Arcata performs sustaining engineering, making both hardware and software modifications to add new capabilities, improve system performance, and prolong the useful life. We also have extensive design and development experience spanning all facets of electronic hardware and software design for instrumentation and data processing and display systems.

Our end-to-end capabilities encompass:

Analysis and documentation of functional requirements

Development of technical specifications and cost estimates

Conceptualization, design, development, coding, and documentation of systems

Design evaluation, test, checkout and installation of new equipment, platforms, operating systems and networks

Recommendation, installation and checkout of new systems

Design Reviews

Configuration Management (CM) and Data Management (DM) procedures

Proposals of system modification to improve the operational environment

System-level troubleshooting

Our technical staff consists of electrical, software and communications engineers supported by systems integrators, network administrators and technicians. Our engineering expertise is focused on system design and integration, with development of application specific software. We are proficient in a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix, Irix, and various embedded real time operating systems. In addition, we routinely program in most standard programming languages, including C, C++, Java, Fortran and Ada. We also design custom database applications using standard database development tools such as Oracle and SQL Server.