Customer Problem: Due to staff shortages, excessive amounts of funding were lost as a result of de-obligation of non-expended funds not being managed; incomplete deliverables; incomplete final invoicing/payments; and misplacement of contract documentation over long periods of time. What INTUITIVE did: Our Contact Closeout Team developed standard operating procedures, training methods, and prepared packages for closeout. …
Customer Problem: A surveillance radar with outdated, proprietary computer hardware and software had limited performance and limited technical refresh capability, with much higher, long term maintenance costs. Use of proprietary systems had also led to decreased reliability, maintainability, and availability, rendering the radar ineffective, and/or inoperable at critical times, resulting in valuable data losses during execution of costly flight and ground…
Customer Problem: Kitting products needed improvements to reduce the time associated with gathering the consumable items and spare parts necessary to conduct major maintenance inspections. Existing kitting products did not meet the needs of the Warfighter. What INTUITIVE did: We assessed all scheduled maintenance requirements and provided a recommendation to the project manager on which of those events could benefit…
Customer Problem: Our customer required an improved Collective Protection Equipment System to protect those in warzone areas against respiratory exposure to toxic industrial compounds and chemical warfare agents. The goal was to improve the producibility and reduce the weight of the recirculation filter assembly systems while reducing overall cost. What INTUITIVE did: INTUITIVE successfully completed design studies to…
Customer Problem: Customer needed ways to reduce energy consumption and energy peak power demand to various facilities. What INTUITIVE did: Assisted in developing and implementing aggressive energy management programs to reduce energy demand and consumption by: Identifying specific projects at specific installations that are cost effective and would make the greatest impact in terms of reducing…
Customer Problem: Our customer needed a robotic improvised explosive device (IED) defeat suite incorporated onto an armored vehicle. Robots were stored inside the vehicles and the soldiers were required to leave the protection of the vehicle to deploy and retrieve the robot placing them in extreme danger from enemy attack. What INTUITIVE did: Using structural and finite…
Customer Problem: Aircraft did not have an existing restraint system for cargo causing in-flight movement and damage to cargo. What INTUITIVE did: Our mechanical engineers performed a feasibility study ensuring all design/strength requirements could be met, followed by detail design, structural and finite element analysis, and acceptance testing. They produced test plans and procedures, as well as…