Weapons Systems & Target Vehicles

CTI engineers have broad-based experience providing tactical weapons system and launch vehicle development and testing.



Specific experience and areas of expertise include:

  • Tactical weapons programs — Small Diameter Bomb II, Hellfire II, APKWS, WCMD, JASSM, LGB, and DMLGB
  • Launch vehicle programs — ground- and air-launched suborbital target vehicles
  • Guidance, navigation and control (GN&C)
  • Autopilot design and analysis
  • System performance analysis
  • Avionics specification and design
  • Software requirements
  • High-fidelity 6DOF Simulation Modeling
  • Aerodynamic prediction
  • Range safety analyses, including debris analysis and worst case turns
  • UDS inputs (PI, PRD, ORD)
  • TM displays, vehicle interface
  • Formal H/W & S/W qualification testing, hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), modal surveys, system level integration testing, wind tunnel testing
  • Launch site integration and flight test
  • Flight reconstruction
  • Simulation verification
  • IV & V of Autopilot/GNC Designs
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