Delivering High Value Expertise
to Defense Customers

Axient delivers advanced SE&I, modeling, simulation, software, and analysis expertise to help our Defense and Space customers develop, test, and evaluate next-generation weapons and systems.

  • Comprehensive Multi-Domain Analysis
  • Advanced Analysis
  • Counter-UAS Testing
  • Forensics Analysis
  • C5ISR

We provide end-to-end test and evaluation services and solutions for ground, flight, and operational testing. We have expertise in detailed modeling and simulation of combat system elements for design, test planning, and performance analysis and provide advanced multi-sensor data fusion solutions for ingesting, fusing, and disseminating real-time data from air, sea, land, and space sensors. Our services include:

  • Flight/ground testing of aircraft, missiles, munitions, and instrumentation 
  • Wind tunnels
  • Propulsion test facilities
  • HWIL, SIL, PIL labs
  • Test data analytics and forensics
  • Wargames and exercises
  • Range instrumentation
  • Test/exercise/training systems and provisioning
  • Physics-based modeling
  • End-to-end simulation 
  • Target acquisition
  • Prototype design
  • Mobile training teams
  • Hypersonics, radar technologies, and laser-based weapons systems

Axient develops and tests advanced multi-sensor fusion software, situational awareness displays, and real-time mission operations command centers for missiles, counter-unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operations, and launch applications to track vehicles in flight. Our multi-sensor data fusion systems ingest data in real-time, fuse data into improved tracking solutions, and provide operational sensor calibrations and truth data. 

Our test analysis qualifications:

  • Truth data analysis 
  • Assessing test results from flight missions and comparing them to pre-mission predictions 
  • Developing sophisticated multi-sensor data fusion (air, sea, ground, and space sensor track data) software and displays used to point sensors onto targets
  • Advanced expertise in architecting complex systems that ingest and exchange information from multiple systems across land, air, sea, and space 
  • Multi-sensor data fusion 
  • Software solutions and algorithms for real-time ingestion and fusion of sensor track data from multiple simultaneous sources

Army Integrated Fires, Rapid Capabilities and Counter-UAS Testing

Axient delivers mission analysis, course of action development, and integration of capabilities to facilitate the testing and delivery of integrated fires system of systems solutions to the warfighter. Our test management and data center teams procure, deploy, and operate foreign target missiles and launch systems and provide counter-UAS test target services, test planning, and conduct of numerous test events at the Joint Capabilities Office (JCO) C-UAS Test Site for the JCO/Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) and other Services. We manage the test site, collect test data, and conduct data processing and display.

Forensics Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, and Mobile Training Teams

Axient conducts modeling, simulation, and forensic analysis for counter-small UAS/counter-rockets, artillery, and mortar/integrated fires requirements assessments, systems, and SoS concepts test planning, and conducts test results analysis and assessment. We assess the performance of the system(s) in Combatant Command (COCOM) deployment as well as develop and deploy training for new equipment and operational impacts of emerging threats at the C-UAS Academy at Yuma Proving Ground and through Mobile Training Teams (MTTs) across the geographic combatant commands.

Axient delivers engineering expertise and solutions in the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) market including Command, Control, and Communication Battle Management (C3BM) systems. Our expertise spans multi-sensor data fusion of air, ground, sea, and overhead persistent sensor data, mission control centers for real-time C3BM target tracking, and C3BM architecture definitions to integrate sensors, weapons, and fire control systems to help protect our nation and allies against attacks.

Testing Expertise

Range Operations
Range Operations

We are embedded and experienced at the Nation's leading test ranges and facilities across our Space and Defense customers. We deliver test planning, execution, operations, and range safety services as well as innovative solutions for range displays, data processing, multi-sensor data fusion, and implementing technology upgrades and modernization activities to enhance range capabilities.

NASA Test
NASA Test

Axient partners across NASA Centers with engineering, flight planning, flight instrumentation, fabrication, integration, test, range coordination, airworthiness certification, and project management to advanced aeronautics research, flight testing, airborne science, structural loads testing, and high fidelity real-time aerospace vehicle simulations.

Docking System Test and Analysis
Docking System Test and Analysis

Axient performs loads and structural dynamic assessments of the integrated vehicle and its elements for NASA’s SLS program. Our efforts include integrated vehicle loads analysis, flight loads reconstruction, finite element modeling (FEM), hydro-elastic fluid modeling, and structural test expertise. The integrated loads analysis includes loads simulations for the rollout from the VAB to the pad, prelaunch pad stay, liftoff, boost phase flight, core stage flight, thrust oscillation, and various off-nominal events. 

Live Virtual Constructive
Live Virtual Constructive

Axient is a leader in Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) software and hardware for scene generation for system integration, testing, and system in the loop modeling and simulation. We have developed and interfaced a versatile suite of tools for radar design and analysis that includes Receiver Transmitter (R/T), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and a PC cluster to emulate parallel processing on power-PC-based DSPs. These tools are designed for efficient and cost-effective transitions between the computer lab and the hardware using in-situ software and firmware development as part of the analysis and design process.

Missile Defense Test
Missile Defense Test

Axient delivers development, evaluation, test, deployment, and management across MDA’s entire missile defense system through: test, exercise and wargames; ground and flight test; weapons systems engineering; and MBSE to expedite the development and test of systems.

Aeronautics, Wind Tunnels and Hypersonics
Aeronautics, Wind Tunnels and Hypersonics

Axient has engineering expertise in flight and ground testing of aircraft, missiles, munitions and instrumentation, wind tunnels, and propulsion test facilities. Axient’s work includes: aeronautics research; mechanical, electrical, structural, aerodynamic, thermodynamics, and related aeronautics engineering; advanced, high precision wind tunnel systems engineering expertise; and modeling for testing in all aerodynamic regimes - from subsonic through hypersonic, instrumentation and sensors, fabrication and assembly, and integration and test.

MDA Customer Highlight
MDA Customer Highlight

Axient applies artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise to the Missile Defense System (MDS) of long-term customer MDA.
Hypersonics
Hypersonics

Axient supports the US Air Force Testing Center & AEDC Hypersonic CTF in its role as the Executing Test Organization (ETO) for all USAF hypersonic programs.

NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Overview
NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Overview

Axient is a NASA SLS contractor for structural dynamics analysis, guidance, navigation, & control expertise, and system integration services and solutions.
C-UAS, Radar & Test Capabilities Overview
C-UAS, Radar & Test Capabilities Overview

Axient provides technical, logistics, and program management support services for the C-RAM System-of-Systems (SoS).