Systems engineering for technology transfer in defense, intelligence, and homeland security.
Ascendant Concepts, LLC is a Virginia-registered systems engineering consultancy established in 2013 to apply systems engineering practices to technology transfer projects. It specializes in business domain expertise, strategic and mission definition artifacts, and operational context development for SBIR, STTR, and university technology transfer programs in the defense, intelligence, and homeland security domains.
Roger M. RosewallManaging Member
Provides systems engineering consulting with an emphasis on concept development and iterative refinement throughout the system development lifecycle.
Iteratively refines concepts of operations, user needs, and stakeholder expectations throughout system development.
Drafts strategic, mission, and system concepts to define high-level program direction and reduce risk.
Develops operational context, including Concept of Operations (ConOps) and Operational Concept (OpsCon) documents.
Establishes technical foundations, system architecture layouts, and interface concepts.
Supports SBIR, STTR, and university technology transfer programs by providing business domain expertise and systems engineering documentation for defense and intelligence projects.
Provides systems engineering documentation and domain expertise for SBIR and STTR projects.
Supports university labs in moving technology from research environments into defense and national security applications.
Supports software-intensive system projects using Military Standard 498 Data Item Descriptions, including software development plans, requirements specifications, design descriptions, test plans, and transition documentation.
Authoring Software Development Plans, Software Test Plans, and Software Transition Plans following military standard formats.
Drafting Software Requirements Specifications, Interface Requirements Specifications, and Software Design Descriptions.
Defense · Intelligence & National Security · Research Facilities
Defense · Client: FedTech National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) and the University of Hawaii Applied Research Laboratory
Provided systems engineering support, business domain expertise, and development of strategic, mission definition, and operational context artifacts.
Defense · Client: Worldwide Interoperability Solutions and Capabilities, George Mason University C4I Center, InCadence, and Geographic Services, Inc.
Delivered systems engineering support and developed strategic and operational context artifacts.
Research Facilities · Client: Genlantis, Inc. and the George Washington University Office of Technology Transfer
Provided systems engineering support, business domain expertise, and development of strategic and operational context artifacts for rapid treatment solutions.
Intelligence & National Security · Client: Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC
Systems engineering support and development of operational context and mission definition artifacts for intelligence analysis.