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SOLUTION Defense Aerospace Mission-Critical

Technology Solutions for Defense & Aerospace

Mission-ready embedded, RF, edge, and secure software for demanding programs.

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CHALLENGE / RESPONSE

The industry's challenges — and how we answer them.

Challenge 01

Certification evidence gets assembled too late

Mission and airborne software is expected to show requirements traceability, review records, and test evidence. On most programs that documentation is reconstructed near the end of the schedule, exactly when changes cost the most.

RT Projects Response

We structure work packages so traceability, review notes, and test results are produced while the code is written. The certification path stays owned by your program, and the engineering evidence it depends on arrives with each delivery instead of after it.

Challenge 02

Legacy platforms, new mission requirements

Fielded systems run on MCUs, buses, and RF front-ends that were specified years ago, while new requirements ask for on-device processing, higher data rates, and encrypted links.

RT Projects Response

We profile and optimize against the existing silicon first. Where the headroom genuinely runs out, we design a compute or RF module that keeps the mechanical, electrical, and interface envelope intact so the platform does not need to be requalified from scratch.

Challenge 03

Update and diagnostics paths become the weak surface

Once a device is deployed, firmware update, key handling, and diagnostics are the surfaces an adversary reaches first. They are also the parts of the system that are usually designed last.

RT Projects Response

We treat secure boot, image signing, and telemetry as part of the system architecture rather than a late addition: verified update flows, key storage on the device, and diagnostics that give integration teams what they need without opening a maintenance back door.

Challenge 04

Integration risk concentrates at the end of the program

Hardware, firmware, and application software mature on different timelines, so schedule risk accumulates in the final integration window, when there is no margin left to absorb it.

RT Projects Response

We take ownership of defined work packages with integration milestones early in the program: bring-up on real hardware, staged validation against the interfaces, and a documented production handoff. Risk is retired while the schedule can still absorb it.

RT Projects supports defense and aerospace teams with embedded software, RF systems, board-level integration, secure communication workflows, and production-oriented engineering delivery.

Programs in this sector are judged on evidence rather than intent: interfaces that hold against real hardware, environmental margins that survive qualification, and documentation a reviewer can actually follow. We join where that pressure is highest — porting to constrained silicon, stabilizing an integration that keeps slipping, or owning a work package end to end — and hand back software your team can maintain and defend in a review.

Technology Stack
RFSoC FPGA Embedded Linux Secure Boot Telemetry RTOS DO-178C readiness System Validation
Capabilities

Mission-critical embedded software

Real-time software for constrained systems, field devices, and hardware-adjacent applications.

RF and signal-processing systems

Support for RF workflows, SDR concepts, FPGA-adjacent integration, and system validation.

Secure communication workflows

Architecture and implementation support for secure update, signing, diagnostics, and telemetry paths.

Program delivery support

Engineering planning, integration milestones, risk reduction, and production handoff support.

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Services
Industries Served
19+
Years experience
200+
Projects delivered
2M+
Deployed devices
3
Global offices
COMPLIANCE & STANDARDS

Built to the standards this sector is audited against.

We engineer toward the standards your program is measured against, and produce the evidence its certification path depends on.

DO-178C

RTCA

Airborne software design assurance. We support readiness workflows — requirements traceability, review records, and coverage evidence — while certification responsibility remains with the program and its designated authority.

DO-254

RTCA

Design assurance for airborne electronic hardware. Relevant where we integrate against, validate, or support FPGA and complex hardware items inside the system.

MIL-STD-810

US DoD

Environmental qualification. We design and validate toward the shock, vibration, humidity, and thermal profiles the program defines for its operating envelope.

MIL-STD-461

US DoD

Electromagnetic interference requirements. We support EMI and EMC aware board and RF integration, plus pre-compliance measurement and debug before formal test.

MIL-STD-1553 / ARINC 429

SAE / ARINC

Avionics data bus interfaces. Driver, diagnostics, and integration work against 1553, ARINC 429, and CAN in mixed legacy and modern architectures.

FIPS 140-3

NIST

Cryptographic module requirements. We architect key handling, secure boot, and signing flows around approved modules and HSM integration paths.

Need a standard that is not listed? Compliance scope is defined per engagement. Talk to an engineer →

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