SciTec was founded in 1979 as a small, entrepreneurial company dedicated to excellence in a
diverse range of technical areas. SciTec’s expertise in phenomenological modeling, hardware
development, and field test support led to a decade of steady corporate growth.
In 1989,
SciTec was acquired by TRW for its unique
contributions in a variety of technical areas. In 2002, TRW was aquired by Northrop Grumman and in 2003, SciTec became its own independant, small company again. |
| From its inception, SciTec has stood out from its competitors by having strengths in the interrelated areas of modeling, custom instrument design, and field testing. These three areas are referred to as the SciTec Triad because they form the foundation of SciTec’s system development. For example, SciTec develops physics models to predict the observables for particular measurement scenarios. These predictions are then used to design custom instruments which SciTec builds, calibrates, and deploys on field tests to collect data. SciTec analyzes the data, estimates measurement uncertainties, and then uses the data to validate the physics model and/or the sensor design. SciTec’s understanding of the instruments and data requirements for model validation lead to well-structured plans for testing, data analysis, and instrument calibration. SciTec’s customers appreciate our collective strengths and view us as an all-purpose technical support company. |
| SciTec’s greatest strength lies in the creativity, dedication and enthusiasm of its technical staff. SciTec has 30 technical employees of which 37% have PhDs and 20% have MS degrees. SciTec’s staff has a very broad disciplinary background including electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, chemistry, and physics. SciTec’s employees have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to take on new technical areas and quickly master them, leading to new core business areas with our customers. |
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SciTec is located in Princeton, NJ. Our facility consists of offices, conference rooms, computing resources, and laboratories. |
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SciTec's laboratory facilities have been designed to support both hardware development and field testing. The facility consists of 6700 square feet of laboratories, system assembly areas, and a machine shop. The recently redesigned optics laboratory provides an optical path of 125 feet inside the building. SciTec has a large investment in capital equipment for instrument fabrication, laboratory testing, calibration, and field testing.
SciTec also has capital equipment to support calibration and testing both in the lab and in the field. Electro-optic calibration sources include a number of standard lamps and thermal sources covering the UV through LWIR. In addition, SciTec owns a number of lasers suitable for both laboratory and field use. SciTec’s testing facilities include an environmental chamber which is used to measure the impact of temperature and humidity on instrument performance. SciTec boasts an impressive list of field test equipment. Sensors used to support radiometric collections include UV, IR, and visible cameras, and a variety of radiometers. Data acquisition and additional general test support equipment includes frame grabbers, stand-alone data loggers, IRIG and GPS clocks, video inserters, counters, field computers, tripods, environmental enclosures, an ozone meter, and meterological equipment. |
SciTec has invested in a combination of high-performance workstations and state-of-the-art
computers to support technical work. Most of the technical staff have
Pentium II-based machines. In addition, SciTec has a 128Kbps dedicated internet connection
to support high-volume information retrieval needs.
To support in-house electronics
subassembly prototyping and PC card fabrication, the electronics
laboratory includes state-of-the-art benchtop test equipment, a surface mount soldering station, an
automated circuit board router, and an extensive inventory of electronic components and
integrated circuits, as well as a number of electronics CAD applications installed on SciTec's
computer network. The facilities allow for rapid design and prototyping of custom circuits.