Center Maintenance Operations and Engineering Contract (CMOE) - NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA

Sierra Lobo’s extensive wind tunnel test and operations experience is crucial to our support of the Center Maintenance Operations and Engineering (CMOE) Contract at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). Sierra Lobo is a part of an integrated Jacobs contract team, which provides operations, maintenance, engineering, and general support services for LaRC infrastructure and test facilities. We have been supporting LaRC test operations since 1999.

Research Facility Operations Include:

Operations Management
Test Engineering
Facility Systems Engineering
Digital Controls Engineering
Laser and Dynamic Data Support
Test Management
Test Article Integration
Technical Operations
Electrical System Support
Fluid Systems Support
Facility Safety
Wind Tunnel Model Structural Analysis
Facility Configuration Management
Facility and Test Documentation
Facility Coordination
Facility Scheduling and Integration

Instrument Services Include:

Institutional Standards, Calibration Procedures and Policies
Inspection, Measuring, and Test Equipment (IM&TE) Logistics, Maintenance and Repair
Industrial (Facility) Instrumentation

Examples of Some of the Testing Supported Include:

X-51 Scramjet Engine test at Mach 5
Supported Boeing investigations that resulted in the return to flight status of its Delta II Heavy launch vehicle
Supported many Ares I, Crew Exploration Vehicle and Launch Abort System tests for the Constellation Program
Tested research and development articles for HondaJet, Gulfstream and Boeing commercial aircraft
Tested rotorcraft for Sikorsky
Tested UAVs for various aerospace companies