In 2005, STC was awarded the Electronic Fabrication Support (EFS) contract by LaRC which required ISO registration within 9 months of award. Because our systems were already compliant to the 1994 standard, updating to the 2000 standard and full registration was accomplished 3 months early with STC passing it’s August 2005 audit with no minor or major findings, a first for our auditor. STC already supports two contracts that are CMMI level 3 compliant, including our support to moving the NASA Simulation And Flight Technical Services (SAFTS) contract to level 3 compliance at LaRC, and we are working toward corporate certification of level 2 currently.

For the U.S. Air Force STC-METSAT has produced a unique cloud database under the Climatological and Historical ANalysis of Clouds for Environmental Simulations (CHANCES) Project. STC-METSAT processed imagery from eight current operational meteorological satellite platforms. Due to the number of user groups, STC-METSAT has been asked to process additional years of CHANCES data.

STC has analyzed and archived data from a series of wake vortex experiments conducted at NASA Langley Research Center. Data analyzed included both aircraft data (GPS, etc.)and ground-based lidar data of wake vortices generated by a Boeing 737 aircraft. This data is useful for and is now available as input to models of aircraft wake vortices.

For over 18 years STC personnel have written numerous smoke and obscurants models for the U.S. Army and Air Force. These models have included transport and diffusion, radiative transfer, and directed energy alogrithm. Monte Carlo techniques have been used in radiative transfer and directed energy interaction models

For the U.S. Army, Dugway Proving Ground, STC developed an automated image processing system (TRACE) to extract aerosol cloud boundaries from visible and infrared video images. Processing and analysis software as well as a GUI interface were developed for the TRACE system.

STC supported NASA's SAGE II and SAGE III programs. This included the analysis of SAGE II cloud and aerosol data to produce global climatologies and the study of long-term behavior. We also assisted in the preparation for the SAGE III launch by participating in the production of algorithms, the planning of validation experiments, and the design and operation of groundbased and airborne research equipment.

STC-METSAT is producing a comprehensive and accurate global water vapor dataset, NVAP, which is critical to the adequate understanding of water vapor's role in the earth's climate system. We blend radiosonde and satellite infrared and satellite microwave retrievals using physically based algorithms.

STC, as a subcontractor to Raytheon Systems Company, supported U.S. Air Force Range Standardization and Automation. STC's expert knowledge of weather instrumentation and models is used in trade studies, environmental testing, prototyping, development of data collection and quality control software, instrument installation, toxic hazard prediction model evaluation, and GIS visualization display tasks.