The Department of the Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Patuxent Rive, has a requirement for range operations and maintenance support services.

The Air Vehicle Modification and Instrumentation (AVMI) Department within Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) designs, develops, procures, builds, installs, tests and evaluates, calibrates, modifies, operates and maintains instrumentation on aircraft and uninstalled engines for the Navy and other Government, commercial and foreign Government customers. AVMI is the lead for developing future network-based instrumentation data acquisition systems and provides technical consultation to NAVAIR, Department of Defense (DoD) and other Government agencies. AVMI performs engineering design, technology investigations, and responsive development to support RDT&E (Research Development Test & Evaluation) and fleet requirements for instrumentation.

AVMI is responsible for performing electrical and mechanical modifications to test vehicles to support test and evaluation. A major aspect of this responsibility is the design, development, procurement, fabrication, installation, test, evaluation, configuration, operation and maintenance of special flight test instrumentation for flight test aircraft, weapons under test, and aircraft engines undergoing uninstalled tests. AVMI has a historically consistent and ongoing scheduled workload of test programs, modification efforts, and instrumentation work that demands a standing support team of engineers and technicians in order to meet critical flight test schedules and test milestones for the Program Managers Air (PMAs) that make up the core of the workload demand.

AVMI uses a variety of planning systems to accurately project workload in the near and long term, including the NAVAIR command staffing program, and the integrated master schedules of major customers. Government planning groups, daily and continuously, release workload into the shops and design groups, balancing the needs of the customers with the capacity of the Department. Typically during any one day the planning departments are tracking over 200 separate work orders either in planning, in work, on hold, or pending.

The AVMI organization includes two divisions: Aircraft Instrumentation Division (AID) Code 5.2.9 located at Patuxent River, MD, and Airborne Instrumentation Systems (AISD) Code 5.2.J located at China Lake and Point Mugu, CA.

• AID is responsible for performing electrical and mechanical modifications to test vehicles to support test and evaluation. A major aspect of this responsibility is the design, development, procurement, fabrication, installation, test, evaluation, configuration, operation and maintenance of special flight test instrumentation for flight test aircraft, weapons under test, and aircraft engines undergoing uninstalled tests. AID Division Overview.
• The Aircraft Instrumentation Division (AID), located at Patuxent River MD, is a principle center of expertise in the development, installation, test, evaluation, calibration, operation, and maintenance of airborne and ground based data acquisition system hardware and software. The Aircraft Instrumentation Division performs electrical/electronic engineering, mechanical/structural engineering design analysis, electrical and mechanical fabrication and integration, and flight certification coordination in support of the installation of Test and Evaluation (T&E) data systems into aircraft. AID provides personnel, material, equipment, and other supplies and services necessary to support the Navy in the design, development, delivery, installation, and support of instrumentation and unique test and evaluation systems. Instrumentation includes providing support during initial instrumentation requests through the data validation, playback, and analysis.