Defense Research & Development IT

R&D IT for Advanced Defense Programs

Defense research and development drives technological superiority. From hypersonic weapons to quantum communications, R&D programs develop capabilities ensuring military advantage. These programs require specialized IT infrastructure supporting computational fluid dynamics simulations demanding petaflops of compute power, collaboration across geographically distributed research teams, protection of intellectual property representing billions in investment, and integration of modeling, simulation, and test data. Our defense R&D IT practice provides comprehensive infrastructure enabling researchers to focus on innovation rather than IT challenges.

High-Performance Computing for Defense

Advanced defense systems require extensive computational analysis. Hypersonic vehicle design requires computational fluid dynamics simulating airflow at Mach 5+. Electronic warfare systems need electromagnetic modeling of complex scenarios. Nuclear weapons require simulation codes maintaining stockpile without testing. We deploy high-performance computing infrastructure including CPU and GPU clusters providing petaflops of performance, parallel file systems with petabytes of storage, high-speed interconnects enabling efficient scaling, and classified network connectivity for TS/SCI workloads. Our HPC clusters support the most demanding defense applications.

Secure Collaboration for Classified Research

Defense R&D often involves multiple organizations—national laboratories, university research centers, and defense contractors—collaborating on classified programs. Our secure collaboration solutions include classified video teleconferencing for program reviews, encrypted file sharing with classification controls, collaborative engineering tools supporting distributed design teams, and secure cloud environments providing shared computational resources. All systems enforce need-to-know access controls ensuring personnel access only information relevant to their program role while enabling the collaboration essential for successful R&D.

Research Data Management & Lifecycle

Defense R&D generates massive data volumes—wind tunnel tests, flight tests, simulations, and experiments all produce data requiring long-term retention. Our research data management solutions provide automated data capture from test instrumentation, metadata tagging enabling data discovery years later, hierarchical storage management optimizing storage costs, and data analytics platforms extracting insights from historical data. Retention policies implement records management requirements, ensuring data is preserved according to classification and program needs while securely disposing data when retention periods expire.

Defense R&D IT Capabilities

• High-performance computing (HPC) clusters
• Classified network connectivity (TS/SCI)
• Secure collaboration for distributed teams
• Research data management and analytics
• Modeling and simulation infrastructure
• Test data acquisition and processing
• Intellectual property protection
• Integration with test ranges and facilities