Product Engineering Assessment Department

The Product Engineering Assessment Department assesses weapons and combat system tests, functional interoperability, and reliability.

Test Systems Assessment analyzes test systems, either off-line or embedded, for effectiveness and suitability. Any test is only as valuable as the information it provides; test systems assessments maximizes this value.

Interface Assessment determines the functional interoperability (form, fit, function, safety, and interchangeability) between systems, systems and subsystems, and subsystems and components, throughout the lifecycle. In addition, Interface Assessment provides calibration support for unique physical requirements.

Weapons Assessment provides a total lifecycle view for surface missile hardware by integrating missile maintenance and management information into single coherent picture. This single picture supports numerous engineering analyses, including Safety, Reliability, Warranty, Location, Contract, Test and condition code information; Weapon and Stockpile reliability prediction; and maintenance and retrofit decisions.

NSWC Corona’s Product Engineering Department is also the home of the Corona Item-Unique Identification Center (IUID) Center, which provides numerous services including IUID implementation assistance, IUID training, and unbiased, independent assessment of IUID hardware, software, and services.

Core Functions

Test Systems Assessment

• Apply Disciplined Approach to System Testing Assessment
• Measure Test Systems Effectiveness And Suitability
• Gauge Test System and Supporting Elements’ Suitability
• Assess System Diagnostic Capabilities.

Interface Assessment

• Interface Control Planning
• Design Analysis
• Acceptance Inspection Equipment Design, Assessment
• Gage and Tooling Certification
• Standards Calibrated with Traceability to NIST

Weapons Assessment

• Evaluate weapon reliability by specific populations (eg: battle group)
• Evaluate missile processing facilities
• Support flight failure investigations with Missile Life Cycle information
• Support troubleshooting field & factory test system incompatibilities
• Provide qualification test results assessment
• Analyze fleet and intermediate level warranty failure
• Provide missile hardware failure trends & corrective actions

Customers

• Department of Energy (DOE)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• US Army
• US Air Force
• Marine Corps
• Industry
• NAVSEA
• NAVAIR
• AEGIS
• Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)
• Surface Ship Undersea Warfare
• Ships Self Defense System (SSDS)
• Rolling Airframe Missile
• STANDARD Missile
• SIDEWINDER Missile
• TOMAHAWK
• Harpoon
• CEC
• Hellfire
• Trident
• Vertical Launch System
• Quality Assurance Information System ( Egypt)
• Integrated Project Management System
• Affordable Weapon System
• Missile Defense Agency (SM-3)
• Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS)