The Flight Simulation Facilities have several Integration Labs. The Integration Labs are used to connect aircraft and spacecraft avionics components to the facility infrastructure so that they may be used in a simulation environment for evaluation/assessment prior to use in a Flight Operations environment. The integration labs have the following features:
- Human-in-the-Loop Simulator integrates with System Integration Lab for Hardware-in-the-loop, End-to-End Mission Simulation
- Hardware Systems for testing include Avionics; Command, Control, Communications, and Information (C3I); Audio, Voice, and Video
- Equipment interfaced directly with simulator facilities
- High speed communications network
- Video and audio distribution
- Full simulation of actual vehicle signal busses (ARINC, discretes, analogs, serial, telemetry)
- Lab has communication and navigation capabilities via roof mounted
- VHF blade, L-band, and GPS antenna
- Virtually any avionics hardware or protocol can be integrated into lab
- Flight management computers
- Flight control computers
The integration labs have been used with many projects in support of Simulation-to-Flight operations.