Capabilities
Avion Solutions brings an extensive portfolio of capabilities, positioning us as a trusted partner for government agencies in solving complex technical and operational challenges. With deep expertise in systems and digital engineering, program management, Integrated Product Support, testing and analysis, and modeling and simulation we consistently deliver innovative, effective solutions across various domains.
Additionally, we offer comprehensive Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) and Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to a wide range of DoD customers, driving mission success and operational excellence.
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT & DESIGN
Avion provides a comprehensive range of technical expertise to support aviation and missile technology development and system design.
- Aeromechanics: Aircraft dynamics, aerodynamics, flight performance, handling qualities, mass properties, and simulation.
- Electro-Optical / Infrared / Thermal Sensors: High-fidelity signature model development and validation; electro-optical and infrared phenomenology analysis.
- Material Property Analysis: Analysis of material property measurements (thermophysical, thermomechanical, optical, radar, thermochemical) and high temperature testing due to ascent, reentry, and endo-atmospheric glide.
- Mission System Technical: Communication, navigation, and surveillance, electromagnetic interference, man-machine interface, environmental effects, weapon and sensor integration.
- Propulsion: Turbine-engine design, drive-system design, fatigue life prediction, engine performance, integration and operability.
- Targets Design and Performance: Missile performance prediction, missile target system design, development and fielding.
AIRWORTHINESS CERTIFICATION
Avion provides comprehensive life-cycle airworthiness expertise encompassing design, continuing, and production airworthiness support for DoD military aircraft systems, including civil derivative aircraft systems.
- Design Airworthiness: Qualification of aircraft design to military airworthiness standards.
- Assess airworthiness artifacts from test, analysis, and demonstrations.
- Develop Airworthiness Qualification Plans.
- Develop military airworthiness criteria, including means of compliance.
- Issue findings through Airworthiness Releases, Airworthiness Qualification Status Reports, and Statements of Airworthiness Qualification.
- Continuing Airworthiness Support: Actions throughout the life-cycle that maintain the aircraft in an airworthy condition.
- Assess vendor qualifications to maintain sources of supply.
- Evaluate field-revealed deficiencies through Quality Deficiency Reports.
- Evaluate maintenance and overhaul processes of Critical Safety Items.
- Update aircraft maintenance manuals.
- Production Airworthiness: Verify production aircraft meets the original, qualified design and type certifications.
- Assess and approve vendor/source approvals of production parts.
- Assess non-conformance issues through material review boards.
- Evaluate deviations and waivers during manufacture.
Program Support
Avion provides comprehensive programmatic support to foster successful outcomes. From program management and budgeting to risk management and stakeholder communications, we oversee every aspect to align strategic goals with regulatory requirements, leading to efficient project completion.
- Budgeting and Financial Management: Develop and manage program budgets, including cost estimation, financial tracking, and resource allocation.
- Contract Management: Manage contract performance and compliance with terms and conditions.
- Documentation and Reporting: Prepare and maintain comprehensive documentation and reports on program status, progress, and outcomes.
- Performance Monitoring: Track program performance against established metrics and benchmarks to identify areas for improvement.
- Program Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and completion of contracts to support strategic goals and comply with regulatory requirements.
- Scheduling: Develop and maintain detailed project schedules to support timely completion of program milestones and deliverables.
- Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate communication and coordination among project stakeholders, including military personnel, government officials, contractors, and other stakeholders.
LIFE-CYCLE ENGINEERIng
Avion offers comprehensive life-cycle engineering support for the sustainment of DoD systems, including aircraft maintenance and overhaul, supply chain management, and continuing airworthiness.
- Airworthiness Assurance: Evaluate depot and field level maintenance for continuing airworthiness of US military rotary wing and uncrewed aircraft systems fleet.
- Critical Safety Item Management: Oversee CSI items and the Critical Characteristics essential to system safety.
- Deviation and Waiver Approvals: Manage exceptions to standard specifications for spare parts and overhaul contracts to maintain operational efficiency.
- Environmental Compliance: Facilitate toxic material reduction within depot and field maintenance operations.
- First Article Testing: Plan tests and evaluate results to verify that first article production parts meet required specifications.
- Maintenance Engineering: Evaluate Technical Manual and Depot Maintenance Work Request changes through Maintenance Engineering Calls and Orders.
- Production Audits: Perform thorough inspections of production facilities and processes to support compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
- Production Verification Testing: Plan tests and evaluate results confirming that production processes consistently yield products that meet quality standards.
- Source Approval Requests: Verify supplier compliance with criteria for manufacturing components.
INTEGRATED PRODUCT SUPPORT
Avion provides Integrated Product Support expertise across essential logistics domains, optimizing performance and extending the longevity of operational assets throughout the acquisition life-cycle.
- Configuration Management: Monitor and document changes in systems and equipment. Support consistent and reliable configurations throughout the life-cycle.
