ATA Company Overview - Applied Technology Associates

ATAMIR
WSMR
ATA’s Expanded Facility
ATA has completed a 26,000 ft2 expansion bringing
the total size of its Albuquerque headquarters to
41,100 ft2. The expansion includes 7,200 ft2 of high
bay space for spacecraft AI&T. In addition, it
includes a 2,200 ft2 secure facility, 3,250 ft2 of
expanded manufacturing space, and an additional
4,500 ft2 of laboratory space.
ATA Aerospace is a Joint
Venture of ATA and
ASRC Aerospace, with
ATA as the managing
partner, created for the
AFRL RV Space
Technology Research
Analysis Integration and
Test (STRAIT) contract
that was awarded in April 2007. ATA Aerospace
provides engineering services; design, fabrication
and assembly; integration and test; mission
services; program management and
administration; and integration and test facilities
services for STRAIT platforms such as satellites,
space buses, and near space/high-altitude
balloons.
The U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)
awarded the ATAMIR-WSMR, Joint Venture (JV) a
five-year contract for Test Engineering and Analysis
Support (TE&AS) Services in 2008. ATAMIR-WSMR
is a second JV between ATA and MIRATEK
Corporation, with ATA as the managing partner. The
TE&AS contract supports WSMR in meeting the
needs of government and commercial customers
testing at WSMR facilities.
Under the TE&AS contract, ATAMIR-WSMR
provides systems engineering and analysis services
that include test planning, execution, analysis, and
reporting of test results from a weapon system's
hardware and software perspective. ATAMIR WSMR
provides hardware and software engineering
support, both development of new products, as well
as the maintenance of existing systems. In addition, it
performs general test support tasks such as
automatic data processing operations, data
management, documentation services, and financial
management services.
ATA
Applied Technology Associates
www.atacorp.com
Precision Sensing,
Measurement and
Controls
Company
Overview
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ATA is the managing partner
of all three Joint Venures.
A-Tech Corporation, d.b.a.
Applied Technology Associates
1300 Britt Street SE
Albuquerque, NM 87123 U.S.A.
www.atacorp.com
Phone: (505) 767-1200
Fax: (505) 768-1379
[email protected]
Precision Sensing, Measurement, and Controls
About ATA
Inertial Measurement Units
Fast Steering Mirrors
A-Tech Corporation, d.b.a. Applied Technology
Associates (ATA), is a privately held small business
located in the Sandia Science and Technology Park in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
ATA is a precision measurement, sensing and
controls company providing services and products to
government and commercial customers. ATA has
demonstrated a remarkable ability to transition
technology to operational use and commercial
products by leveraging internal and governmentfunded research and development.
ATA manufactures angular rate sensors, actuators,
and subsystems used in crash testing, aerospace
controls, platform stabilization, vibration and motion
measurement, inertial navigation, and line-of-sight
imaging systems. ATA products and services span
ground, air, and space applications. Small, lightweight, fast steering mirrors are ATA's latest product
line and can achieve sub-micro radian pointing
stability.
ACIMU
12-inch
7-inch
2-inch
1-inch
ATA has developed a complete line of fast steering
mirrors, bringing new meaning to the word “fast,” that
enable real time corrections in adaptive optics for directed
energy systems, long range dynamic laser
communications, and telescopes. Our FSMs can be
space-qualified. We offer designs using any mirror
technology from metal and glass to silicon carbide to meet
your specific program requirements. Mirror sizes range
from 1-inch high performance laser communications
mirrors to proven 5-inch 1 kHz designs to new 12-inch
custom designs operating at 1 kHz and higher for high
energy laser directed energy systems.
Inertial Reference Units
Rad-Hard IMU
HIMU
DoD space surveillance and weapons systems require
highly accurate inertial knowledge in absolute position and
orientation. ATA is addressing this need by developing a
Hybrid IMU to overcome the inherent drift associated with
all inertial measurement units. The joint inclusion of a
global positioning system (GPS) receiver to provide
positional (and velocity) aiding along with an autonomous
star tracker, which provides robust attitude aiding, makes
available the necessary information required for the autocorrecting capability. ATA is addressing the need for an IMU
tolerant of severe radiation environments that is reliable
over long operating missions by developing a modular
Radiation Hardened IMU (RHIMU).
MHD Angular Rate Sensors
The company was founded in 1975 and in 2009
employed 250.
ARS-14
MIRU-LC
MIRU II
aIRU
Optical IRUs are crucial to modern acquisition, tracking
and pointing (ATP) systems, and ATA has over 35 years
experience solving challenging ATP problems through
hardware and controls innovations. ATA’s unique
combination of practical experience and patented
component technologies are at the core of the best
performing family of optical IRUs in the world today. The
Magneto-Hydryrodynamic (MHD) IRU-Laser
Communication (MIRU-LC) is ATA’s latest IRU and stands
as our flagship IRU, incorporating the benefits of and
replacing the MIRU II, MIRU III, and Advanced IRU (aIRU).
MIRU-LC also includes several advancements and
features not included in previous models such as a space
qualifiable design and 3-axis sensing.
ARS-06 Triaxial
Dynapak-14
ATA is the industry leader in the design of rugged,
precision angular rate sensors. Used for everything from
crash and ejection testing, to precision platform
stabilization and line-of-sight imaging, our sensors are
available in both commercial and space-qualified
versions. Since 1984, our reputation has been built by
providing our customers with the finest angular rate
sensors available as well as providing applications and
long-term customer support. ATA’s designs have proven
superior on the ground, in the air, and in extended space
flight. We combine our patented MHD technology with the
finest machined components, rugged microelectronics,
durable plastics, and encapsulating resins to make
sensors that survive the harshest environments. Each
sensor is dynamically tested and calibrated to exacting
standards.
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