Billingsley Aerospace & Defense, Inc. is the successor corporation to Billingsley Magnetics. Eva M. Wakefield is the president of the corporation as well as contract administrator and program manager for major programs. S.W. "Bill" Billingsley is our lead designer and principal engineer. Mr. Billingsley has been in business designing and developing s since 1978. Mr. Billingsley has developed magnetic instrumentation for the U.S. Government as a direct employee and subsequently for several companies including Billingsley Aerospace & Defense, Inc. (BA&D).
The BA&D technical staff has over 50 years of combined experience. We design and produce ultra high-reliability fluxgate magnetometers, gradiometers and Helmholtz Coil systems. We perform the research and development necessary to push the state of the art in sensor sensitivity, stability, and low noise performance.
BA&D is widely recognized by respected members of the scientific community. For example, IBM's Watson Research Center and the Czech Technical University in Prague , are working on separate collaborative research projects with BA&D to develop fundamental improvements in the fluxgate mechanism. Additionally, we have participated in SBIR programs in the past and are currently involved in the development of new instruments for DARPA.
In addition to our standard products, BA&D designs, develops and manufactures magnetic field instrumentation to customer's specifications. We also perform environmental testing, magnetic site surveys, instrument recalibration services and technical consulting. Our fully integrated test laboratory is available for rental.
BA&D's laboratory is located in Brookeville , Maryland . The facility is in a rural, magnetically quiet location that is ideally suited for precise magnetic measurements. Our facility is state-of-the-art, and is comprised of a 500 square foot "quiet laboratory" that is remote from the main building and an additional 1,800 square feet of lab and office space. The laboratory is completely equipped for assembly and characterization of magnetic sensors. It is highly automated and has three triaxial, closed loop servo controlled, Helmholtz Coil Systems; a 1 meter coil, and two 2.2 meter coils. This allows testing of large numbers of instruments rapidly, accurately and with complete reporting capabilities. The controllers maintain magnetic fields precisely at desired levels, even in the presence of large changes in the background magnetic field.
