Spiral Technology | Engineering and telemetry for the nation’s test ranges

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A telemetry tracking antenna on the dry lakebed at dusk, turning to follow a test aircraft

OTIS Control · AGC reportSample data

IRIG time · UTC---:--:--:--.---

Elevation4.00deg

Azimuth236.07deg

AGC · RX 1-78.0dBm

AGC · RX 2-80.4dBm

CombinerRX 1best

Bit syncLOCK

A test flight on the range, seen from the ground station. OTIS Control sets up the receivers and antenna controller, then logs azimuth, elevation and AGC for the whole mission.

: How OTIS works

Supporting test and evaluation programs at

Contract vehicles

GSA OASIS Small business team of three, government-wide professional services :SeaPort NxG Subcontractor to AS&M for Navy engineering and technical support :J-TECH II AECOM/JT4 team, operations and sustainment for the western test and training ranges :TRAX International Mission Test Support Services team, Yuma and Fort Greely :GSA OASIS Small business team of three, government-wide professional services :SeaPort NxG Subcontractor to AS&M for Navy engineering and technical support :J-TECH II AECOM/JT4 team, operations and sustainment for the western test and training ranges :TRAX International Mission Test Support Services team, Yuma and Fort Greely :

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Supporting the aerospace community since the X-15 days.

Spiral puts hands-on engineers on the nation’s test ranges for research and development and for developmental and operational test and evaluation. Our work spans platforms from small unpiloted air systems to supersonic fleet platforms, and our OTIS software is in use at most of the major ranges and test facilities.

: About Spiral

Spiral

Range / test centerSite

Air Force Test CenterEdwards AFB, CA

Air Force Test CenterEglin AFB, FL

NAWC Weapons DivisionChina Lake, CA

NAWC Aircraft DivisionPatuxent River, MD

NASA ArmstrongEdwards, CA

White Sands Missile RangeNM

Yuma Proving GroundAZ

Systems engineering, R&D and test & evaluation services, on site with the test team.

: Our engineering services

For test ranges

OTIS

IRIG 106 Chapter 9 TMATS software that sets up, translates, controls and displays telemetry.

: The OTIS family

For telemetry

What we do

Engineering services for the national test ranges, the OTIS software range engineers use to set up and watch their telemetry, and LEAPS, the aerial surveillance system we designed for our home town.

The open avionics bay of a test aircraft with its data acquisition unit installed

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Flight test engineering

Flight controls, flight systems and instrumentation engineers on the test team, from planning through execution. Our expertise spans small unpiloted air systems to supersonic fleet platforms.

Flight Controls Engineering
Flight Systems Engineering
Instrumentation Engineering
Modeling & Simulation
Life Cycle Systems Engineering
Program Development / Planning
Program Execution / Management

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A range telemetry room with racks of receivers and combiners

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Range systems & instrumentation

Engineering, operations and maintenance for the systems that track the test item and collect its data: antennas, RF, facilities and the networks behind them.

Range Systems Engineering / O&M
RF Engineering / Testing
EMC / EMI Testing
T&E Facility Design / Implementation
T&E Disciplinary Training
Secure Facilities Design and Verification
Information Technology Services

: Talk about your range

A range ground station console room with OTIS Display running on its monitors

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OTIS telemetry software

The only complete family of software built around the IRIG 106 Chapter 9 TMATS standard. One TMATS file sets up every vendor’s equipment on the range, and the data shows up on screen as it arrives. In use at most of the major ranges and test facilities, and with customers in Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom.

OTIS-9 TMATS editor
Translators & Bridges
OTIS Update
OTIS Control
OTIS Display
Developed and maintained in the USA, TAA compliant

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A Cessna 172 with a sensor turret flying over a desert town grid at dusk

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LEAPS aerial surveillance

The Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System, designed and integrated by Spiral. It pairs airborne sensors with ground-based instrumentation, manned or unmanned, for law enforcement and disaster response. LEAPS began daily surveillance flights from Fox Field for the LA County Sheriff’s Lancaster Station in August 2012.

Airborne sensors
Ground-based instrumentation
Manned or unmanned
Law enforcement and disaster response

: About LEAPS

From TMATS file to live display.

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01_Setup :

One TMATS file describes the whole test.

OTIS-9 opens any IRIG 106 Chapter 9 file as plain forms and graphics, checks every link between sections, and saves a valid TMATS file. Reports cover measurement lists, major frames and PCM formats, with calibration curve fitting built in.

02_Translate :

Every vendor’s ground station, from the same file.

Translators turn TMATS into each vendor’s setup format. Bridges bring vendor setups back into TMATS and keep vendor-only commands in comment fields, so the file stays 100% compliant. True vendor independence.

03_Control :

Receivers, combiners and antennas set up with one command.

OTIS Control sets up, monitors and logs receivers, combiners, bit syncs, recorders and antenna controllers, and writes a time-tagged AGC report of azimuth, elevation and AGC for every mission. TENA supported.

04_Display :

See the data as it arrives.

Time history, XY plot, fixed and scrolling tabular, bar graphs and meters, grouped into saved display setups you can recall for the next mission.

Who we are

Spiral started as a one-person operation inside SPARTA, Inc.’s Aerospace Systems Division, grew into its Technical Services Operation, and incorporated in 2000. On 1 January 2007 our employee-owners bought SPARTA’s interest. Today we are an independent, veteran-owned small business in the Antelope Valley.

: About Spiral

Employee-ownedsince 1 January 2007
Veteran-ownedsmall business, incorporated 2000
100+ employeesheadquartered in Lancaster, California
R&D 100 CompanyR&D Magazine
California Innovation All StarCalifornia Commission for Job and Economic Growth
ITEA corporate memberand active supporter of the RCC Inter-Range Instrumentation Group