ATA Engineering has been successfully supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and its prime contractors for more than two decades through exceptional engineering services augmented by the development of novel engineering methods and tools. ATA has supported the development of a wide range of vehicles and systems, including hypersonic systems, directed energy weapons, armored vehicles, ruggedized field shelters, missiles and targets, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), rotorcraft, ships, and submarines.
ATA has a proven track record of solving complex engineering problems with innovative, leading-edge defense solutions. In recent years, as hypersonic systems and directed energy weapons have become strategic technologies for the United States, ATA developed an ecosystem of advanced modeling and simulation tools pivotal to providing engineering support to clients who are focused on defense technology and the future of warfare. This ecosystem includes a multiphysics toolset that allows thermal, fluid dynamics, and structural solvers to operate in a fully coupled fashion to capture complex phenomena. Also included are advanced integrated computational material engineering and process modeling tools that can predict the properties and performance of novel thermal protection systems as well as the most efficient methods to produce them and maximize the desired properties, and signature analysis and prediction tools that are fully embedded with the other advanced capabilities within this ecosystem. The company’s engineering team has also played a crucial role in advancing directed energy weapons (DEWs) by developing sophisticated models that analyze laser effects and identify optimal target locations.
On the ground, ATA has analyzed both wheeled and tracked armored vehicles for a wide range of environmental and loading conditions, and we have enhanced the performance of ruggedized field shelters through tailored design modifications driven by thermal analysis and evaluation of the impact of a range of coatings and insulation materials. In the air, ATA has significantly contributed to various missile and target programs with complex analyses of solid rocket motors and the development of advanced multibody dynamics models for ad hoc missile deployment systems. ATA also has extensive experience performing coupled loads analyses for missiles and target payloads. Regarding fixed-wing aircraft , our engineers have helped develop cargo planes, bombers, and fighter jets through weight and structural optimization, modal and operational testing and analysis, in-cabin and external acoustic analysis, computational fluid dynamics and aeroelastic stability predictions, and thermal and stress analysis. In the realm of UAVs and rotorcraft , ATA has developed a suite of advanced tools that can be used to assess metrics such as rotor stability, performance, vibrations, loads, fatigue, and acoustics and can act as virtual test beds for performance enhancements and risk mitigation techniques. Lastly, we have performed detailed stress and fatigue analysis, designed critical components, and developed advanced methods for automating and streamlining the creation of finite element models for ships and submarines.
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