- Depot Operations: Manage depot-level repair and overhaul activities. Achieve high standards of quality and efficiency in all depot operations.
- Life-Cycle Support Planning: Comprehensive planning to support weapons systems assets from acquisition to disposal. Strategic assessment and resource allocation to support sustained operational readiness.
- Logistics Engineering: Apply engineering principles to optimize logistics processes and enhance the reliability, maintainability, and supportability of weapons systems.
- Maintenance Planning: Develop detailed maintenance plans to support the operational availability of systems. Schedule preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
- New Equipment Training: Provide comprehensive training for new equipment and systems. Train personnel to acceptable proficiency levels in the operation and maintenance of new systems.
- Property Management: Manage system assets and equipment. Track and maintain asset condition and location.
- Provisioning: Identify and acquire necessary spare parts and supplies and provide timely availability of resources to avoid operational disruptions.
- Supply Chain Management: Optimize the supply chain to support efficient flow of materials and information, reduce costs, and improve the responsiveness of the supply chain.
- Technical Data Management: Create, organize, and maintain technical documentation. Provide accurate and up-to-date information for maintenance and operational tasks.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Avion provides Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), comprehensive systems engineering, and Digital Engineering support to a range of DoD aviation and missile systems.
- Architectural Design: Develop logical, functional, and physical architectures during system design and development.
- Configuration and Data Management: Identify and control configuration items and storage, maintenance, control, use, and exchange of digital data artifacts.
- Requirements Management: Define requirements, decomposition, and traceability utilizing MBSE System Modeling Language tools.
- Risk Management: Track system level technical risks, issues, and opportunities. Conduct risk mitigation analyses and recommendations.
- Safety Management: Develop plans and actions to identify hazards, assess and mitigate risks, and track and control risks throughout the design life-cycle.
- System Design Integration, Validation and Verification: Determine system level performance through demonstration and test and analysis. Show effectiveness, suitability, and survivability to meet end-user standards.
Testing and Analysis
Avion provides both ground and flight test planning and analysis for aviation and missile systems during rapid capability prototyping, engineering manufacturing development, and airworthiness qualification tests.
Missile and Hypersonic Systems
- Flight Test Planning: Analyze test feasibility, pre-mission assessments, safety and kinematics, and sensor requirements.
- Ground Test Planning: Develop ground test scenarios mapping trajectories and optimizing test cases to requirements.
- Ground Test Truth Data Analysis: Analyze actual to planned signatures and kinematics.
- Model Validation: Update model predictions with sensor assessment and target validation data.
- On-Site Flight Test Support: Generate quick look data analysis, rapid test results briefings, best estimate trajectory analysis.
- Post Flight Phenomenology: Develop test data for post flight Truth Summits.
- Range Safety Predictions: Determine keep-out zones and generate worst-case turn trajectory predictions.
- Working Groups: Analyze test data for signature and debris monitoring working groups.
Aviation Systems
- Airworthiness Qualification Tests: Plan tests and evaluate results for airworthiness qualification ground and flight tests.
- Test Program Planning: Develop Test and Evaluation Master Plans and system performance verification test requirements.
MODELING AND SIMULATION
Avion provides modeling and simulation services to meet the diverse needs of the our customers. Our expertise spans various advanced techniques and technologies, with high accuracy and reliability in our simulations.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics: Analyze rotor blade and hub systems for aerodynamics, structural dynamics, blade motions, aeroacoustics, and vortex interactions.
- Electro-Optical/Infrared Phenomenology: Analyze expected vs. actual signature levels, features, and thermal/IR correlation.
- Engine Performance: Model gas turbine engine power cycle, compressor performance, torque, combustor temperature, and exhaust signatures.
- Flight Performance: Model helicopter flight performance in hover, cruise, climb, and autorotation.
- High-Fidelity Optical Signature: Model optical signatures for object/sensor pairs and validate models with thermal and infrared data.
- Multi-Sensor Correlation: Develop tools for optimizing metric and signature data from multiple sensors. Examine and correlate data from multiple sensors, wavebands, and frequencies on multiple objects during flight test.
- Plume Signature and Attenuation Modeling: Predict rocket motor plume signatures and plume RF attenuation using state-of-the art flowfield and plume codes.
- Radar Prediction: Radar characterization of test targets, predictions for flight and ground test sensors, and metric analysis.
- Solid Mechanics: Model engine and drive system, rotor, and control system components for static, creep, and fatigue.
- Trajectory Simulation: Develop trajectory predictions for objects on missile flight tests using physics-based codes and Monte Carlo analysis.
ISO Certification
We maintain ISO 9001:2015 certification.
NAICS Codes
Avion provides services under the following NAICS codes:
- 541330: Engineering Services
- 541380: Laboratory Testing
- 541420: Industrial Design
- 541511: Computer Programming
- 541512: Computer Systems Design
- 541611: Business Consulting & Program Support
- 541614: Logistics Consulting
- 541715: Research and Development