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The Raytheon/Thales facility in Fullerton, California is a joint venture between two of the leading defense contractors in the USA and France. Bridger Control Systems provided 100% of the facilities and environmental controls for the two primary support buildings. The new FLORAKO lab project was recently completed and is up and online to provide worldwide support and 100% link reliability around the world.
FLORAKO: Air Defence Ground Environment System
After more than thirty years of service, the FLORIDA Air Defence Ground Environment System used in Switzerland, and delivered in the late sixties by Hughes (today part of ThalesRaytheonSystems), is soon to be replaced by the FLORAKO system, also developed by TRS - evidence of continued relations based on mutual confidence.
FLORAKO is a fully distributed system whose main functions include
- Air surveillance with multi-sensor tracking (military and civil radars),
- Identification,
- Sensor management,
- Threat assessment,
- Air mission Command and Control,
- Joint civil-military airspace management.
The system integrates links with external agencies, such as the Air Traffic Management system of SKYGUIDE, also to be replaced in the next few years by the ATMAS system developed by Thales Air Traffic Management.
Additionally, Bridger Control Systems provides ongoing support and installation at the Raytheon North facilities in El Segundo, CA. Two primary systems at the development and support laboratories provide environmental and facilities support for the primary and secondary mechanical and electrical systems.
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The manufacturing facility in Torrance California requires strict environmental conditions for a high yield of product. These wave tubes go directly to satellite manufacturing firms for installation onto spacecraft.
Bridger Control Systems recently upgraded the building monitoring and control system to Broadwin V5 SCADA software. The front end CPU and associated perpipherals were also completely upgrade to provide the building engineers with the most modern and sophisticated technology available to assist in efficient and reliable plant operation.
Critical to a high yield production facility is the ability for the mechanical systems to maintain a clean production environment. We are currently in the process of retrofitting the air distribution system to upgrade the pressure control system throughout the facility. Additionally, new controls will be provided and factory installed to the HVAC equipment being custom fabricated for the wave tube assembly areas.
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Satellite Logistical Laboratory
BCS designed and installed Class 10,000 clean room SSL Lab DDC controls for process water, liquid nitrogen distribution along with stringent temperature,humidity and pressure envelope requirements.
Flush mounted touch screen wall mounted operator interface panels allow users to monitor and control space conditions without having to leave the clean environement inside the laboratory.
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Building 637A
F22 and Stealth Fighter Manufacturing Facilties
The Palmdale Skunkword facilitiy was originally built in 1989, in 2003 it is undergoing a major renovation to help support the joint strike fighter production.
 Process Controls: Over 30 fabrication tanks filled with a variety of chemical treatment and process liquids for metal production. All mixtures controlled to exacting specifications. The Process Control System also measures and maintains highly accurate pressure envelopes between the production and painting areas, keeping caustic fumes away from human contact while providing laminar air flows across the manufactured airfoil surfaces to ensure the material applications to the flight hardware is applied according to the highly demanding production specifications.
Environmental Controls: Class 10,000 clean rooms, Temperature controls to +/- .5 degrees F. Humidity controls to +/- 5% RH. Strict monitoring of building envelopes and exhausts to keep the buildings reputation as the worlds first completely pollution free facility intact. 
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Boeing Satellite Systems - Satellite and Spacecraft Manufacturing Facility
The El Segundo facility consists of over 1,000,000 square feet of manufacturing, testing and support buildings.
Process Controls: Process controls for delivery and monitoring of liquid nitrogen and high temperature heating for satellite testing and manufacturing. Specialized controls for Helium compressors to deliver exact quantities of test gases.
Environmental Controls: Class 10,000 clean rooms, Temperature controls to +/- .5 degrees F. Humidity controls to +/- 5% RH. Strict velocity and pressure regulation between building envelopes required for high product yield.
Fabrication Controls: Building and manufacturing separation via complete automation of overhead door and egress points. Compressed air delivery and production system monitoring systems. Over 10,000 tons of chiller capacity for multiple fabrication and office facilities. 24/7 alarm notification for equipment or conditions failure. Boeing's Satellite Development Center is the world's leading manufacturer of geostationary satellites. The factory, headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., is a unit of Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems. Boeing manufactures the body-stabilized Boeing 601 satellite and the body-stabilized Boeing 702, the world's most powerful communications satellite, two lines of satellites designed to support mobile communications, and a series of global positioning satellites and military communications satellites. At any given time more than a dozen of these powerful spacecraft are in varying stages of production.
Inside the fabrication facilities the lab personnel can monitor and modify environment conditions without ever having to leave the clean room envelope. Bridger Control Systems designed, manufactured and installed these custom made user interface panels. The touch screen GUI interface hardware and software panels were fabricated at our production facilities and the sequence of operations were 100% before installation to insure strict adherence to the laboratory specification requirements.
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