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Case study: Counter-drone software and hardware integrations
Engineering on a defense manufacturer's counter-drone software system, and on the integrations that connect it to the hardware as the hardware arrives.
01The situation
What the team needed
A defense manufacturer building a counter-drone capability needed someone who could ship software, wire hardware integrations, and keep a prototype-to-product path moving under real delivery pressure.
The constraints are the ones typical of that stage.
- Ambiguous scope, because the product definition is still moving.
- Software that has to talk to sensors, compute, and field hardware as those pieces arrive.
- Fast iteration cycles, meaning weekly prototype slices rather than quarterly programs.
- A sensitive domain, so care about what gets said publicly.
They needed an embedded product and prototype engineer.
02What we built
Four areas of the work
Engineering on the counter-drone software system and the integrations around it.
- 01Core software systemApplication and system software on the counter-drone product path.
- 02Hardware integrationsInterfaces and glue between the software and the physical and embedded components as the stack matures.
- 03Prototype to product engineeringIncrements the team can review, demo internally, and use to direct next week's work.
- 04Delivery under constraintOwnership and iteration while requirements and hardware availability shift.
03Results
What the work made possible
- 01Next funding roundThe company used the work product to raise it.
- 02TRL 6 on five basesDemoed a TRL 6 capability on five military bases across the US.
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