Parvus has been named by Lockheed Martin as Small Business Of The Year 2008. This singular recognition comes as a result of Parvus meeting or exceeding all quality objectives, delivery schedules and project deliverables related to pre-production communication, navigation, and identification (CNI) battery subsystems for the F-22 Raptor. These units provide redundant, fail-safe power in all situations to critical encryption/decryption equipment onboard the F-22 aircraft.
Parvus director of aerospace and defence programmes Mike Simpson said: "Despite the complexity of the technology and fast-track nature of the CNI battery programme, Parvus maintained on-time delivery rates exceeding 95%, including a functional prototype only six months after contract award and a production-representative unit after ten months.
"All safety-of-flight qualification testing was completed after 15 months, and now we are in the thick of fulfilling our $3.5 million production contract."
Parvus went beyond the scope of the original development contract to implement design features and reliability improvements that are expected to save hundreds of man-hours per month of maintenance time. While the contract specification required 30 days of total battery life under worst-case conditions, Parvus's final design achieved more than 40 days without a recharge, which greatly improves the mission readiness of the F-22.
An ISO-9001 quality-certified company since 1993, Parvus has a long history of working with Lockheed Martin on a variety of aerospace and defence programmes. Parvus enjoys delegated source inspection authority with Lockheed for its strong quality and delivery performance.
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