Manufacturing Spec Sheet - AUVAC

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COMPANY HISTORY
Founded in 1993 by Dr. Douglas Humphreys and Mr.
Kenneth W. Watkinson, Vehicle Control Technologies,
Inc. (VCT) is a valued member of vehicle design teams
at Navy shipbuilders, weapon system prime contractors
and Navy laboratories. The VCT team continues a commitment
to excellence and service spanning more than
40 years – 30 years in the private industry (Titan Research
& Technologies) and 10 in the Navy laboratory system.
VCT is a small business with 22 employees, having started
as a transition of personnel and technology from the
ARAP group of Titan Research and Technologies.
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Dr. Douglas E. Humphreys, President
Dr. Humphreys is a senior consultant to both industry and government agencies, primarily on U.S.
Navy research projects in dynamics and control, simulation, and design of both hydrodynamic
and aerodynamic vehicles. He has conducted research, design and analysis of the dynamics and
control of numerous underwater vehicles, performing studies and simulations on the four newest
U.S. fleet submarines and control surface design concepts for the SSN 21 and the new Virginia
class. He has performed design studies covering concept formulation, feasibility analyses,
preliminary design, detailed design and experimental validation on a wide variety of undersea
vehicle systems including AQS-20 Towed Sonar Vehicle and Mk 30 Target Vehicle. 80% of those
applications have been for vehicles with unique or novel geometries, where no previous experimental
data were available. He has conducted the design or analysis of over 350 underwater and
air vehicles, and he has authored more than 200 technical reports.
Dr. Thomas F. Tureaud, Vice President
Since 1994, he has been a Senior Design Engineer at Vehicle Control Technologies, Inc. Dr. Tureaud
manages the underwater development group that includes four Mechanical Engineers and
four Electrical Engineers. At VCT, he has been involved with over 30 designs for underwater systems.
These include an UXO underwater search vehicle; the AQS20 towed system, an automated
docking and launch and recovery system, and several UUV and towed vehicles. He is partner on
two patents, has several patents pending, and is currently the Vice President at VCT.