A Center of Excellence for Peerless R&D
The Peerless Innovation Center (PIC) serves as the company’s S&T center of excellence
Leveraging 20+ years of customer-first engineering services, the Peerless Innovation Center aims to advance high-end R&D technologies and generate differentiating capabilities for Peerless and their customers through research, development, and execution of cutting-edge technology programs.
The PIC primarily performs externally-funded contract research and development (CRAD) work for customers in the Defense, Energy and Space S&T organizations.
Core capabilities include:
- Multi-spectral Sensor Engineering
- Electronic Warfare
- Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR)
- Pod/Platform Integration/modernization (fifth-generation fighters)
- Modeling & Simulation
- Engineering/Physics models
- Mission-level Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
- Digital System Engineering & Transformation
- Software Modernization
- Digital Systems Engineering/Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)) processes, tools, and Digital Thread
- MBSE to auto-generate flight test plans for NASA autonomy testing
- Software Engineering/DevSecOps
- Micro-service in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Agile CI/CD
- Collaborative workspace dev environment
- Production Env Mirror
- C, C++, Java, FORTRAN, COBOL, JavaScript, Python, LabVIEW, Data Access Language, Structured Query Language (SQL), Visual Basic, and VBScript MATLAB, LabVIEW, Oracle’s Virtual Box, Abaqus; and operating systems: Linux/Unix, Macintosh, Microsoft, and RHEL clone
- Automated regression tests, automated acceptance testing, and human-in-the-loop testing
- Airworthiness
- Independent airworthiness assessments
- Experimental structures R&D, including thermal, mechanical, and acoustic/vibration conditions
- Nuclear Sustainment & Effects
- Modeling & Simulation of nuclear effects
- Test & Evaluation support
- Stockpile modernization
- Systems engineering technical support, aircraft integration, test and evaluation, logistics, risk management, T&E logistics