Defense Design & Manufacturing

Capabilities

CAD | Experience | QCSB | ISO

CTA has established a unique hardware development capability in the area of avionics test, operational flight programs, simulation laboratories, and weapon system integration.  Since 1995, CTA has been using these capabilities to team with the Airborne Threat Simulation Organization in the development of electronic countermeasures (ECM) and emitter threat simulator subsystems and pods and has ongoing direct experience manufacturing, testing, modifying, and repairing hardware.

Full Service CAD, fabrication, test, repair and documentation:

• Mechanical and packaging engineering
• Electrical engineering
• CAD and Inventor engineering and drafting
• Solid modeling and electro-mechanical design
• Certified to ANSI Y 14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• Fabrication workstations with surface mount capability
• Mechanical assembly, cabling, wiring harness, circuit card, digital, analog, RF fabrication
• MIL STD 2000 Soldering Requirements
• MIL STD 454 Workmanship Standards
• Configuration Control Specialists
• First Article manufacturing, test and documentation
• Documentation/drawing package validation
• Computer-aided manufacturing file creation
• Highly trained and experienced procurement, manufacturing, and quality assurance personnel
• Materials and assemblies tracking database (Government-approved inventory control system)

Experience:

• High quality hardware-in-the-loop test and evaluation, flight rated hardware, instrumentation equipment, electronic warfare equipment and data collection/reduction systems
• 25 different assemblies including cables, circuit card assemblies and universal control boxes
• Kit Assembly, documentation, fabrication and test
• Fabricate, test, deliver, repair, redesign and document ECM systems and subsystems
• Manufacture and repair multiple electronic warfare, ECM, threat radar simulator and target systems pods (AN/ALQ-167, AST-6, AST-9, BQM-74E and others)

Qualified Certified Small Business

With under 500 employees, CTA’s manufacturing operation qualifies as a small business to help you meet your small business goals.

ISO 9001:2008

The CTA ISO quality system is independently certified for development and manufacturing processes, including:

• Quality control.
• Inventory control.
• Assembly and test procedures.

CTA’s QA Program is conducted in accordance with ISO 9001:2008, the CTA Quality Manual, and the CTA Quality Systems Manual.  Manufacturing personnel adhere to the requirements of MIL-STD-454 Workmanship Standard as well as the soldering and inspections standards of MIL-STD-2000. All manufacturing personnel were recently recertified under J-STD-001.  Our QA program ensures that any non-conformance issues identified during material and component incoming inspection, manufacturing, or Government acceptance testing is immediately documented and researched to determine the root cause, identify corrective actions required for the problem, update the appropriate processes to prevent reoccurrence, and repair any affected assemblies.

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