Data Acquisition Error Budget Analysis Tools

We propose to develop an abstract model for a reconfigurable airborne data acquisition system that includes models of the tools to analyze specific error budgets. We propose to determine the feasibility of implementing these tools in a software program that would automate the error budget process for any given data acquisition system and produce the overall measurement uncertainty (error) for all measurands in the system. Our intention is to implement the tools imbedded in this model and conceived in Phase I in a commercially marketable software product in Phase II of this effort. We contend that capturing total system error budget in a data acquisition system is critical to the conduct of successful, affordable test and evaluation (T&E)in the twenty-first century.