Mission Systems Flight Testing

Test Your Mission Systems in our Airborne Laboratory

Calspan Flight Research offers several unique aerial platforms that are pivotal tools in the advancement of Mission Systems development. Using our Airborne Testbeds and In-Flight Simulator aircraft, our customers have been able to validate their mission system architectures, communication interfaces, and flight path algorithms in real-world flight tests, directing true-to-life aircraft alongside virtual agents on a simulated battlefield. This approach helps reduce the cost of test and verification by providing a lab-like setting for flight test engineers to catch and fix bugs post-flight, putting hardware through its paces with real-world latencies and environmental effects, and avoiding tests with expensive military assets before critical software and algorithms have reached maturity. The inclusion of your systems' ground station on-site here at our base in Niagara Falls can provide a centralized location for fleet command, data acquisition, and mission simulation.