R & D History

Lew Aerospace, Inc.

Lew Aerospace’s manufacturing facility is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lew Aerospace also maintains a business office location at 1930 Village Center Circle #3-891, Las Vegas, NV 89134-6245. In addition to the Lew Aerospace’s Inventus™ family of scalable, high-performance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) / Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs), Lew Aerospace is a designer and manufacturer of advanced composite components for U.S. Department of Defense as well as commercial customers in the bicycle racing and motor sports market, using state-of-the-art CNC tooling as well as high-precision carbon composite tooling fabricated in-house. Lew Aerospace’s 12,000 square foot facility employs 20 to 60 full-time employees (contract dependent) who undergo approximately 500 hours each of annual in-house training to maintain their high-level of aptitude in advanced composite fabrication. CADD capabilities include seats to support Intergraph, AutoCAD, IGES Drawing, SolidWorks, 3D Studio, Metastream, STEP Drawing, Shape File Format, Scalable Vector Graphics Format, Drawing eXchange Format, ACIS, and Stereo Lithography. Lew Aerospace internally supports over 1,000 hours of flight-testing and component testing annually as well as maintaining a technical staff capable of supporting its customer base at U.S. Government Ranges in the CONUS.

Lew Aerospace’s Inventus™ UAVs/UASs have been the subject of rigorous flight-test programs, which have been developed in-house by utilizing and modifying the flight-testing protocols used in FAA flight certification of manned-aircraft. The Inventus™ platforms have been proven in professional flight-test experience, as well as in operations, and by their flight performance in the conduct of a variety of missions, utilizing a variety of sensor and payload systems. Our scalable Inventus ™ UAV offers solutions for rapid integration of multiple sensors in a flexible payload configuration. Our experience includes laboratory, field integration and flight-proven success of:

Short-Wave Infrared Sensors (SWIR)
Bio-Chemical Detectors (RAE)
Thermal Sensors (Microbolometers)
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)
Low Observable (LO): Audible, Infrared (IR) and Radar Cross-Section (RCS) Design
Short-Range Tactical and Stand-off Weapons

*Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT)
*Electronic Intelligence (ELINT)
*Hyper-Spectral Sensors (HS)
**Polarimetric Sensors (PI)

**Estimated completion date = Last quarter of 2006
*Estimated completion date = 2nd quarter 2007

Inventus™ UAVs have operated from the following U.S. Government and Military Ranges:

1) Nevada Test Site, Hazmat Spill Center, Frenchman Flats, Nevada
2) Nellis Range, Nevada
3) FBI Academy, Quantico, VA
4) White Sands Missile Range- 20 missions.
5) Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville Alabama- 12 missions
6) Bolling Air Force Base, District of Columbia
7) Ft. Bliss, El Paso, TX

Lew Aerospace, Inc. has conducted flight tests for U.S. Government organizations:

1) Department of Energy (DOE)
2) Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFRL, WPAFB)
3) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
4) Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
5) North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
6) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
7) National Security Agency (NSA)
8) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
9) U.S. Marine Corps (USMC)
10) Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
11) U.S. Air Force (USAF)
12) U.S. Army ( USA)
13) Joint Theater and Air Missile Defense Organization (JTAMDO)

Lew Aerospace, Inc. has conducted flight tests for US Non-Government organizations:

1) Institute for Defense Analysis, IDA
2) Nevada Power

Summary of Certain Selected Missions

1) Department of Energy (DOE)
[Period of Performance: July 2004]
a. Remote Sensing of Biological, Chemical & Nuclear Threats
b. Multiple Integration flights at Nevada Test Site, Hazmat Spill Center, Frenchman Flats, Nevada

2) Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFRL, WPAFB) —Fully Autonomous Operation with Man-in-Loop Option
[Period of Performance: February 2005]
a. Locations— Nevada -- multiple day collection
b. Targeting
c. Radar Data Collection

3) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-- Fully Autonomous Operation with Man-in-Loop Option
a. Single Platform (fully outfitted) with GCS
b. Locations
1. Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, NV
[Period of Performance: January 2004]

a) ISR of Las Vegas tourism/ entertainment corridor, Las Vegas Boulevard
b) ISR of Interstate I-15 near the southern end of the Las Vegas tourism/ entertainment corridor

2. FBI Academy, Quantico, VA
[Period of Performance: Dec 2004]

a) TEVOC track—ATC/De-conflict with and augment low altitude tactical rotor-wing in high-speed automobile pursuit & hostage recovery conditions.
b) TEVOC track—high speed vehicle ISR in heavy rain and thunderstorms
c) TEVOC track—high speed vehicle ISR in fair weather
d) TEVOC track—Launch and Recover in heavy rain and thunderstorms from small footprint (150 ft x 50 ft strip)

4) NORAD Tiger Team Demonstration— Fully Autonomous Operation with Man-in- Loop Option
[Period of Performance: April 2005]

a. Multiple Platforms (fully outfitted) with single GCS, Single Mission
b. Location- Nevada

1. ISR/SWARM Demonstration mission to simultaneously operate/ interoperate 3 UAV platforms simultaneously in common airspace, defined by:

1) Vertical separation (common geographical-position)
2) Geographical separation (common altitude)

5) Joint Theater and Air Missile Defense Organization (JTAMDO)/ 46th Test Wing, Eglin, AFB—Fully Autonomous Operation with Man-in-Loop Option
[Period of Performance: November 2004 to Present]

a. Multiple Platforms (fully outfitted) with multiple GCS
b. Locations
1. White Sands Missile Range- 20 missions (total)
a) Joint Exercise USAF, US Army

1- Multi-day missions at various altitudes and speeds in an effort to invade independent ground based standoff systems.

2- Telemetry was reported to GCS for the purpose of data collection and truth data collaboration
b) Test of “longer-range” telemetry C2 system to 22 mi LOS operation and 8 mi Blind catapult launch
2. Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville Alabama- 12 missions
3. National Capital Region
a) National Capital Region (4 mission), undisclosed
b) Army-Navy Golf Course (8 missions), over flew urban and suburban surrounding locales
c) Bolling Air Force Base (3 missions)
4. U.S. Government Anechoic Chambers

Integration Projects

1) Short-Range Tactical and Stand-off Weapon
a. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD)
b. Low Observable (LO) Radar Cross-Section (RCS) Design

2) Signal Intelligence (SIGINT)
a. Northrop-Grumman Corporation
b. Monobit (AFRL)

3) MiniSAR
a. UAV Battlelab, Creech AFB

4) Advanced Concept Demonstrator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (ACDUAV)
a. Orbital Research Inc.

5) Generation One Flight Research Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (GEN1-FRUAV)
a. Orbital Research Inc.

6) Near Space Communications System Return Vehicle
a. IRAD

7) Law Enforcement Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (STUAV) System
a. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
b. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD)

8) Radar Targeting and Tracking
a. Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Organization (JTAMDO)
b. 46th TW, Eglin AFB
c. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
d. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
e. Bolling AFB

9) High Altitude Long Endurance m
a. IRAD

10) Remote Sensing
a. Biological, Chemical, Nuclear
b. Thermal, Short Wave Infrared
c. Department of Energy (DOE)