Cuyamaca College
Environmental Technology Program
U.S. Air Force
Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center
Composite Design and Manufacture: Advanced composites are sophisticated fiber reinforced polymers used to replace metal construction and are corrosion resistant, stronger and more difficult to detect with radar. Areas of expertise are in structural design, field and depot repair, full finite element analysis, bonding autoclaves, thermoplastic molding, paperless direct CAD/CAM interface to numerical control milling machines, aircraft transparency design and manufacture, and radar antenna and aircraft window manufacture.
Microelectronics: Redesign and retrofit obsolete/nonprocurable microcircuits and electronic subsystems; convert old technology systems. Areas of expertise are in precision mask generation/photo lithography, IC manufacturing, environmental testing, contract data evaluation, system redesign, design archiving and obsolete component replacement.
Non-destructive Inspection: Owns the world's largest robotics detectors that examine the inner workings of an aircraft's entire structural body. These devices can detect cracks in metallic structures, corrosion, moisture, and structural defects in metal and composite parts.
Areas of expertise are in state-of-the-art detection/repair of honeycomb materials, large scale gantry laser ultrasonic inspection, laser holography, infrared imaging, real-time x-ray radiographic inspection, shearography, pulse echo ultrasonic, propulsion system and advanced materials validation, eddy current and magnetic rubber inspection.
Flight Test Center
Aerodynamics, aerospace engineering, aviation, climatic tests, flight test, remote pilot systems, simulators, spacecraft, structural analyses, test facilities, weapon testing.
Phillips Laboratory
Propulsion Directorate: Development center for all Air Force rocket propulsion technologies including solid propellant rocket motors and liquid propellant rocket fuel systems and engines. The technological development of rocket propulsion systems includes propellants, combustion, characterization of rocket exhaust pluses, and the materials and structures that are unique to rocket propulsion.
Space and Missile Technology Directorate: Application of advanced materials to spacecraft launch vehicle structures. These include a wide variety of advanced composites such as carbon-carbon, and thermoplastic formulations. Current applications include rocket nozzles, payload shrouds, lightweight solar arrays, and structural members.
Space Experiments Directorate: Integrates new space technologies into ground-based space simulation research and demonstrations and implementation in actual space flights. Efforts include spacecraft and satellite integration, propulsion systems, hover and space flight, and sensor technology.
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