Research & Development

A feasibility study answers the questions a program office has to defend: can this be built, at what technology-readiness level does it start, on what schedule, and are the components available through TAA-compliant channels. We frame the trade space against your statement of work and TRL targets, then rule out the approaches that dead-end on cost, schedule or supply before anyone commits budget to them.

The deliverable is a decision, not a research paper — a trade-study report that names the recommended path, the parts it depends on, and the risks that still need to be bought down as the design matures.

Prototyping earns its name only if it produces something you can test. We run rapid prototyping and design iteration — breadboard to fabricated unit — with design reviews at each turn so the concept converges on a fieldable design rather than drifting.

Because sourcing runs alongside the build, a part that can't clear NDAA §889 screening or TAA country-of-origin gets swapped while it is still a design choice, not after it has become a program risk buried in the bill of materials.

A prototype that can't be re-sourced in production quantities is a dead end. We track every component's supply chain from the first breadboard, so the design that passes your critical design review uses parts you can actually buy at scale — not a one-off unit built from whatever was on the bench.

A design-for-manufacture review before handoff catches the assembly steps, tolerances and long-lead parts that turn a clean prototype into an expensive production run, so the build lane inherits a design that is ready to make.

Documentation follows the same discipline as the design. Design history files, test data and a compliance matrix travel with the design, so a downstream integrator or manufacturing partner — including our own manufacturing lane — can pick it up without reverse-engineering your intent.

The handoff package is the point: it lets the build happen under one accountable relationship, with no gap between the engineers who matured the design and the floor that produces it.