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“Since the mid 80’s Monterey Technologies, Inc. has been supporting simulation-based research on Army helicopter crew station design issues for AMRDEC’s Aeroflightdynamics directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. Their work has been uniformly excellent. Two of their personnel received commendation awards for their outstanding work for us. Without question, MTI is a company we look to when facing technical barriers in human factors, and crew station design.”
“Monterey Technologies, Inc. is one of the most competent and professional companies I have had the pleasure to work with over my 37 year career. Their knowledge of human behavior in complex military systems is complementary to our simulation and modeling efforts. Dr. Hennessy’s technical reputation is nationally recognized and this knowledge directly reflects upon the outstanding technical staff he has developed. His Management Controls are superb. I look forward to working with them on the many forthcoming opportunities to provide support for our national defense and homeland security needs.”
“I have known Bob Hennessy for over twenty years. Monterey Technologies, Inc. is one of the best human factors companies around. They are currently helping us develop new approaches to aerial gunnery training and I am more than pleased with their work.”
“MTI has a sterling reputation in the human factors community for careful, high quality analyses and good value for cost. I have personally known MTI staff and about their human factors work for more than fifteen years. They always deliver a high quality product. They helped the Air Force establish the Crew System Ergonomics Information Analysis Center (CSERIAC) and recently delivered a human factors test bed for a satellite controller's workstation.”
"Monterey Technologies, Inc. has been one of my most valuable contractors for over ten years. Their work in support of the Army's Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA) simulation testing was particularly important. Their crew station design and evaluation work is first-rate. I have no problem recommending MTI to anyone who needs human factors and simulation expertise."
“The work that Monterey Technologies, Inc. team is doing for the Commonwealth of Australia developing complex mission scenarios for training our Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control mission crews is outstanding. You are our only contractor on the project who delivers more than we expect, - ahead of schedule!”
“the quality of work MTI provides to the RPT is consistently outstanding. The company obviously hand-picks it’s employees. I have never seen such a consistently excellent performance from contractors or Government organizations. We couldn’t get this job done without the support from MTI”
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Goverment Projects
Learn more about how MTI has provided supported Goverments
MTI has successfully completed numerous projects for Government agencies other than Department of Defense. Our work has supported:
Our Government projects typically fall into two distinct, but related areas:
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Human Factors support for Product Development
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Human Factors analysis for Process Improvement
Below are a couple of examples of Government projects
FAA Human Factors Support MTI has completed multiple projects for the FAA. A recent project developed a Human Factors Evaluation Guide for aircraft multi-function displays. The FAA has a group of inspectors assigned the responsibility for evaluating new avionics systems. A specific system is the flat panel multi-function display (MFD) that is being used increasingly in aircraft cockpits. The FAA determined that their inspectors had no methodical, quantitative approach for evaluating an MFD for human factors and usability. MTI was contracted to develop a checklist-style human factors evaluation guide for MFD’s. Our human factors and SME’s (experienced pilots) collected data on the requirements, developed a preliminary guide, ran two rounds of usability testing with FAA avionics systems inspectors, refined the guide, based on the data gathered in the usability testing, and then tied every evaluation factor in the guide to the appropriate FAA regulation. The result was an official FAA publication (DOT/FAA/OAM-TM-03-01) that is now available to inspectors to assist them with MFD evaluations.
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NASA MTI conducted a Human Factors analysis for process improvement in a recent project completed for the NASA Ames Research Center to study the issue of flight delays due to aircraft taxi congestion at major commercial airports. MTI human factors experts conducted an evaluation process to develop a suite of cockpit displays for low-visibility surface operations. The system, called the Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-NASA) system, is comprised of a head-up display that displays scene-linked route information, head-down electronic moving maps that displays route and traffic information, and directional auditory alerts and warnings. Iterative part-task simulations, two high-fidelity simulations, and a flight test at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport were conducted during the human-centered design and evaluation process that included over 300 commercial pilots. The field test results revealed that the T-NASA system increased taxi speeds by 16%, eliminated hold location errors, eliminated navigation errors, while improving communication efficiency, and situational awareness. The T-NASA display system was successfully transferred to commercial partners and it is expected that surface operations cockpit displays will be integrated into commercial aircraft to significantly improve ground operations efficiency.
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NASA Ames Task Order Contract MTI was awarded a 5-year ID/IQ Task Order contract from the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffitt Field, CA in April of 2007 as a prime contractor. MTI has 14 named subcontractors on the contract, including prime contractors such as SAIC, Wyle Laboratories, Northrop Grumman, and Battelle Memorial Laboratories. Key features of this Aeronautics-oriented R&D contract include rapid turnaround time on task orders, and reasonable pass through rates.
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Commonwealth of Australia MTI has been supporting the Commonwealth of Australia (CoA) since 1999 on the Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft program, as a part of the QinetiQ (formerly Ball Solutions Group) Independent Validation & Verification (IV&V) team. MTI has very successfully provided technical analysis, review, test support, and training system support services to the CoA for a variety of different areas that include:
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Contract Specification Review and Analysis
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Data Links Compatibility Analysis
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Mission Computing technical support
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Tactical Software review, analysis, and testing support
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Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Evaluation
- Mission Crew Training scenario development
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Mission Crew Training scenario support material development
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Contact us for more detailed information on the many Government projects MTI has completed.
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