APTEK

APTEK, Incorporated is an applied research and development (R&D) company located in Colorado Springs, CO. We are a privately owned S-Corporation. Since being founded in 1980, APTEK has performed R&D studies primarily for the US government-DOD, DOE, NASA and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). We have a select, stable technical staff, both full and part time, of senior engineers and scientists. The average tenure of our employees exceeds 19 years. In addition to their continuing technical contributions, each member of our technical staff has had responsibility for the management of multiple programs or has owned and operated a company. Our senior administrator has been with the company for 23 years.

The APTEK R&D studies-both analytical and experimental-have primarily been directed at:

• Development of software products and other technologies for a wide variety of applications
• Evaluation of civil and defense structures to explosive blast and fragment loads
• Evaluation of strategic missile systems to intense x-ray loads from nuclear or laser weapons
• Highway safety studies

APTEK has won over 50 awards from the very competitive Small Business Innovation Research program which has led to two hardware technology patents and one software patent.

Software Products:

• Mixed Mode Constitutive Driver (MMCD).  This software is used to determine accurate LS-DYNA Material Model coefficients from test data.
• TSR Toolkit (TSRTk)

Patents:

• US Patent #5,950,190: Dynamic, self-modifying graphical user interface for relational database applications.
  Issued: 9/7/1999
• U.S. Patent #5,901,928
  Active Turbulence Control Technique for Drag Reduction
  Issued: 5/11/1999
• U.S. Patent #5,644,122
  Grin Optical System
  Issued: 7/1/1997