Aviation Engineering

CDI is a leading provider of military aviation support equipment and Aircraft Launch and Recovery Systems and Equipment (ALRE) engineering solutions and services. CDI is currently supporting NAVAIR Lakehurst NJ and Patuxent River MD, NAVAIRDEPOT Jax, NAVAIRDEPOT North Island, NAVICP, and WR-ALC and Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. Core competencies include analytical mechanics, electrical and mechanical engineering, and test engineering. CDI also provides reverse engineering solutions solving parts obsolescence problems for out of production avionic or support equipment.

Naval Aviation

CDI specializes in providing the following Analytical Mechanics services:

  • »Design Concepts
  • »Feasability Studies
  • »Electrical / Mechanical / Hydraulic / Pneumatic System Design
  • »Mathematical Modeling
  • »Modal Analysis
  • »System Simulators
  • »Stress / Strain Analysis
  • »Fracture Mechanics
  • »Thermal & Heat Transfer Analysis
  • »Shock Analysis, Technical Data Package Preparation
  • »Manufacturing Design Analysis, and Prototype Models

CDI offers significant electrical and mechanical engineering support equipment design expertise and provides test engineering support services with the development and production support of Test Program Sets (TPSs) highlighting the following:

  • »Design and testing of new aviation support equipment
  • »Parts obsolescence management and reverse engineering
  • »Unit Under Test suitability / cost effectiveness for automatic testing on Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)
  • »Offload studies and task execution of existing Test Programs to new target ATE
  • »Test Strategy Development
  • »Test Software Development
  • »Interface Device Design and Production
  • »Test Program Data Development
  • »Database Management Software Development for Acquisition Cost Models