Capabilities

hardware fabrication lifecycle

CTA’s experience fielding over 40 unique electronic countermeasures and emitter threat simulator subsystems for airborne and surface applications has shown that successful completion of complex hardware manufacture requires integration among engineering, management, inventory control, purchasing, fabrication, and quality assurance.  Our manufacturing process is segregated into three distinct phases:  manufacturing planning, fabrication/assembly and final testing.

Hardware design and development tasks are predicated on a careful blend of management controls and defined, realistic, and repeatable hardware development practices.  For over 13 years, CTA has supported Point Mugu in the analysis, design, development, maintenance, upgrade, enhancement, repair, and acquisition of multiple types of hardware devices.  To respond quickly, accurately, and consistently, CTA has established and documented its Hardware Development Practices for designing, fabricating, and testing hardware systems in all lifecycle phases, from concept exploration and definition through production, retrofit, and repair.  These documented practices are flexible, allowing new methods to be incorporated as technology advances, and are tailored for application to a wide spectrum of projects; from full-scale hardware development such as the HH Modulator to build-to-print fabrication.