Defense Programs, Full Product Lifecycle

Defining the mission problem or opportunity, decision context, investigative questions, and stakeholders — then establishing mission scenario, vignette, objectives, assumptions, constraints, and measures (MOS, MOE, MOP) that anchor thread development. Delivered as paired sprints that scope the full mission-engineering effort.

Developing the baseline mission thread across activities, actors, and outcomes; then allocating systems, organizations, and capabilities to the thread and defining their interactions. DoDAF OV viewpoint products. End-to-end traceability from mission objective to system capability.

Producing integrated baseline and alternative mission architectures for decision support and framing the system-of-systems context — then defining the analysis approach: runs, tools, data, assumptions, and the comparison method used to evaluate alternatives. Supports the Mission Concept Review (MCR).

Executing baseline and alternative analysis to assess mission impact with results traceable to MOE/MOP, then synthesizing findings and producing decision-support recommendations with a briefing to the sponsor. Informs Milestone A and Materiel Solution Analysis.

All seven UAF viewpoints operational in RDS's Defense Solutions platform: Strategic, Operational, System, Service, Personnel, Security, and Project. Viewpoint authoring, cross-view consistency checking, and stakeholder-specific view generation.

System structure, behavior, interfaces, requirements traceability, and parametric constraints per SysML v2. Fifty-plus entity classes operational in the Defense Solutions platform; parametric analysis and automated V&V workflows live in production.

Constituent system identification, SoS boundary analysis, interoperability architecture, and mission thread traceability across constituent systems. SoS feasibility and reference architecture development aligned to DoD digital engineering practice.

DoD Digital Engineering Strategy alignment. Authoritative source of truth for architecture artifacts. Digital twin and digital thread integration concepts; model-centric handoffs to downstream engineering and test.

Integration, regression, and mission-thread verification across the RDS portfolio. V&V cross-reference matrices maintained as living artifacts, not retrofit paperwork.

SysML v2 and UAF model validation, parametric constraint checking, cross-view consistency analysis, and automated model review. Defects caught in the model phase — before they become fielding problems.

RMF evidence generation, STIG hardening verification, CMMC audit-ready artifacts, cybersecurity testing aligned to the System Security Plan. Security testing that produces the evidence package required by auditors and accreditors.

Hardware-in-the-loop, live-fly, and range-based T&E execution are not currently offered in-house. RDS is actively pursuing a teaming partner for these capabilities. Once a partner agreement is in place, RDS will integrate partner-delivered range execution with our in-house software V&V workflows. Ready to execute the integration when a partner is engaged.

Defect resolution, minor enhancement development, obsolescence management, and technology refresh planning. Sustainment scoped and priced as a first-class capability, not as uncommitted program overhead.

Change proposal authoring, impact analysis, configuration baseline updates, and Configuration Control Board coordination. The paperwork that keeps fielded capability coherent across its lifecycle.

Operator feedback collection, mission-effectiveness telemetry, and post-deployment data analysis that feeds next-increment requirements. Sustainment as the learning system that improves the next program milestone.

Preparing the receiving sustainment organization, knowledge transfer, documentation maintenance, and continuity planning. Handoffs designed to transfer operational ownership cleanly — with the evidence and access the receiving organization needs.