Northrop Grumman (Norway)

Recovery in co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders often involves relationships with professional helpers, yet little is known about how these are experienced by service users. The aim of this study was to explore and describe behaviour and attributes of professional helpers that support recovery, as experienced by persons with co-occurring disorders. Within a collaborative approach, in-depth individual interviews with eight persons with lived experience of co-occurring disorders were analysed using systematic text condensation. The analysis yielded four categories of recovery-supporting behaviour and attributes of professional helpers and the ability to build trust cuts across all of them: Building trust through (a) hopefulness and loving concern, (b) commitment, (c) direct honesty and expectation and (d) action and courage. Services should allow for flexibility and continuity, and training should recognise the importance of establishing trust in order to reach out to this group.

Finite element models were developed for transient thermal tensioning of complex thin steel panels for specific test panel designs and for representative production panels both composed of inserts, transition thicknesses, and penetrations.

At Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, a prototype transient thermal tensioning system was installed and successfully demonstrated on a complex test panel design from the Shipboard Applications of Lightweight Structures program.

The Office of Naval Research recognizing the importance of education, specifically science and mathematics, embarked nearly a decade ago on their National Naval Responsibility for Naval Engineering program. Since then, academia, industry, and SNAME have increased their individual and collaborative efforts towards reaching out to students in an effort to share the excitement and opportunities available within the marine industry. Recently, in this vein, the Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Apprentice School Chapter of the Hampton Roads SNAME chapter held a “Boat Design Competition” exposing over 240 high school students from 10 school districts (30 teams from 18 different high schools) to the excitement and knowledge needed to prepare design, construction and engineering packages using guidelines, lectures, and tutorial videos prepared by Apprentices and veteran Naval Architects. This was the first time high school students had the opportunity to compete in a head-to-head competition to design, construct, and operate the best boat relative to a number of prescribed requirements. The program also served to educate Apprentices in leadership, project management, research methods, brainstorming, naval architecture and systems engineering as well as establish a nurturing relationship between student chapter and veteran SNAME members which continues today.

By combining the information provided by ground radar tracking, multilateration, ADS-B, vehicle tracking, embedded loop sensors, flight information data, ASR, and other air traffic management systems comprehensive data base, information will be making decisions with the same data. Thus, sensor fusion supports the long-term goals of an integrated air space management system in a collaborative decision making environment. This paper discusses the current state and practical application of sensor data fusion for airport surface management and safety systems. It also provides a brief history and background of sensor fusion and discusses several current applications and installations.