Our Expertise
Ascendant Engineering provides systems engineering and project management services support for NASA and NOAA, ensuring the success of the next generation of geostationary, polar, and space weather satellite systems.
Systems Engineering
Our team provides NOAA and NASA with system engineering services focused on satellite ground system development, implementation, and operations. We have expertise across the entire development life cycle and have played key roles in requirements development; system design; integration and test; transition to operations; and recapitalization.
Trusted Support
The Ascendant Engineering team prides itself on being a trusted source for non-biased information to our customer teams. We maintain strict avoidance of organizational or personal conflicts of interest and continually work to build lasting relationships with our customer partners.
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Our team works hand-in-hand with our customer counterparts to solve challenging problems. We tackle obstacles head on, while recognizing our role within the organization. We provide recommendations and support customer decisions to maximize mission success.
Project Management
The Ascendant Engineering team understands the interplay between cost, schedule, and technical requirements in developing major satellite systems. We use our risk management expertise and understanding of the customer environment to support customer trade-off decisions and establish off-ramps to maintain programmatic baselines.​
Strategic Planning
Our team understands that our customers face strategic and portfolio-level challenges in determining how to migrate to future architectures. We look at the​ entire technical enterprise in order to achieve value-driven decisions and provide quality recommendations to our Government customer counterparts.
NAICS Codes
Ascendant Engineering supports activities under the following NAICS codes:
541330
541611
541690
541715
541990
Key Customers
Ascendant Engineering staff supports senior leaders at NOAA and NASA in key operational meteorological satellite programs. Our focus on the satellite meteorology community makes us able to understand the challenges of the technical and programmatic environment and recommend solutions to address them.