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SciTec's laboratory facilities have been designed to support
both hardware development and field testing. The facility consists of
over 7500 square feet of laboratories, system assembly areas, and a
machine shop. The recently redesigned optics
laboratory provides an optical path of 30 meters inside the building.
SciTec has a large investment in capital equipment for instrument
fabrication, laboratory testing, calibration, and field testing.
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.
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.
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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. Besides our headquarters in Princeton, NJ,
SciTec has offices in Ohio and seeks to expand into Colorado and
northern Virginia. 
