SNC Development Capabilities

SNC offers full spectrum engineering support to its customers who desire solutions for Air Traffic Control Systems, Automatic Take-off and Landing Systems for UAV and other aircraft, and a wide variety of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) products. SNC specializes in the following engineering competencies:

Program Management/Project Engineering

  • Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
  • Integrated master planning and scheduling
  • MIL-HDBK-881 consistent WBS planning
  • Integrated resource management
  • Integrated Product Development Process (IPDP)

Systems Engineering

  • SEI CMMI Maturity Level 3 rated Systems Engineering processes
  • Antenna, RF, software, electrical, and mechanical systems designed to operate in shipboard, airborne, and ground based environments
  • Custom architectures, COTS/NDI solutions
  • Requirements synthesis, analysis, and management
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Control systems engineering
  • Subsystem/system integration and testing
  • Ground and flight testing
  • Airborne test platform
  • Reliability and maintainability analysis

Hardware Engineering

  • Antenna, RF, design and development
  • Real-time, high-performance processor design and development
  • Receiver, transmitter, and modulator design and development
  • PLD and FPGA design and development
  • Surface mount and hybrid technology
  • Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  • Antenna test range
  • PCB/PWB bench testing
  • Anechoic chamber and EMI screen room
  • Environmental (temperature) chambers
  • Shock and vibration testing
  • RTCA/DO-254 process capability

Software Engineering

  • SEI CMMI Maturity Level 3 rated Software Engineering processes
  • RTCA/DO-178 process capability
  • Waterfall, Evolutionary, Incremental, Spiral development and methodologies
  • Language independent Object Oriented analysis and design using UML
  • CASE and software development tools operating on PCs
  • Microsoft Certified Application Developers
  • Design and development of embedded systems, VME, Compact PCI, PC 104, custom processors, and micro-controlled boards
  • Development and integration of large distributed real-time systems
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms operating on multiple platforms
  • C, C++, Ada, CMS 2, Visual Basic, and Assembly Language programming
  • Multiple real-time, multi-tasking operating systems
  • VxWorks, PSOS, Solaris, Virtuoso, Windows 2000/NT, Unix, and Linux operating systems

Engineering Services

  • ASME Y14.100 Engineering Drawing Practices
  • 2-D CAD and 3-D modeling
  • PCB/PWB design
  • Schematic capture
  • Components engineering
  • Document and data management
  • Configuration Management - Automated electronic ECO process
  • ILS - supply support, maintenance, technical manuals, and training