Experience

The skills and knowledge demonstrated by the JTE team are documented below by discussing each of the six projects that JTE has worked the past 18 months.

SWARMView Project

In September 2003 JTE (Paul LaRoux Project Lead/Engineer) began work on this task (about one-half staff-year level of effort over the period 5 September 2003 through 30 September 2005) as a subcontractor to Titan Corporation (TITAN Subcontract E10708300147 to NAVAIR Contract N00421-01-D-0147) (POC Name: Stephen Brown, NAVAIR Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD 4.3.1), Phone: 301-757-9609). This tasking was to develop a display and control software application to enable a user to display different types of unmanned vehicles simultaneously and control the vehicles using a simple graphical interface. This application’s Network Centric architecture allows for the display and/or control of the vehicles from multiple computers in different locations. SWARMView controls the following unmanned vehicles; “Silver Fox” UAV, “Manta” UAV, “Sea Fox” USV, “Bobo Ski” USV. JTE developed algorithms to provide precise control of the vehicles in a convoy protection roll. These algorithms control the vehicles in formations to provide maximum sensor coverage. The formation of vehicles maintains an orbit a user settable distance in front of the convoy. This project demonstrates JTE capabilities in the Systems Engineering and Software Engineering functional areas.

Pioneer Digital Mapping System (PDMS) Project

In April 2004 JTE (Paul LaRoux Project Lead) began work (about five staff-months of effort over the period 8 April 2004 through 31 March 2005) on the Pioneer Digital Mapping System (PDMS) under contract (NAVAIR N00421-04-P-0643) to NAVAIR (POC Name: Kelly Frome , Naval Air Warfare Center AD (PAX), Phone: 301.995.6033). The project was to develop a replacement for the PDMS system that would allow the use of standard National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) products as a background while displaying the Pioneer Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) location, track, sensor point of interest and Field Of View (FOV). The PDMS provides for capturing log files that allows any users during or after the mission to replay any part or the entire mission. The PDMS network centric architecture allows for the display and/or control of the vehicles from multiple computers in different locations. PDMS was developed to use Microsoft’s .NET framework allowing the application to be written in 1/3 the number of instructional lines of source code as was the old PDMS. This project demonstrated JTE capabilities in the Systems Engineering and Software Engineering functional areas.

VH Executive Transport Loader Project

In June 2004 JTE (Paul LaRoux Project Lead/Engineer) began work on this task (about one-half staff-year of effort over the period 1 June 2004 through 3 September 2005) as a subcontractor to Titan Corporation (TITAN Subcontract E10708300147 to NAVAIR Contract N00421-01-D-0147) for NAVAIR PMA 274. (POC Name: Anibal Delgado CIV COMNAVAIRSYSCOM 4.5.1.2, Phone: 301.342.9165, Patuxent River , MD ) This tasking was to develop a software module to load mission planning data from the Portable Flight Planning Software (PFPS) to a Data Transfer Module (DTM) to initialize the avionics of the VH-60 and VH-3 executive transport helicopters. The application allows the user to designate an area to retrieve the required points and routes, then to format the data into the proper binary format and load it to the DTM. This is a joint development project with government programmers form NAWC developing the code that transforms the data from its native format to the binary image. JTE is responsible for requirements tracking, configuration control, problem reporting tracking, and code development. This project demonstrates JTE capabilities in the Systems Engineering and Software Engineering functional areas.

USMC AH Software Support

In October 2004 JTE (Paul LaRoux Project Lead) began sustainment work on AWE software modules for the Marine Corps AH-1W, AH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft; and work developing a Unique Planning Component (UPC) for the AH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft and an H-1 Upgrades Maintenance Tool. This work (about one staff-year level of effort) is being done under tasking from the H-1 Weapons System Support Activity (WSSA) under NAVAIR PMA 276. (POC Name: Jeanette Adams , NAVAIR 20212.15, Phone: 760-939-5316, China Lake , CA ). This project demonstrates JTE capabilities in the Systems Engineering and Software Engineering functional areas.

Picture Chat Project

In June 2004 JTE (Paul LaRoux Project Lead) began work as a primary technical consulting team for PMA-281. This work (about one-third staff-year level of effort over the period 1 June 2004 through 3 September 2005) is being done as a subcontractor to Titan Corp. (TITAN Subcontract E10708300147 to NAVAIR Contract N00421-01-D-0147) under tasking from NAVAIR PMA 281 (POC Name: Jon Drof , NAVAIR PMA 281, Phone: 301-807-6268, Patuxent River, MD). JTE attends technical meetings and advises PMA-281 on technical matters discussed during the meetings. JTE develops and reviews technical papers and documents, and develops proof of concept prototypes to demonstrate and validate requirements. One of these proof of concept prototypes is the project “Picture Chat”, which is an application that allows users on multiple computers in different locations to draw and display the same picture on all stations simultaneously. This application demonstrates the use of .NET remoting and the ability to distribute data in a net centric manner through firewalls and other network devices (applicable to both PFPS and JMPS). This project demonstrates JTE capabilities in the Research and Development Support and Software Engineering functional areas.

HandHeld AWE Project

In March 2005 JTE (Paul LaRoux Project Lead) commenced work on a task to modify the HandHeld AWE used by special operations forces to use Global Positioning System (GPS) handheld devices in connection with the PFPS. This work (about three staff-months of effort) is being done as a subcontractor to Titan Corp. (TITAN Subcontract E10708300147 to NAVAIR Contract N00421-01-D-0147) under tasking from NAVAIR PMA 281 (POC Name: Michael Boykin , Special Operations Mission Planning Office (SOMPO), Phone: 757-878-1050 X 281, Fort Eustis, VA). This project demonstrates JTE capabilities in the Software Engineering functional area.