September 2009

R. A. Wood Associates has been awarded a contract from Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Crane Division. The contract involves designing and delivering an automated test rack consisting of:

• A 40U rack with rack mount PC, work table, LCD monitor, GPIB controller cards,
• A state of the art Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) with 10 port extension
• A PXI chassis with PXI cards providing thermocouple temperature measurement, serial ports, 2 X 96 digital I/O signals
• A custom designed RF Load Box for testing up to eight transmitter/receiver modules, capable of providing 50 Watts of RF power
• Custom designed software for controlling the Load Box and the VNA equipment

We are fortunate to be able to work with Viewpoint Systems on this contract.

This contract was won on a competitive bid, and our solution was selected out of many other submissions. We are very excited about the opportunity to work with NSWC Crane Division!