Laboratory Information:
Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division - Lakehurst
Rt. 547, Bldg. 150-2
Lakehurst, NJ 08733-5055
Website: http://www.navair.navy.mil/lakehurst/nlweb/index-non-flash.asp
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.navair.navy.mil/lakehurst/nlweb/lke-bdo/technology-transfer.asp
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Navy
Region: Northeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Gaetan Mangano
Phone: (732) 323-2899
Fax: (732) 323-3758
Email: gaetan.mangano@navy.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The Naval Air
Warfare Center is one of the Navy's largest research,
engineering, development, test, and evaluation complexes.
Primarily a civilian organization, the Naval Air Warfare
Center has a military commanding officer, a civilian
director, and a staff of over 3,600, two-thirds of whom are
engineers, scientists, and technical personnel. Situated on
7,400 wooded acres in Lakehurst, N.J., the center is
approximately 60 miles from Philadelphia and Atlantic City,
70 miles from New York City, and 10 miles from New
Jersey's famed seashore resorts. The site has extensive
engineering, research, and industrial facilities; there are
also well instrumented field test facilities that are
available nowhere else in the world. The center, which
supports fleet operations, serves as the Navy's aircraft
platform interface center of expertise.
Mission of the Laboratory:
The center's
mission is to provide quality products and services to the
fleet in support of naval aviation. To accomplish this, the
center: Conducts programs of research, engineering,
development, system integration, limited production,
procurement, integrated logistic support management, and
fleet engineering support in aircraft launching, recovery,
and landing aid systems and support equipment and
instrumentation used in tests. Provides, operates and
maintains test sites, facilities, and support services for
tests of the above systems and equipment and conducts R&D
of equipment and instrumentation used in tests. Provides
system engineering support services and supports DoD
standardization and specification programs. Provides services
and material and operates and maintains aviation and other
facilities in support of assigned programs and other
activities and units as designated by the appropriate
authority. Testing Facilities Available to Private Sector:
Engineering the center's engineering facilities are used
to investigate and apply the latest advances in such fields
as highenergy technology; electronics; cryogenics;
synthetics; automatic test equipment; mechanical, electrical,
and electronic systems design; corrosion control; hydraulic
and lubrication systems; and optical systems. Research
laboratory facilities are used to explore such areas as
metallurgy and synthetic materials, advanced optics,
nondestructive inspection, acoustics, and state of the art
electronic control systems. Test and Evaluation test
facilities perform a full range of development and
operational evaluations of equipment and aircraft. The
facilities include two steam catapults, shipboard and
shoretype arresting gear, a 12,000 foot runway, five
highspeed jetcar test tracks, and a helicopter test and
evaluation complex. Computers specialized computer personnel
and the most modern, advanced computer facilities support the
research, engineering, and test activities at the center. In
addition to mathematical prediction modeling, computations,
and analytical programs, the computer facility's digital
incremental plotter provides a pictorial representation of
data, and its motion analyzer measures and analyzes data
directly from films of test sequences. Fabrication the
center's industrial facilities are used to fabricate
specialized hardware for catapults, arresting gear, visual
landing aids, and aircraft support equipment.
Facilities:
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Commercial Service Agrrement (CSA)
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- NAVAIR Headquarters Contracts & Awards
- Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Contracts & Awards
- On-line Solicitations
- Patent License Agreements
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Horizontal Acceleration Facility
- Human Systems
- Information Warfare Systems
- Key West Detachment
- Life Support & Personal Protection
- ACETEF
- Aeromechanics
- Air Vehicle
- Air Vehicle Design & Integration
- Air Vehicle Subsystems
- Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Fleet Technical Support
- Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment In-Service Engineering
- Aircraft Support Equipment ATE Hardware / Software Design / Development
- Aircraft Support Equipment Elect / Mech ISE
- Aircraft Support Equipment TPS Design / Development
- Aircraft Support Equipment TPS ISE
- Airframe, Ordnance, and Propulsion Systems
- Airworthiness
- ALRE & SE Product Evaluation Verification
- ATE Hardware / Software In-Service Engineering
- Atlantic Ranges and Facilities
- Auxilary Power & Mechnical
- Avionics & Electronics
- Avionics Systems Engineering
- Carrier Suitability & Support Equipment
- Communication & Navigation
- Computer & Information Sciences
- Cost Analysis
- Crew Systems
- Crew Systems Engineering
- Ejection Tower Facility
- Electrical Power
- Electromagnetic Environmental Effects
- Electromagnetic Environmental Effects
- Emergency Egress/ Crashworthy Escape Systems
- Engine Development & Support
- Environmental Lab
- Fuels & Lubricants
- Guidance and Control
- Logistics
- Materials Division
- Mission Systems
- Night Combat Test Facility
- OALRE & SE Manufacturing and Prototyping
- Platform Simulation and Integration Laboratory Engineering
- Power & Propulsion Facilities
- Propulsion & Power
- SE/ ALR Acquisition Management
- Sensor Systems
- Ship & Shore Based Systems
- Simulation & Stimulation Division
- Software Engineering
- Structures Division
- Support & Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Elec. / Mech. Design / Development
- Support & Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment System Engineering
- Systems Development Integration Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Test & Evaluation
- Test Article Preparation
- Test Wing Atlantic
- Training Systems
- Warfare Analysis
- US Naval Test Pilot School
- Weapons
- Weapons / Targets Support Equipment
- Weapons and Targets Systems Engineering
- Weapons Prototyping
- Weapons Science and Technology
