Our consulting services are an extension of our business model:

Development of both Strategic and Mission Definition artifacts and Operational Context artifacts supporting technology transfer projects, primarily Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) projects.

Our primary business domain expertise:

• Defense

• Intelligence

• Homeland Security

Projects

These are some recent technology transfer projects for which Ascendant Concepts provided systems engineering support, primarily business domain expertise, development of strategic and mission definition artifacts, and development of operational context artifacts:

• Mechanics and Control of Autonomous Legged Robotic Systems in Mud (in association with CMU Robotics Institute)

• Automatic Identification System Heads-Up Display (AISHUD) (in association with the FedTech National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) and the University of Hawaii Applied Research Laboratory)

• Information and Decision Recommender (in association with Worldwide Interoperability Solutions and Capabilities, George Mason University C4I Center, InCadence, and Geographic Services, Inc.)

• Innovative Wound Regeneration Support Approaches to Enable Rapid Treatment of Wounded Warfighters (in association with Genlantis, Inc. and the George Washington University Office of Technology Transfer)

• Semantic Targeting for Open Source Intelligence Analysis (in association with Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC)

• Knowledge-aided Interface for Big Data Streams (in association with Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC)

• Strengthening Human Adaptive Reasoning and Problem-solving (SHARP) Program (in association with Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC)

Illustration courtesy of US Department of Veterans Affairs

Illustration courtesy of US National Energy Technology Laboratory

Publications

• STRIDER: Toward an AI Collaborator for Intelligence Analysis

• Regional Trends in UN Patent Data for the Period 2010 and 2020

• Case Study: U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Deepwater System

• Systems Thinking in the Critical Infrastructure Domain [This appendix is the contribution of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) to the book "Powering Through: Building Critical Infrastructure Resilience." The appendix is a primer on critical infrastructure protection and recovery from a systems science and systems engineering perspective.]