Portfolio
California Polytechnic State University – Optionally Piloted Aircraft
DCC supported the development, integration, and test of an optionally piloted aircraft (OPA) for California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), including the aircraft conversion, its ground control station, and its communications links. Converted from a fixed-wing aircraft, the OPA serves as a “laboratory in the sky” for student engineering projects.
Advanced Air Mobility – Uncrewed Flight Test Support
DCC designed, developed, and tested ground control station systems for remotely piloted aircraft, spanning system architecture, hardware, software, networking, and C2 and telemetry datalinks. Work included pre-flight datalink risk reduction testing and flight test engineering support.
Small Jet Engine Test Instrumentation
DCC designed and integrated custom instrumentation packages for small jet engine test programs across ground, altitude chamber, and flight test environments. Work covered system design, electrical schematics, wire harness fabrication, sensor integration and validation, software drivers connecting instrumentation to test interfaces, and on-site test support, along with consulting on test stand design and test planning.
Uncrewed Aircraft – Systems Engineering
DCC provides systems engineering support for uncrewed aircraft programs, including system architecture, requirements development, verification and validation, safety analyses, FMEA, qualitative reliability analysis, environmental test planning and reporting, and CDRL deliverables.
Modeling & Simulation
DCC builds physics-based models and simulations for engineering applications, including engine dynamics for closed-loop controller development, electro-optical sensor performance and detection range, and weapon impulse and recoil estimation.
UAS Flight Software
DCC developed flight computer software infrastructure for uncrewed aircraft, primarily in VxWorks, spanning kernel space, application user space, and automated code generation toolchains.
Machine Vision – Training Data Automation
DCC developed tools that automatically extract and annotate imagery from raw video to support training of object detection and tracking models.
Weapon System Integration & Test
DCC performed final system integration at the customer site and provided on-site flight test support.