Electrotechnology facilities in NJ
10 facilities
Benet Labs Electro-Mechanics & Controls Laboratory
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The EM&C; Laboratory provides customer support through an environment enabling the Benet workforce to integrate electronic/electrical hardware with computer-based control systems. Hardware activities performed typically focus on armament test equipment & test support items, encompassing multi-axis actuation control, power management & sensor interfacing. Computer-based rapid prototyping of control systems thru use of The MathWorks control development tool suite. Modern electronic test equipment is applied consisting of digitizing oscilloscopes, waveform generators, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, current probes, and PC-based data acquisition.
Electro-Deposition Laboratory
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The electro-deposition laboratory can electro-deposit various coatings onto small test samples and bench level prototypes. This facility provides the foundation for advanced deposition technologies on the larger scale. Small-scale electro-deposition of numerous refractory metals is available.
Electromagnetic Environmental Effects Laboratory
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The Fuze Group's E3 team has the capability to expose systems to a wide range of severe electromagnetic environments utilizing laboratory facilities at Picatinny Arsenal and elsewhere. The systems' response to those environments is measured utilizing custom instrumentation designed and fabricated by E3 team personnel. E3 team engineers provide design guidance to ensure developmental systems will not be susceptible to electromagnetic environments to be encountered during their life cycle. Additionally, the E3 team serves as technical liaison between ARDEC elements and the Army Nuclear Survivability requirements community and test facilities. Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO) ensure the safety and reliability of electrically initiated explosives in high electromagnetic radiation environments. Electromagnetic Radiation, Operational (EMRO) evaluation ensures the safe, reliable operation of electronic systems in their anticipated electromagnetic radiation environment. This type of system evaluation is similar to the MIL-STD-461 radiated susceptibility test for subsystems.
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Laboratory
Lakehurst, NJ
In addition to EMI testing, NAVAIR provides such services as EMI consultation, document review, EMI requirement assessment, analysis, Fleet support, project management, site surveys, and MIL-STD-704 (electrical power quality) compatibility testing. We are also bridging the gap between the research and development and test and evaluation communities to answer measurement concerns and address test requirements and methodology relationships with the intended environment. We remain very active in the continual MIL-STD-461/462 revision process, and our personnel assist with Naval Laboratory Accreditation Program (NAVLAP) activities.
Fuze Development Center
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The Fuze Development Center is equipped with Industrial grade facilities so that the processes can be worked out prior to production hand off during development. There is a full SMT line, highly capable machine shop for fixturing and low quantity component runs, as well as explosives handling capability. There are also assembly benches to simulate assembly operations as one would see in a production facility. The set ups are flexible depending on the item being assembled. This facility will allow for documented processes that provide consistency, and “true to life” prototypes that give accurate and reproducible test results. “Do it right the first time”.
Nanotechnology Center
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The facilities includes a induction plasma system to produce nanopowders, a state-of-the-art x-ray diffraction & x-ray scattering equipment, and variety of other apparatus needed to characterize physical, thermal, chemical, and metallurgical properties of nanomaterials. Imaging equipment such as electron microscope shall be installed in the near future.
Pyrotechnic Laboratory
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
This facility, in conjunction with the Pyrotechnic Pilot Manufacturing Facility, encompasses the entire range of R&D; related to pyrotechnic formulations and items including both processing and testing capabilities. Processing is done at the small pilot plant level and includes mixing, granulation and drying of pyrotechnic composition and consolidation and loading of powder into items. Test capabilities access the thermodynamic, kinetic, physical and storage stability characteristics of pyrotechnic compositions using assorted equipment. In addition, a flare tunnel with the most current equipment and instrumentation is used to measure the burn time, radiometric, photometric and spectral characteristics of a wide range of pyrotechnic items. This facility can provide quick development of novel pyrotechnic items and transition to production.
Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis System
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
This facility provides the capability to examine surfaces microscopically with high resolution (5 nanometers), perform micro chemical analyses of these surfaces, and obtain quantitative image information digitally. The system has been used for identifying the material aspects of the design and failure of armament items and components.
Thin Film Deposition Laboratory
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
This is a unique facility used for exploratory development and fabrication of thin films and membranes. The primary feature of this facility is a 1200 square foot Class 100 clean room. It contains multiple thin film deposition chambers, photolithography (1 micron) process equipment for imaging and developing metal and polyamide layers, anodizing and automated electrical test equipment. The Clean room is a Class 100, vertical flow facility (Class 100 = less than 100 particles of contaminant of 0.5 micron (0.000001 meter) in size per cubic meter). One room contains three vapor deposition chambers for applying thin films of metals or insulators up to 3 microns thick. Two rooms contain photolithography equipment for imaging and etching the above films with dimensional accuracy of 1 micron. The last room contains space for electrical testing of the fabricated devices. Connected externally to the Clean room are a de-ionized water plant (pure H2O) and the A/C system to control temperature and humidity.
X-Ray Imaging Technology Development Lab
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
ARDEC is the only DOD agency developing new technology to be implemented in state of the art x-ray imaging systems. This technology includes unique x-ray tubes, highly efficient digital radiation detectors and detector systems, multi-spectral radiographic imagers, cone beam tomographic imaging systems, and automated software analysis of radiographs and tomographs. ARDEC has a patent issued for a multi-spectral baggage inspection system that implements some of the new technology. ARDEC has a patent pending for a method of achieving digital radiographs with little or no scattered radiation, which is the bane of good digital x-ray images. The impact to the military will be the ability to discern defects in materials with greater accuracy and certainty, to create portable x-ray units of considerably less weight for both Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) and medical imaging, to increase the throughput for both medical and NDI imaging systems, to create neutron radiographic systems using neutron tubes rather than nuclear material, to create powerful and efficient neutron based mine detection and baggage inspection equipment. Already ARDEC has developed a state-of-the-art baggage inspection system for explosives detection, is experimenting with multi-energy x-ray for measuring variation in material composition in explosives and propellants, and has implemented computed tomographic systems for finding defects in munitions that are not discernible by radiographic systems. Although the technology is being developed for NDI of manufactured items, it is equally applicable for medical diagnostics, cancer treatment, detection of illicit material (nuclear material, drugs, ammunition, explosives, etc.) at ports of entry (borders, doorways, airports, military bases). The UCT system is a state-of-the-art computed tomography X-ray system. With the ability to render 3D X-ray images and the added unique capability in the eastern United States of an energetic material allowance, full-up ammunition rounds can be examined in their entirety and with very high resolution approaching a few mills (0.003").