Innovative Defense Technologies

About Innovative Defense Technologies

Innovative Defense Technologies is a company that received a Department of Defense SBIR/STTR grant for a project entitled: Artifact Assessment Tool Suite Infrastructure (AATSI). The abstract given for this project is as follows: Tracking the quality, completeness, standards adherence and consistency of radio software from initial requirements, coding, testing, all the way through to production is a complex and error-prone task involving a myriad of people, processes, and technologies. The various groups responsible and involved in the critical radio software engineering phase such as development, configuration management, testers, release, users, etc. are often separated by organizational boundaries, disconnected toolsets, or possibly even vast geographic locations. Automation and integration of such efforts is key to solving this issue, to include integration of relevant processes, tools, analysis capabilities, artifact management and other related efforts. An excellent opportunity exists to solve this problem of disconnected efforts by implementing a program such as AATSI. The goal for AATSI is to support compliance and quality assessment analysis of digital artifacts produced for all phases of code intensive product development, particularly code intended for embedded real-time systems. Additionally, this effort will provide opportunities to extend these capabilities to provide historical reporting and tracking for the life cycle of the products. It will allow various teams to work together seamlessly within the same infrastructure, supporting the efficient and successful delivery of radio software. Innovative Defense Technologies is a company that received a Department of Defense SBIR/STTR grant for a project entitled: Military Training Systems Acceptance Test & Evaluation. The abstract given for this project is as follows: The Navy's flight and maintenance training simulators systems are growing in complexity, and becoming more and more dependent on COTS HW and SW, as well as, the successful re-use of software developed from other programs. Despite the advances in development practices and tools, the goals of accelerating the rate at which training systems can be delivered, and accepted, while reducing their costs cannot be met without comparable improvement in the practices and tools for acceptance testing. Training system deficiencies that are not identified and corrected during testing have resulted in reduced performance and training effectiveness. An excellent opportunity exists to rapidly accelerate the ability to deliver advanced capabilities of training systems by significantly reducing the overall acceptance testing timeframe through the use of commercial testing automation tools, which are either existing or emerging, throughout the test and evaluation life cycle.