NAVAL Air Warfare Center AD (LKE) has awarded a new SBIR Phase I contract to IAI (Intelligent Automation, Inc.) and CALCE, the subcontractor, for the proposal entitled "Enhanced Prognostic Model for Digital Electronics." The IAI/CALCE team will develop prognostic based methodologies to predict failures in aircraft electronic boards, their digital component elements and devices that have the potential to reduce the risks of unanticipated failures, while significantly reducing support costs. This approach will incorporate life consumption monitoring, including failure nodes and mechanism analysis, sensor data pre-processing/feature selection, fault detection/identification/isolation, virtual reality assessment, stress and damage accumulation analysis, and remaining life estimation.

For more information contact, Prof. Michael Pecht at 301-405-5323, pecht@calce.umd.edu.