CALABASAS, Calif. and
BOXBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- National
Technical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of
testing and engineering services, announced today that it has
expanded its ordnance safety testing capabilities to include Hazard
of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO). HERO testing
is now a featured capability at NTS' Boxborough facility.
NTS Boxborough is fully
equipped to HERO test the Electro-Explosive Devices (EED) in
ammunition and ordnance. EEDs are mission critical components
in many of the bombs, missiles, munitions, and ammunition carried
on and fired from airborne, sea, space, ground or personal weapon
systems. Comprehensive testing to Electromagnetic Radiation
(EMR) environments is required by the U.S. Department of Defense
for successful development and qualification of explosive
initiation components.
The primary approach to conducting a HERO evaluation is to
monitor the current induced response of an EED when exposed to high
levels of EMR to determine that the required safety and/or
reliability margins are met. Electrical hazards inherently
exist in these devices because of fundamental susceptibilities in
the firing circuits contained within the EEDs; safety hazards
produced by the multitude of electromagnetic environments they
encounter during their transport, storage, and deployment.
NTS works closely with its Department of Defense (DOD) and
commercial defense customers to identify and produce the correct
EMR testing environment and monitoring methods to ensure each
unique EED device meets the specified HERO testing
requirements.
"HERO testing is a niche market, but a very important market for
us and for our customers that manufacture ordnances for the
Department of Defense and our armed forces," said Jeffrey Viel, Regional Director, EMI Engineering
Services for NTS. "At the most basic level, we can test almost any
ordnance item's electronic initiation device to prove it is safe
for HERO and won't detonate (or dud) when exposed to
electromagnetic radiation while being stored, transported or being
readied for deployment. We believe we can perform these
comprehensive tests faster and more cost effectively than any other
testing facility."
HERO testing at the NTS Boxborough facility, which is equipped
to handle Class 1.4 explosives, compliments the more comprehensive
ordnance and explosives testing done at NTS Camden Operations in
Arkansas
(http://www.nts.com/locations/camden). The NTS Camden
facility is widely recognized as a leading commercial ordnance test
and proving ground, providing AA&E engineering services and
infrastructure for characterizing, testing, and documenting the
performance of weapons, ammunition, munitions, and energetic
systems and components to DOD and government standards and
specifications.
About NTS Boxborough
The NTS Boxborough, MA location is a full service
engineering and testing facility, capable of managing complex
aerospace, defense, telecommunications or commercial programs.
Extensive climatic and environmental test capabilities are
available, as well as custom test set ups for hydraulic testing and
FAA fire testing. Environmental testing disciplines include:
independent and combined thermal, humidity and altitude, salt fog,
wind driven rain, fire, icing, thermal vacuum and explosive
atmosphere. Its large scale dynamics laboratory includes seven
electro-dynamic vibration systems, shock towers and seismic systems
including independent triaxial, acceleration, shock, static and
dynamic loading measurement capabilities. EMI/EMC testing
capabilities include radiated susceptibility, radiated emissions,
magnetic emissions, conducted immunity, harmonics analysis,
electrical power characteristics, airborne and structure borne
noise, AC power cross and power fault, and lightning simulation
indirect effects, and Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) up to 25kV.
Military and aerospace capabilities include Immunity testing up to
200v/m from 10kHz to 40GHz, as well as Electrical Power
Characteristics testing for ground, aircraft, shipboard, and
submarine applications.
About National Technical Systems
National Technical
Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of engineering services to the
aerospace, defense, telecommunications, automotive and high
technology markets. Through a world-wide network of resources, NTS
provides full product life-cycle support, offering world class
design engineering, compliance, testing, certification, quality
registration and program management. For additional information
about NTS, visit the Company's website at www.nts.com or call
800-270-2516.
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the occurrence of unanticipated events.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding
National Technical Systems' business which are not historical facts
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uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties,
which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in
the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's
Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal
year.
Contact: Allen
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National Technical
Systems
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Jill Bertotti
(investors)
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Aaron Cohen
(corporate)
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jill@allencaron.com
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aaron.cohen@nts.com
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Len Hall
(media)
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(818)
591-0776
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Len@allencaron.com
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Dwight Moore
(technical)
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(949)
474-4300
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dwight.moore@nts.com
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(978) 263-2933, Ext.
273
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SOURCE National Technical Systems, Inc.