Service Experience

WILLCOR’s goal since company start up is to provide our customers a single source company that can resolve complex engineering problems quickly and efficiently. Most of WILLCOR’s employees have more than 10 years of legacy experience supporting our customers in the areas of Systems Engineering, Technical Risk Management, Transition from S&T to Production, Manufacturability, Producibility, and Program Management. Our client base includes Government, public and private sector customers. A partial list of customers includes: the U. S. Department of Defense, the U. S. Department of Homeland Security, the Missile defense Agency, the Department of the Navy, NAVAIR and NAVSEA.

Over the past several years, WILLCOR personnel have taken no less than three major military systems that were failing during operational testing and moved them into production. At times, WILLCOR has been called the “Process Police” because of its keen focus on design and production processes. The company supports all aspects of the design and production processes, but does not actually produce hardware. WILLCOR supports numerous mission assurance and quality assurance tasks for the Missile Defense Agency. WILLCOR has a premier virtual office capability and can deploy this portal/virtual office suite in support of the team or its client. WILLCOR is currently working on many tasks in the area of Tin Whisker mitigation, Ball Grid Array (BGA) inspection techniques, and embedded die technology eliminating solder from printed circuit board manufacturing.

In addition to being able to provide support in risk management, failure analysis and Mission Assurance, including pedigree development, fault tree analysis, etc., WILLCOR can establish a portal and a set of virtual offices for its IPT teams to support all aspects of acquisition.

WILLCOR has performed numerous on-site factory and facility and has documented more than 5,000 best practices to date (see www.bmpcoe.org for details). Through this survey process, WILLCOR personnel have experience with more production facilities worldwide than any other organization of which we are aware. This experience will be useful to a client as WILLCOR will draw from the experiences of the best in support of project requirements. WILLCOR also has extensive contacts throughout the U. S. and European industrial bases, bringing leading experts to bear on problems as needed.

WILLCOR has a proven process for identifying, analyzing, and effecting change. WILLCOR has taught risk management in the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) and this process is in line with DoD’s risk management philosophy, MRLs, and EMRLs. At the heart of this philosophy is the Technical Risk Identification & Mitigation System (TRIMS). Risk management is a core item of WILLCOR’s Systems Engineering & Integration capabilities and expertise. WILLCOR personnel have been conducting risk identification and mitigation for Military and aerospace systems since 1990 and have developed and supported the creation of numerous handbooks and guidance documents. These documents and our expertise, range from the development of a complete systems engineering model based on best practices, to topics such as ESS, TAAF, sneak circuit analysis, and many others.

Another value added capability that WILLCOR brings to a client is in the area of Science & Technology (S&T) to Production. We developed the SPRAT toolset used by ONR to formalize the selection and approval process of S&T projects for accelerated transition to development. Development followed research and data review of nearly 100 projects to best weight and prioritize decision criteria. The next step of the process is to understand what programs are valid candidates for an S&T to Production process. Part of this process is the development of an expert system, known as SPEC-RITE, to help with the development of performance-based specifications for systems development.

Our staff has participated in the development and application of Embedded Die Technology from conceptual approval to industry development and actual weapon application within 36 months. We have conducted reviews of MDA projects for interest in applying Embedded Die Technology capability.