Participating Lab: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWC-AD)

MQ-25 System Test and Integration Laboratory

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Candidate will support

1.) Build out of MQ-25 Unmanned Carrier Aviation (UCA) System Test and Integration Laboratory (STIL) facility for Lead Systems Integration (LSI) evaluation as the Systems Integration Environment (SIE), UCA Mission Control Station (UMCS) Software Support Activity (SSA), and support of the Integration Test Team (ITT) Mission Planning, Mission Rehearsal, and troubleshooting of deficiencies found in flight

2.) Integration of aircraft avionics and mission systems along with ground control station with shipboard systems and 3.) Integration of C3 Beyond line of sight (BLOS) and Line of sight T&E capability.

Data Analytics, Infrastructure & Technology Advancement (DAiTA)

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Intern supports MFS Facility, which provides high-fidelity, hardware-in-the-loop flight simulation capabilities and expertise supporting research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) of Navy and Marine Corps aviation platforms. He/she will support MFS Live-Virtual-Constructive Simulation; Interoperability Testing, Avionics Software Development and Regression Testing, Flight Test Mission Rehearsal; Flying Qualities & Performance Evaluations, Human Factor Evaluations; Fully Mission Capable Simulation Cockpits; Mixed Reality; High Fidelity Simulators (F-18, V-22, JSF, CH-53E, etc.); Avionics / Software upgrades to fielded fleet trainers (MH-60, E-2C, AH-1W, CH-53, VH-60N, M*-8B/C MST & Triton MST) and visual model Development daily activities as required.

Next Generation Threat System

Research Opportunity Description:
Interns will support C++/python software development for the Modeling and Simulation Enterprise Applications software products including Next Generation Threat System (NGTS), Architecture Management Integration Environment (AMIE) and Analysis and Reporting Tool (ART) for ACETEF in support of Navy Modeling & Simulation needs.

Aircraft Instrumentation Prototyping, Instrumentation and Experimentation

Research Opportunity Description:
1) Support the design and integration of aircraft Instrumentation / data acquisition system

2) Provide Preflight / Post flight support for instrumented aircraft

3) Perform electrical / electronic engineering, engineering design analysis in support of the installation and integration of aircraft instrumentation system

4) Project Management

Corrosion and Coatings

Research Opportunity Description:
Work with the Corrosion Science and Coatings teams within the Materials Protection Technology Branch to collect data to show the impact of the severity of the environment on the degree of corrosion on representative aircraft samples, and the ability of different coating systems to protect against this corrosion.

Polymers & Composites

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Work with the Corrosion Science and Coatings teams within the Materials Protection Technology Branch to collect data to show the impact of the severity of the environment on the degree of corrosion on representative aircraft samples, and the ability of different coating systems to protect against this corrosion

Naval Electromagnetic Radiation Facility (NERF)

Research Opportunity Description:
NERF and MFS Facility that provides high fidelity, hardware-in-the-loop flight simulation capabilities and expertise supporting Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) of Navy and Marine Corps aviation platforms. He/she will support MFS Live-Virtual-Constructive Simulation; Interoperability Testing; Avionics Software Development and Regression Testing; Flight Test Mission Rehearsal; Flying Qualities & Performance Evaluations; Human Factor Evaluations; Fully Mission Capable Simulation Cockpits; Mixed Reality; High Fidelity Simulators (F-18, V-22, JSF, CH-53E, etc.); Avionics / Software upgrades to fielded fleet trainers (MH-60, E-2C, AH-1W CH-53, VH-60N, M*-8B/C MST & Triton MST) and visual model Development daily activities as required.

Applied Aerodynamics Branch (AB21100)

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Develop a VR capability to view the Ship Airwake Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solutions at Manned Flight Simulator. The objective is to develop a capability for users to view 3D, time-dependent ship airwake turbulence with VR technology as an integrated feature of the Manned Flight Simulator visual system infrastructure.

