TEST PLANNING

APT brings extensive test range experience to the planning and conduct of missile flight testing. APT personnel have planned and conducted tests at all U.S. national ranges, especially Reagan Test Site (RTS) and White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), as well as several international ranges. At APT, missile flight tests are planned by combining knowledge of test requirements (which are documented through our systems analysis work) with constraints imposed by instrumentation and range safety. This planning approach ensures optimum testing.

APT capabilities in the area of flight test planning include Test Requirements Traceability, Test Program Feasibility, Trajectory/Scenario Development, and National Range Universal Documentation System (UDS) Document Development. Areas of range support are Preliminary Hazard Analysis/Risk Assessment, Collision Avoidance and Satellite Risk Assessment, Debris Catalog Development, Test Planning Documentation, Universal Documentation System, Instrumentation Planning, Data Collection, Safety Tracking, Safety Office Interface/Approvals, and Waiver Development/Coordination.

Accomplishments

Flowdown of GMD Flight Test Objectives through performance requirements to flight objectives
Traceability assessment of early GMD Flight Test Requirements to Tactical Requirements
Development of performance requirements documents and test documents
Cooperative development of 3-stage GBI trajectory from Meck Island
Feasibility evaluation of critical measurements counter measurements flight test scenarios
Planning and execution of MDA Ballistic Missile Defense System experiments and flight tests
Assessed risk of candidate scenarios from:
- Flight Termination
- Payload Malfunction
- Successful Intercept
- Collisions with Space Assets
- Orbital Debris

Range Users Supported

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense
Space and Missile Defense Command
THAAD
Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Interceptor
MLRS
Hera Target System
Anti-Satellite Systems
Spaceport Canada

Tom Webber 256.327.3405
twebber@apt-research.com
Mr. Webber currently serves as APT Division Manager for Flight Test Planning and Range Safety. Mr. Webber has over 20 years experience in the design, development, and test and evaluation of missiles and missile systems. He served as the Director of the USAKA/RTS Command Safety Directorate located at Kwajalein Atoll were he was the National Range Commander's top range safety technical expert, consultant, and principal advisor on range safety issues. Mr. Webber's experience includes an assignment as Test Director at the National Hover Test Facility, Edwards AFB CA. He holds a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from California State University and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology.

Capabilities

Systems Safety
Range Safety
Test Planning
Explosives Safety
Software System Safety
Industrial Engineering
Quality Engineering
Reliability Engineering
Software Development
Publications
Training
Systems Engineering