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NTS Aerospace & Defense Newsletter

Welcome to the NTS Aerospace & Defense e-newsletter. We hope you find the information presented of value to you and your organization. Please feel free to contact us with topics you would like discussed in future editions. Email us at info@ntscorp.com, call 800.270.516 or visit the Contacts page on our website site for your local lab. While you're on the site, submit a  Request a Quote for your next program.

Engineering Services

Accelerating Your Time to Market

NTS constantly strives to provide our clients and partners like you with smart solutions to the tough challenges you face every day. Challenges such as:

    ▶ Shorter market windows that compress development cycles  

    ▶ Mandatory compliance with constantly changing local, national and international standards
    ▶ Ever-increasing demand to lower production costs
    ▶ A lack of internal technical and equipment resources

Did you know that NTS can help in areas such as:
    ▶ Design and Development Engineering
    ▶ Product Testing
    ▶ Standards Compliance
    ▶ Project Management
    ▶ Managed Services

Please feel free to contact us to discuss your current engineering challenges. Contact Brent Goodwin, Business Development Director for Aerospace at brent.goodwin@ntscorp.com or (714) 998-4351, or Jay Kerrigan, Business Development Vice President at jay.kerrigan@ntscorp.com or (650) 644-5274.

NTS is thrilled to announce the addition of Elliott Laboratories to our team! In business since 1979, Elliott operates two full-service EMC, Product Safety and Wireless testing facilities in Sunnyvale and Fremont, CA. The addition of these state-of-the-art labs to the NTS EMC network makes NTS the largest independent provider of EMC design, test and evaluation services in North America. NTS now boasts eight EMC locations coast-to-coast, as well as a ninth in Munich, Germany.

For more information on Elliott services, including EMCT, their acclaimed High Speed EMC Design Tutorial CD-ROM, please visit their website at www.elliottlabs.com.

Test Systems Solutions - A Specialized Engineering Service

One possible engineering service NTS can provide for you is our Test Systems Engineering expertise. We design and integrate test, measurement, automation, data acquisition and control systems utilizing diverse hardware platforms, operating systems, and instrumentation standards. Our dedicated staff of electrical and mechanical engineers, project managers, technicians, and National Instruments Certified Developers are well versed in designing, integrating and programming real world solutions for industrial applications for a diverse set of operating systems and standards. Our expertise includes:

Requirements Analysis & Development            Hardware Design
Software Design and Architecture                    Instrument Drivers
Test System Management (TestStand)            Software Development (LabVIEW)
Data Management & Analysis (DIAdem)          Enterprise Solutions
Fabrication                                                    Integration
Installation & Training                                     Maintenance & Support

Visit our website or contact a member of our TSE team at 505.345.9499 or via email to Tim Brooks at tim.brooks@ntscorp.com.

Boeing defines QMS Requirements for MRO Suppliers
On March 17^th of this year, The Boeing Company released a letter to their suppliers stating that they will include quality management system (QMS) compliance requirements related to FAA regulation 14CFR 145, aerospace standard AS/EN/JISQ 9100 and/or AS/EN 9110 on new Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) supplier contracts, as applicable.

Thus, when the above mentioned regulation and/or standard is a contractual requirement, Boeing will stipulate that the supplier achieve and maintain a certification from either the FAA and/or an accredited registrar NQA.  Any MRO suppliers with AS/EN 9110 requirements in their contract will be expected to select obtain accredited certification between by September 2009.

This move is a response to the need expressed by suppliers to eliminate redundant QMS assessments. A standardized assessment process will reduce redundancies and variations. As indicated by Boeing, the first step in the process is the selection of an accredited certification body (CB). Boeing will only recognize certification from accredited CB's such as NQA.

For more information or to discuss your registration needs, please contact Bob Parsons, Director of Aerospace Programs for NQA, USA. He can be contacted at rparsons@nqa-usa.com or by calling the NQA, USA headquarters at  800-649-5289. NQA, USA is a subsidiary of National Technical Systems. 

NTS will again be hosting ERI's Wayne Tustin for his Fundamentals of Random Vibration and Shock Testing, HALT, ESS, HASS, Measurements Analysis and Calibration course on October 6-8 in Boxborough, MA. More details are at www.equipment-reliability.com/course4.

Tinton Falls, NJ Open House - July 23, 2008

Santa Clarita, CA Open House - October 24, 2008