Data Analysis Software Development

Research Opportunity Description:
Join the Test and Evaluation Data Division (TEDD) team to design and implement data analysis tools that will empower flight test engineers in analyzing and interpreting flight data more efficiently. Our goal is to enhance the decision-making process during real-time test events and post-flight analysis by providing robust, user-friendly software solutions that streamline data processing, visualization, and reporting.

The project will include:
• Developing software that can ingest and process large datasets generated from flight test events, including telemetry data, sensor outputs, and performance metrics.
• Creating algorithms for real-time data analysis to identify trends, anomalies, and performance indicators.
• Implementing dynamic and interactive data visualization features that allow flight test engineers to easily interpret complex datasets and share insights with stakeholders.
• Investigating and developing AI/ML solutions to automate existing data analysis workflows and processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual intervention.

Acquisition Support; Supply Procurement Facilitation

Research Opportunity Description:
The Acquisition Support Division, Supply Procurement Support Branch, has a requirement for facilitation. This facilitation has multiple components where assistance is warranted. In some cases, there is an opportunity to perform market research and/or scoping of an acquisition path for a multiple-parts transaction. In other cases, there is an ability to interrogate a database for historic trends or commonly used vendors. Additionally, there are back-end transaction processing that have historically been paper-based transactions that have/should/could be migrated to more digital-friendly formats. And there remain legacy challenges in data formats, data processing, and systems seamlessly integrating while remaining in policy compliance. The anticipated outcome is the delivery of a set of pre/post-transaction process improvement recommendations related to supply procurement support digital migration and commensurate metric to detail the efficiency gain of each recommendation

AI algorithms, methods, and techniques

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Review Deep Learning for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Vision course materials; Develop at least one ML Algorithm applied to publicly available data set; Iteratively retrain to improve ML accuracy metrics; Support at least one Autonomy & AI research project; Tour at least one other NAWCAD lab at NAS Pax River; Develop and present final out brief highlighting internship achievements

Manned Flight Simulator (MFS)

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Intern supports MFS Facility (RDT&E) of Navy and Marine Corps aviation platforms. He/she will support MFS Live-Virtual-Constructive Simulation, Interoperability Testing, Avionics Software Development and Regression Testing, Flight Test Mission Rehearsal, Flying Qualities & Performance Evaluations, Human Factor Evaluations, Fully Mission Capable Simulation Cockpits, Mixed Reality; High-Fidelity Simulators (F-18, V-22, JSF, CH-53E, etc.); Avionics / Software upgrades to fielded fleet trainers (MH-60, E-2C, AH-1W CH-53, VH-60N, M*-8B/C MST & Triton MST) and visual model Development daily activities as required.

Atlantic Test Range (ATR)

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
1.) The Atlantic Test Range (ATR) Navy's principal Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), fleet support activity for Naval aircraft, engines, avionics, aircraft support systems and ship/shore air operations;

2.) ATR fully instrumented and integrated test ranges that provide full-service support for cradle-to-grave testing;

3.) The airspace and surface target areas used for test and evaluation of aircraft and for warfighter training missions;

4.) The Telemetry Data Center will provide real-time radio-link reception, translation, processing and display of test data using the Real-time Telemetry Processing System; and

5.) Integration of next generation Test Execution and Control technology

Avionics Engineering Department

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
1.) In Core Avionics they could assist with efforts in developing GPS advances for the Navy, while receiving and helping to further develop our Nav School training program, or they could assist with some of our Software Support Activities in the Multi-Use Laboratory Environment (MULE), which would require more of a programming background.

2.) In Radar and Antenna Systems, they could gain hands-on experience by supporting test activities at the Facility for Radar Aperture Measurements (FARM), or they could gain experience in various modeling capabilites in our RACEMM laboratory.

3.) In Electro-Optics they could gain research experience in the lab working on special mission sensors, or they could gain hands-on experience building fiber optic cables for key naval systems.

4.) In Electronic Warfare, they could gain experience on both the research and test sides of our organization, observing how we execute electronic protection and electronic attack measures in the Navy.

