ISR-3 group members represent a variety of backgrounds including computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software development, system administration, and cyber security. ISR-3 provides critical contributions to all phases of ISR’s scientific and national security missions including conception, development, testing, operations, and maintenance.
Focus Areas
Embedded & Flight Software Engineering
- Embedded systems and flight software for ground, airborne, and space missions
- Modular space payload hardware and software architectures
- Advanced embedded communication technologies for space applications
- Low-level driver implementation to support custom remote sensing hardware
- Onboard command and control, data acquisition, and data processing
Command & Acquisition Systems
- Integrated multi-sensor operator interfaces for ground, airborne, and space missions
- Software tools and algorithms for real-time data interpretation
- Ground support equipment for system development, validation and verification
- Operational ground systems for command and control, data acquisition, and data distribution
- Management and maintenance of deployed systems
Computing Infrastructure, Integration, and Security
- Design, sustain, and continually enhance the general computing environment and infrastructure of ISR and it's collaborators to support their many missions across multiple levels of classification
- Collaborate with stakeholders to architect, integrate, and maintain mission-focused computing solutions within the larger environment when specific mission needs arise
- Implement and oversee cybersecurity compliance, system accreditation, continuous monitoring, risk management, and security control adherence across multiple network levels and classifications
Data Processing & Management
Data-centric standardization, automated processing pipelines, and secure archiving of data products
Cross-domain file transfer and integration of data exploitation methods into existing processing pipelines
Maintenance and operation of end-to-end modeling and simulation software framework
ML / Data Engineering
- Machine learning infrastructure and MLOps for developing, deploying, and maintaining ML models supporting space mission analysis and anomaly detection
- Scalable data engineering pipelines for ingesting, processing, and transforming petabyte-scale mission data from space-based sensors
- Advanced time series analytics with sophisticated query engines, multi-fidelity caching, and automated down sampling for efficient analysis of temporal space data
- Database architecture and optimization including NoSQL and SQL systems designed for high-throughput mission data storage and real-time retrieval
- Event driven workflow orchestration to enable continuous data integration, quality assurance, and distribution to mission stakeholders
- High-performance computing solutions leveraging distributed frameworks and cloud-native deployment on OpenShift/Kubernetes
- Mission-specific model adaptation, including supervised fine-tuning and benchmarking of language and analytical models against domain-relevant datasets and evaluation metrics.
Ground & Operational Software Engineering
- Software for the ground and operational elements of ISR’s space missions
- Interfacing with external mission stakeholders to ensure successful software integration
- Design and implementation of software algorithms in both high- and low-level languages
- High software quality standards and formal documentation and requirements tracking
- Maintenance and sustainment of deployed software
