Our experience in ground mission operations and program acquisition supplies a full spectrum of life cycle specialty engineering expertise. This expertise provides our customers with timely and relevant decision-making support throughout the entire life of the program. From the start of a complex ground processing program through the subsequent operational test and implementation of the system into production, PSG personnel have the skills and experience to make ground system transitions successful from “cradle to grave”.

PSG ground systems engineering support provides unique expertise in the following areas:

• Review Work Statements and Proposal Evaluations
• Define Specifications and Top Level Program Documentation
• Support Technical Developments and associated Meetings
• Define and Document hardware and software benchmark tests that validate system architectures
• Review and Evaluation of Contractor System Designs and Analyses
• Review of Contractor Technical Performance
• Participate in Anomaly Resolutions
• Support Integration, Configuration and Interface Control Reviews
• Perform rigorous requirements analysis on complex programs
• Support the customer’s consolidation objectives through the specifiction of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and other leading-edge technologies
• Monitor hardware and software development on complex programs
• Monitor system integration activities on production programs and maintain a critical understanding of their operational capabilities and vulnerabilities
• Support Operational transitions and operations concepts development and validation activities
• Create plans and processes that leverage existing capabilities and which can evolve into new system functions
• Develop the ground interface engineering plans required for mission and product development that includes data storage and data fusion