Specialty Engineering Capability Areas

Specialty Engineering provides value-added services during equipment and system design. Ongoing investment in the development of skilled staff supported by state-of-the-art tools ensures that systems are designed to operate in battlefield conditions.

GD Canada's extensive experience integrating military platforms has resulted in a commitment to include Specialty Engineering expertise in all program phases.

Electromagnetic Effects and TEMPEST staff ensure that our systems and products will not be degraded by interference, and will not generate compromising emanations that could disclose national security information. The combination of tools, test facilities, and a large complement of certified engineers ensures that the expertise is available to solve even the most difficult problems.

Reliability & Maintainability & Testing (R&M&T) and Safety expertise has been developed by completing an array of successful programs. GD Canada's R&M&T and Safety experts ensure that new systems and products will achieve their customer's needs for reliability, maintainability, testability and safety.

A significant complement of Human Factors Engineers has been assembled to ensure that systems and products minimize negative impacts on human functioning, and optimize performance. These experts are key players on GD Canada programs because they are instrumental in ensuring that our systems optimize our customer's productivity.

Mechanical, Environmental, and MCAD design is fundamental to implementing systems that can work on the battlefield. Comprehensive design services supported by computer modelling tools and test facilities allow GD Canada to utilize COTS equipment when integrating systems meeting severe environmental requirements.

System Analysis & Modelling provides a view of the performance of our systems that is otherwise unattainable. It includes modelling, simulation and 3D visualization. GD Canada is committed to maintaining this capability as a fundamental tool at the disposal of its systems and equipment designers.

At GD Canada, Specialty Engineering experts are included in programs as part of cross-discipline integrated teams. They ensure that GD Canada systems are capable of operation in the real world, and that their underlying technology supports the needs of our customers.