Hardware Engineering

TCI's principle objective for hardware engineering is to provide iterative functional analyses to define successively lower level functional and performance requirements, including functional and physical interfaces, and associated architecture design to achieve VME, OSA, and interoperable capabilities. Our hardware design approach partitions a system into self-contained, functionally cohesive, interchangeable, and adaptable elements to enable ease of evolutionary change, incorporate technology enhancement/backward compatibility and mitigate technical risk and potential obsolescence.

Our engineering staff assists in the review of program development and prototyping technical documentation; assessing test plans and results; validation of technical specifications, identifying design deficiencies; assessing technical risk, and providing lower risk alternatives. We track and report correction of problems and discrepancies discovered during design and technical documentation reviews, audits, land base, and operational testing. TCI provides the following engineering services:

• Support C4ISR IPTs and working groups for hardware technology design and risks.
• Participate in PMCR, TIM, SRR/SDR/PDR/CDRs, FCA/PCA for hardware engineering analysis, review, and performance.
• Assist in the design development, testing, documentation of prototype, EDM, and production equipment and systems.
• Review of test plans, procedures and records and support shock, vibration, thermal, EMI/EMC/EMP, structure borne noise, and RCS design analysis and testing.
• Provide test witnessing to DVT, QCI, and FAI testing programs.
• Performance specification and ICD traceability requirements tracking.