We kill friction.
Our kill chain is your phased acceleration to delivery success
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 Golden Dome IDIQ prime
- KBR IAC MAC at NAWCTSD
- 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 kill 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.
Find
Locate where the schedule actually leaks. Usually not where the status deck says it does.
Fix
Baseline it. Requirements, architecture, and data made traceable and authoritative.
Track
Instrument it. A live digital thread across requirements, model, change, and test.
Target
Prioritize with data driven trade-offs rather than the loudest voice in the room.
Engage
Deliver. COTS platforms and pre trained AI models customized to the use case.
Assess
Measure and report. POAMs and reports inside twenty four hours, not next quarter.
Two domains. Two capabilities.
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
- MBSE and MOSA architecture for delivery acceptance, using UAF, SysML, and DoDAF
- Interoperability across unlike systems, with NASA and DoW ICD ownership
- C-UAS and UxG system design, integration, and the training programs behind them
- Space systems, satellite servicing, and on orbit operations
Governed AI for the mission
- AI enablement, infrastructure, and integration, in the organization and in the product
- AI model training and development on your data
- Preventive and optimized asset management and enterprise maintenance
- Classified and unclassified handling, model governance, and audit trail
Private research lab
- Independent studies of contractor and vendor technology, with no resale interest
- New capability invented for you, with intellectual property you own
- Internal product evaluation and technical due diligence
- Speed to market program integration, idea through production
AI for optimization and efficiency
- Decision optimization and data driven trade-offs at the desk and in the field
- On premises AI stack appliances on Red Hat OpenShift
- Hybrid AI ecosystem, reducing hyperscaler dependency
- Software development and open source assurance
From intercept, to orbit, to the lunar surface.
Rocket Technology was founded by Linken Parikh. The firm carries his 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
A white paper on robotics for the lunar surface and the habitation and colony systems that follow it, accepted into the appendix of the Presidential commission on the future of space, chaired by Vice President Dan Quayle.
Programs are so disjointed. 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
An outside laboratory, 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 stops being a slide and becomes a schedule.
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 VirginiaTwo governors and the state CIO. The world's first online self service state trucking routing system
- Philip MorrisThe company's first intranet application and interactive training for eight thousand staff
- Richmond ChamberWorkforce program leader under the Speaker of the House. The first total community workforce system
- NASA GoddardSmall payloads leader, Code 600
- McKessonSimulated buying system for hospitals
They take an idea and turn it into a solution at a fraction of the time and cost.
Program Manager, United States Navy
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.