Commercial Nuclear Design Services and Capabilities

We Have the Personnel and Processes in Place to Meet and Exceed Your Design Requirements

Leonardo DRS Naval Power Systems has an engineering staff to meet all of your design needs. Our team of engineers and designers is experienced across multiple disciplines, and has been developing safety applications for the nuclear industry for over 55 years. Whether you need a circuit card designed, a power supply upgrade, or a complete Distributed Control System, Leonardo DRS has the personnel and processes in place to meet and exceed your requirements. 


Engineering Team
Our NQA trained engineers provide design services from components to complete systems. We leverage the best in class off-the-shelf technologies along with custom designed solutions to meet the your application needs. Custom solutions are also available for critical safety systems and COTs components can be leveraged for cost sensitive applications.

Leonardo DRS Naval Power Systems provides the following engineering services: system engineering, analog and digital design engineering, mechanical design engineering, software engineering, test engineering, and field service.

Design Competencies

Our Design Capabilities Include the Following:

  • Microprocessor, microcontroller and DSP designs, extensive 68360 and Power PC family and TMS320 DSP experience
  • Programmable Logic: High speed logic design, specializing in custom VHDL on Xilinx FPGA platforms
  • Communications: High speed electrical and optical communications including Gb Ethernet, Profibus, PROFINET, DeviceNet, SCRAMNET
  • A/D, D/A, Thermocouple, RTD, LVDT, encoder, resolvers, 4-20mA
  • Instrumentation signal conditioning
  • Design of high speed, highly dense impedance controlled layout capabilities
  • Design of power supplies from 5W to 30kW. Designed to MIL-STD-461 & MIL-STD-1399, IEEE
  • Highly efficient and compact electric actuator drives featuring flexible front ends utilizing active rectifier, power factor correction and input current harmonic control
  • Design of video circuits for display, scaling, converting, gamma correction and optical extenders
  • Cabinet / weldment design for seismic applications
  • Thermal and structural analysis
  • Mechanical packaging Cable and harness design
  • Ruggedized display / display system design for seismic and MIL-S-901D
  • In-house LCD bonding
  • High efficiency LED backlight technology
  • Custom embedded software utilizing C and C++
  • Operating System, application software, hardware drivers, system BIOS
  • Custom board support packages (BSP)
  • Commercial system software including Embedded Windows™ and VxWorks
  • Application expertise in Instrumentation and Control (I&C), nuclear safety systems, motor control.
DRS CCI facility
Focused on Continuous Quality Improvement

DRS Consolidated Controls has established one comprehensive quality program designed to meet the stringent requirements of our customers and regulatory authorities.

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Consolidated Controls History
A Legacy of Quality and Commitment

DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc. has been a premier supplier of Class 1E and non-1E Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems to the Nuclear Industry for more than fifty years.

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Commercial Nuclear Customers
Commercial Nuclear Control Systems

DRS has successfully delivered quality I&C to major power plants around the globe. We are dedicated to providing support, services, upgrades and obsolescence management on an on-going basis.

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