The Federal Aviation Administration chose Sandia National Laboratories to create and operate the FAA’s Airworthiness Assurance Non-Destructive Inspection Validation Center (AANC) to help solve the national problem of understanding aging fleets’ airworthiness.
As civil and military fleets continue to age and aircraft evolve from all-metallic to composite structures, the continued airworthiness assurance problem grows more complex.
We work routinely with government, academia, and private industry, both domestic and international on such activities as: