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 delivering 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, using open interfaces and continuous delivery toolchains over bespoke integration, so existing systems can recompose into combinations an adversary hasn’t characterized.
Testing it before combat does
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.
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.
Who Does this work
Builders who measure success in terms of deployed capabilities
DevSecOps Engineers
who automate the build, test, security and deployment stages of the deployment pipeline.
Mission Engineers
who focus on the mission logic and attend field tests to bring back what actually worked and what didn’t.
Product Managers
who build customer relationships by working closely with operators to understand their issues and the constraints of the operational environment.
System Engineers
who use model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to keep requirements, design, and test traceable and in sync as capabilities are developed and adapted.
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What We Can Tell You
Accelerating the Generation of Assured Patches
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
Accelerating the Generation of Assured Patches
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
MISSION ENGINEERING ROLES
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Learn moreLead Algorithm & Signal Processing Engineer
Lead Algorithm & Signal Processing Engineer
Lead Algorithm & Signal Processing Engineer
Lead Systems and RF System Engineer
Lead Systems and RF System Engineer
Lead Systems and RF System Engineer
Principal Algorithm & Signal Processing Engineer
Principal Algorithm & Signal Processing Engineer
Principal Algorithm & Signal Processing Engineer
Principal Radar Systems Engineer
Principal Radar Systems Engineer
Principal Signal Processing Engineer
Principal Signal Processing Researcher
Senior Cyber RF Hardware Engineer
Senior RF Engineer
Senior Signal Processing Researcher
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