Overview
Adaptive
Mission Engineering
Conventional defense engineering starts with the platform—how big, how fast, how powerful—and cascades every decision down from there. Mission engineering starts with a different question: what mission must be accomplished, or which kill chain must close? On today’s battlefields the answer keeps changing—as new capabilities and countermeasures are locked in a dynamic contest. We engineer the mission thread end to end, and keep it ahead of the counter, and deliver success where it counts.
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The Mission is the System,
Platforms are the Building Blocks
Engineering the mission,
not the box
A sensor that works, a weapon that works, and a link that works can still fail the mission. We engineer the thread that runs through them—where the cue originates, how it becomes bits, and the mission intelligence that enables search and targeting, delivering it to a decision-maker who can act on it in time. In our world, the mission is the system; the platforms are building blocks.
Composing effects webs from systems that have never met
A sensor built for one service and a weapon built for another rarely communicate—different data representations, different timing, no shared software. We work at those seams, exploiting open interfaces and continuous delivery toolchains over bespoke integration, so existing systems can be recomposed into combinations an adversary hasn’t seen. Every viable configuration is a contingency they have to plan against.
Keeping fielded capability fluid
Most defense software freezes the day it deploys—severed from its build chain, brittle against the first surprise. We deploy instrumented capabilities, so operational contact drives engineering decisions, with pipelines that push validated updates back into the operator’s hands.
Testing it before combat does
Driving to speed without rigor just ships mistakes faster. We emphasize traceability through an entire mission thread—every contributing system and interface, modeled at the system-of-systems level—and stress-test composed capability under controlled adversity. A demonstration proves a system works as advertised; an experiment tells you something you didn’t know.
Who Does this work
Builders Who Measure Success in Terms of Deployed Capabilities
DevSecOps Engineers
who are passionate about delivering mission-relevant capabilities.
Mission Engineers and Product Managers
who build relationships by working closely with operators to understand their issues and the constraints of the operational environment.
System Engineers and Architects
who use MBSE to keep requirements, design, and test traceable and in sync as capabilities are developed and adapted.
How We work
Organized for Speed to Deployment
Technology leverage
Our advanced research portfolio keeps us at the edge of what is possible. We package key elements for reuse so they can be reused to rapidly speed delivery and lower development costs.
Commercial product mindset
To develop and deploy high-quality software quickly, we use agile software practices backed by DevSecOps tooling. These tools support tailorable CI/CD pipelines, security shift-left practices, maintenance of Certificate to Field (CtF), and continuous Authority to Operate (cATO). We also use AI tools to accelerate development without losing understanding of the underlying software. A company-wide Internal Development Platform supports these tools and enables dynamic environment creation.
Modern software processes and tooling
Our product managers use commercial product-discovery practices to understand user problems quickly. We deploy minimum viable products within weeks to deliver value early and create fast feedback loops. We build product lines around reusable technology cores, enabling rapid creation of bespoke variants. Our mission engineers then work with operators to improve and adapt those products to operational needs.
PRODUCTS
What We Can Tell You
Tailored Planning and C2 Workflows
Alchemy deploys responsive, hierarchical C2 systems spanning all echelons and domains.
Enables dynamic campaign planning, resource coordination and deconfliction, and all-domain plan monitoring through machine-to-machine optimization and integration.
Supports operational commands through software deployed on classified networks.
A tight innovation loop between STR mission engineers and key users quickly surfaces new capabilities and adapts systems in production to evolving mission needs.
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AI systems can find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can analyze and patch them. Our Axle static code analyzer uses lightweight formal methods to prove assurance properties of generated patches, reducing the gap from discovery to patch.
Tailorable correctness definitions separate useful findings from noise
Users can tune the scope and formalization level of defined properties
Query language prioritizes efficient formal verification
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AI systems can find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can analyze and patch them. Our Axle static code analyzer uses lightweight formal methods to prove assurance properties of generated patches, reducing the gap from discovery to patch.
Tailorable correctness definitions separate useful findings from noise
Users can tune the scope and formalization level of defined properties
Query language prioritizes efficient formal verification
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