AVNIK personnel have strong Engineering, Software, Military, and Acquisition Logistics backgrounds supporting DoD weapons systems Research & Development and lifecycle management:

• Strategic Project Planning for Technology Programs/Activities
• Concept Development and Requirements Analysis
• Systems Design/Engineering/Integration
• Test and Evaluation
• Integrated Logistics Support, Integrated Product Support
• Acquisition and Life Cycle Management

Functional Expertise Includes:

• Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Prime Contracts Phase I, Phase II in support of NAVAIR, ONR, Army Aviation
• Resource Management / Cost Analysis / Schedule Development / Program Management, Plans & Integration / Strategic Planning / International Program Support / Security Assistance / Operations Research Systems Analysis
• Design Interface / Maintenance Planning / Manpower & Personnel / Supply Support / Support Equipment / Training & Training Support / Technical Data / Computer Resources / PHS&T / Facilities & Infrastructure / Product Support Management / Sustaining Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Supervised Autonomous Systems
• Industrial Operations (IO) - Value Engineering, Sustainment Engineering, and Logistics Engineering
• MANPRINT - Human Factors Engineering, Safety/Health Hazard Assessment, O&S Cost Assessment, and New Technologies
• Software Development, 3D Graphics, Immersive Technologies (Visual, Audio, Hands-Free, Tactile) using 3D without glasses (Autostereoscopy), Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Focused Sound, Hand/Body Tracking, and Ultra-Haptics
• iOPRATE^TM- immersive Operational Planning, Remote maintenance Assistance, Training Environment 
• Joint Capabilities Integration and Development Systems (JCIDS), Acquisition Policy for Defense Business Systems (DBS)
• Network Integration Evaluation (NIE), Command and Control (C2), Test & Evaluation
• Signal Processing, Guidance Technology, Infrared (IR), Radio Frequency (RF), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) System Simulation & Modeling 
• Structures and Materials - Finite Element Model (FEM), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Fatigue Testing, Fatigue Life Tracking, Direct Loads Monitoring, and Automated Non Destructive Test Inspection (NDTI)/ Non Destructive Test Equipment (NDT)
• Test and Evaluation (T&E) - TEMPs, expertise
• Product Assurance - Reliability Availability Maintainability-Cost (RAM-C), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+), Aviation Data Exploitation Capability (ADEC), Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance (MFOQA)
• Digital Source Collectors (DSCs) Modernized Signal Processing Unit (MSPU) / Integrated Vehicle Health Management System (IVHMS), Health Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS), Flight Data Recorders/Cockpit Voice Recorders
• Enhanced Diagnostics Dynamic Components - Vibration Management
• Enhanced Diagnostics Structural Components - Regime Recognition/Structural Usage Monitoring Systems (SUMS), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Design / Detection / Localization / Classification / Prognostics
• Enhanced Diagnostics Electronic Components- Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) 
• Electronics Diagnostic Condition Indicators (CIs) and Prognostic Algorithms for Early Warning of an Incipient Failure - Embedded GPS Inertial (EGI)
• Wireless data migration using Combat Service Support Automated Information Systems Interface (CAISI)and Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) from On/At-Platform applications throughout the Single Army Logistics Enterprise (SALE) Army Integrated Logistics Architecture (AILA) and Common Logistics Operating Environment (CLOE)
• Verification/Validation
• Project Controls, Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Engineering Quality Management, Manufacturing Processes, Lean Six-Sigma
• Training Devices Development/Manufacturing - Develops, tests, manufactures, and validates Army Aviation Training Devices for Turbine Engine/Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), and AH-64 infrared and electro-optical systems
• Analytics - Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) 
• New Equipment Training (NET)
• International Programs/Foreign Military Sales (FMS)

Experience:

AVNIK employees have experience supporting various technical, logistics, and programmatic initiatives for US Army Aviation, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Missile and Space systems.  Example systems include AH-64, CH-47, Future Vertical Lift (FLRAA and FARA), H-1, OH-58, UH-60A/L/M/V, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), V-22, Air Traffic Control (ATC) Systems, Special Operations Aviation Regiment – Airborne (SOAR-A) MH-47/MH-60 helicopter platforms, Aviation Turbine Engine (ATE) T701/T901/Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), Hellfire Missiles, CCWS/Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions (TAGM, e,g., Bradley Missile Launch Guidance, Ground TOWTOW Missile, M220, Improved Target Acquisition System [ITAS]), and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and also National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Launch System (SLS) Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) for the Space Station.