STK™. The VTF also offers printed circuit board design tools (Protel and OrCAD.)

Visualization Laboratory

Washington, DC