WOLF UX-24 Unmanned Autonomy Robotics Technology U.A.R.T

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Intern will support small Unmanned Air System (UAS) Hangar test and evaluation; system certification; systems improvement; systems engineering; systems development; software development and maintenance; test support; special purpose test fixture development; test bed support and development of technical documentation. Intern will also have the opportunity to fly small UAS.

Integrated Modeling Environment

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Tasks will be assigned and tracked via Jira.

Top level tasking includes:
1) Develop metrics relative to the digital ecosystem environment.
2) Document code.
3) Provide User/Developer Manual onto Confluence.
4) Provide exit brief of work, and feedback on the effort.

Naval Aviation Red Team

Research Opportunity Description:
Intern will support
1.) Naval Aviation Red Team Assessments;
2.) Document Cyber T&E requirements and develop use cases to support project to build integrated instrumentation for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing the test data across multiple layer/sources to understand the mission impacts in Cyber contested environment;
3.) Research Cyber situational awareness techniques and document findings
4.) Conduct Cyber Software T&E test and analyze results
5.) Analyze and visualize raw cyber data for situational awareness. Leverage Docker containers and modernized data science tools to conduct initial analytics testing and
6.) Develop software for Cyber Test and Evaluation in support of Naval Aviation.

Waveform Measurement System (WMS); Acoustic Transducer Engineering Facility (ATEF); Key Enablers and Sonobuoy Enhancements; Airborne Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP); Magnetics

Research Opportunity Description:
Project Topic: Waveform Measurement System (WMS)

Project Description: Expand the Waveform Measurement System’s (WMS’s) capability to provide a universal application to signals employed by other existing Anti-submarine Warfare (ASW) acoustic sensors. Develop software tools to incorporate the Airborne Low-Frequency Sonar helicopter-tethered sensor and future ASW acoustic sensors. Generate a test tool that can effectively and efficiently evaluate the capability of a wide range of ASW acoustic sensors.

- Project Topic: Acoustic Transducer Engineering Facility (ATEF)

- Project Description: Develop analytical methods and characterization techniques to validate textured piezoceramic material properties and their performance as underwater sources and receivers. Synthesize materials to create basic piezoceramics. Conduct test and analysis of piezoceramic samples. Perform in-air tests and characterizations using an anechoic chamber.

- Project Topic: Key Enablers and Sonobuoy Enhancements

- Project Description: Conduct research and development of new acoustic sensors, systems, and subsystems for naval air platforms to improve existing maritime patrol and reconnaissance mission systems. Assess and recommend alternate communications architectures, modulation schemes, and security protocols to improve link robustness and reliability.

- Project Topic: Airborne Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) - Project Description: Support software development on the P-8A acoustic software development environment (SDE) and the development of simulators and stimulators within the AASP. Perform software sustainment and quality assurance for systems employed for maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft.

- Project Topic: Magnetics

- Project Description: Support the basic and applied research of magnetics and magneto-hydrodynamics. Perform modeling and simulation of the magnetic phenomena underwater and across the air-water interface. Assess sensor performance for Naval Aviation platforms.

Systems Engineering Architecutre Networks

Research Opportunity Description:
RDT&E Network Engineering / RDT&E Software Defined Networking (SDN) Deployment; Multi-Tenant Networking Deployment; RDT&E Commercial Solutions for RDT&E Network Engineering / RDT&E Software Defined Networking (SDN) Deployment; Multi-Tenant Networking Deployment; RDT&E Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) & Hybrid Cloud Deployment

Command IT Storefront

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
The intern will support the NAWCAD Information Technology (IT) Storefront that serves our command workforce and their forward-deployed End-User IT assets. Intern communicates with their designated IT/NMCI POC and physically takes the broken NMCI asset directly to the IT Storefront. Exchanges and back online ‘real-time’ before leaving the storefront and returning NMCI assets. Support all / and other ongoing support of NMCI assets.