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Aerospace, Defense, and Government Solutions

Reach New Heights with NI Testing Technology

When you’re working on mission-critical assets, quality and reliability are imperative. From early-stage research to the sustainment of long life-cycle programs, NI can help you address your most significant challenges across design, test, deployment, and maintenance.

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Aerospace, Defense, and Government Brochure

  • Mission-Critical Assets Demand a Proven Test Strategy

    For decades, NI has served as a trusted aerospace and defense advisor with a deep understanding of how to optimize test strategies to meet increasingly demanding technical and business requirements—and ultimately maximize mission readiness. We’ve helped engineers blaze new paths by providing the cost-effective tools and support necessary to develop, test, and maintain new technologies.

 

Risk Management

From better integrated test strategies to basing test systems on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, NI’s approach aims to mitigate your risk and improve mission readiness and meet compliance and certification requirements.

Reliability

Failure is not an option. We stake our reputation on ensuring you’re equipped with the right strategies for design, test, and sustainment to maximize quality and reliability.

Cost Reduction

With a more strategic approach to design and test that utilizes customizable COTS equipment, you can minimize the complete life-cycle costs of your program, simplify supply chains, and stay on schedule.

Improved Efficiency

By effectively managing test assets and harvesting insights from test data, NI can help your organization improve operational performance and gain a competitive edge.

Solutions

Key Areas of Expertise

  • Electrical and Mechanical Systems

    Modern aerospace and defense assets can contain up to hundreds of subsystems that must be tested and simulated to ensure reliable operation across all mission scenarios. Work with NI to ensure the successful integration of these subsystems.

  • Radar and Electronic Warfare

    Spectrum superiority is critical to mission success. Partner with NI to design, test, and deploy the latest capabilities in radar and EW systems, including cognitive algorithms, modern antenna architectures, and ultra-wideband technology.

  • Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance

    NI has solutions for designing, prototyping, and testing everything from cutting-edge communication and telemetry systems secured for electronic warfare to maintaining the mission readiness of legacy transponders.

  • Satellites and Launch Vehicles

    Connect multiple teams and validate a breadth of subsystems with a single test solution that accelerates development and validation time for satellites and launch vehicles.

  • Defense Aircraft

    Design and test numerous commercial and military aircraft systems, including those on rotary and fixed-wing platforms, with NI's customizable COTS technology.

  • Large-Scale Experimental Research

    Scientists need scalable, high-accuracy systems to conduct groundbreaking research. Leveraging customizable COTS technology enables organizations to build unique measurement and control systems that are highly available and cost effective.

Committed to Your Success

NI has served the aerospace and defense industry for decades with disruptive, PXI-based instrumentation and application software that reduces the overall cost and risk associated with the design, validation, test, and support of mission-critical programs.

85%

of world’s top A&D organizations use NI

20%

of revenue invested in internal R&D

1,400+

field and support engineers worldwide

Evolve Your Test Strategy

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View NI’s webinar series to discover how you can innovate faster with a system-based approach that adapts and responds to the evolving test needs of your organization.

Topics include:

  • SDR design
  • HIL test
  • Electromechanical systems test
  • RF system-level validation
  • Production test

Industry Trends

Moving Forward Together

Whether your organization is pursuing initiatives related to digital transformation, standardization, connectivity, spectrum dominance, or more, let’s work together to capitalize on industry trends and accomplish your objectives.

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Let's Talk Digital Transformation

A partnership with NI can help you leverage test and test data to increase your chances of digital transformation success.

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Collins Aerospace Saves Time and Money by Developing a Unified Test Architecture

Collins Aerospace needed to create a “cradle to grave” test architecture for electromechanical systems that was flexible enough for a wide range of aerospace controller and component tests across the product development cycle.
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Keep Pace with Standardization

Early standardizations focused on hardware abstraction, but modern technology is built on software. Test organizations must move to standardized methods of software development to remain competitive.

Customer Stories

A Trusted Global Partner

Putting our customers’ needs first and elevating the impact of their creativity and innovation is at the heart of how NI works. We’re proud to partner with the engineers and enterprises solving some of the world’s most complex challenges.

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NI systems allow us to stay on the aggressive timelines that we set for ourselves. It gives us the agility to innovate rapidly and adapt quickly.

Omar Mussa

Virgin Orbit

  • RFA is Revolutionizing Rocket Development Efficiency

    Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) used NI test tools to get results quickly adapt designs and hardware with agility and flexibility, enabling faster iterations and test loops.

  • Virgin Orbit Is Leading the Convergence of Design and Test

    Using NI products, Virgin Orbit created a full electronic and digital twin of its LauncherOne rocket in the factory to test the flight software and how its avionics hardware and launch operations systems interact in real time.

 

NI Services

We’re Here to Help

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Maximize productivity and reduce costs with NI services. As your trusted partner and expert connector, we’re here to help you Engineer Ambitiously™.