We defeat friction.
Our Value chain is your phased acceleration to delivery success
Get Innovations with dramatic Speed to Market with higher precision: faster, better, cheaper, and smarter all at once has been impossible. We cracked that. Program delivery at twice the speed, proven globally, for military and commercial programs alike.
- Seaport NxG prime
- MDA IDIQ prime
- IAC MAC Subcontractor
- IBM Business Partner
- TD Synnex Partner
Friction is the thing actually eating your schedule.
Not the engineering. The handoffs, the reconciliations, the change board, the classification split, the requirement nobody can trace to a test. Every program leader knows where it lives and almost none of them have a mechanism to remove it.
Big bang projects that take years.
RFP cycles that outlive the requirement.
Do it yourself platforms nobody adopts.
Just in time, on demand products instead. US COTS platforms and AI models, ready now, customizable to your use case.
A Value chain for delivery friction.
Six phases, run in order, the same way you would prosecute any other target. Each phase has an exit criterion, so you always know whether it worked. 100% success rate over 35 years across 3 firms.
Find
Make decisions across program/portfolio management and technical architecture, not where the status deck says it does.
Fix
Baseline it. Model, Requirements, Tests, IMS, Tasks, Data: traceable, authoritative, collaborative, concurrent.
Track
Instrument it. Live digital threads across tools and data sources fully orchestrated for decision-optimized tradeoffs.
Target
Allow all project/portfolio management & acquisition staff to right-click for instant impact analysis for changes on live data.
Engage
Deliver it. US COTS engineering/program/portfolio tools, industry standard AI platform, trained models customized to Use Cases.
Assess
Measure and report. Create plans of actions/milestones & manage changes in 48 hours, not next quarter.
Two domains. Two capabilities. Industry Standard. Proven.
Every engagement sits at one of the four squares below. It keeps our teams deep rather than broad, and it tells you in one sentence what you are buying.
Mission systems engineering
- Integrated MBSE & MOSA architecture for delivery acceptance
- Interoperability across unlike systems with pre-built patterns
- C-UAS and UxG design, integration, manufacturing, training
- Satellite servicing, simulation, intercept, on-orbit ops
Governed AI for the mission
- AI enablement, infrastructure, and integration
- AI model training and development on your data
- Preventive, optimized AI maintenance & asset management
- Classified/unclassified handling, AI governance, and audit trail
Private research lab
- Competitive technology evaluation, M&A integration
- Innovation development by contract
- Internal product evaluation and technical due diligence
- Speed to market program integration, idea through production
AI for optimization and efficiency
- Decision optimization for executives/management/desk/field
- On premises AI stack appliances on Red Hat OpenShift
- Hybrid AI ecosystem, reducing hyperscaler dependency
- Avoid data center challenges with hybrid on-prem rack
From launch to intercept, LEO/Polar to the lunar surface.
Rocket Technology was founded in 2002. Rocketeers carry 45-yr technical lineage straight into client work, which is why our defense and space engagements start further along than a small business engagement normally would.
Intercept
Missile defense and intercept systems architecture, carried today into a prime position on the MDA Golden Dome IDIQ.
On orbit
NASA Goddard programs including Hubble and on orbit servicing, plus satellite servicing concepts for both crewed and robotic missions.
Missions and systems
Small payloads work at NASA GSFC Code 600. Mission systems, ground systems, and operations concept design as one integrated model.
Lunar surface
White paper for lunar surface habitation with anthropomorphic robots, Presidential commission on the future of space, 1989.
Programs are so disjointed and create unintended consequences. This approach is so significant that I wish I had it for my fighter programs. Every program should have it.
Major General, SAF/AQ, Program Manager, retired
A laboratory-for-hire, and an honest second opinion.
Two things large commercial firms cannot easily buy: an objective read on technology someone is selling them, and a new capability without standing up a permanent research organization. We do both.
Independent studies
We evaluate contractor, vendor, and internal technology and deliver written findings and recommendations. We are not reselling the thing we are evaluating, and we put that in writing before the engagement starts.
New capability on retainer
We work as an outside lab across materials, industrial process, sensing, autonomy, and software for major industrial and chemical firms. The intellectual property that results belongs to you.
Speed to market
Innovation fails at integration far more often than at invention. We act as the general contractor across your teams, vendors, and technologies so promising work reaches production instead of stalling in a pilot.
Grow AI capacity without growing the data center.
AI workloads are growing faster than facility capacity can be added, and steady state inference at metered cloud rates is now a visible line on the income statement. At the same time, sovereignty and controlled unclassified information rules are pushing data back inside the boundary.
We deliver a self contained AI stack appliance built on Red Hat OpenShift with GPU acceleration, a governed watsonx layer, and a control plane spanning the appliance, your existing estate, and whatever cloud you keep. Predictable and sensitive workloads run on hardware you control. Burst workloads stay in the cloud. No single provider holds your roadmap.
watsonx services and hosting
Licensing, architecture, deployment, model development, and governance. We can host and operate the whole thing under a fixed monthly arrangement so you do not staff a platform team.
The appliance
OpenShift, GPU acceleration sized to the workload, and a governed AI layer. It arrives as a rack, installed and supported. No facility expansion program, no new power study.
The exit path
One control plane across appliance, existing estate, and cloud. Leaving a single hyperscaler becomes an air-gapped solution without expensive GPU and egress fees.
Past supporters.
Sponsors and champions across the federal and commercial divisions, going back four decades.
Federal division
- NAVAIR1.0, 4.0, PEO UW, and the Source Selection office
- Missile Defense AgencyNational Team B program manager
- SAF/AQMajor General, retired
- United States NavyUnder Secretary of Defense, and top civilian, retired
- Senior Executive ServiceAcross the Department of War
- IBMVice presidents, Consulting and Products
Commercial division
- Commonwealth of Virginia, VDOTTwo governors and the state CIO. The world's first online self service trucking routing and premit system
- Fortune 20, Manufacturer, CPG FirmThe company's first intranet application and interactive training for eight thousand staff
- Richmond Chamber of CommerceWorkforce program leader under the Speaker of the House. The first total community workforce system
- NASA GoddardHST Systems Engineering, instrument systems engineering, EVA/robotics ops
- Top Healthcare DistributorSimulated buying system for hospitals
- Fortune 20 Engineering FirmCybersecurity scan for all rail platforms
RTI delivered 5 out of 5 on the contract.
Program Manager, GE
Show us where the friction is.
A fixed price study, a working prototype, or one embedded expert. We scope the first step so the deliverable is useful to you even if you never hire us again.
We will bring an engineer, not a salesperson.