Capabilities
Services
Skyfield engineers solve mission-critical problems for defense and commercial partners.
What we do
High-fidelity modeling and simulation
- Create digital twin with physics-based flight dynamics models, refined with flight-test system identification.
- Monte Carlo and mission-focused simulation support optimization, autonomy tuning, and validation before flight.
- The same models back training, rehearsal, and root-cause analysis when issues show up in the field.
Aircraft design
Prototype aircraft from concept through flight demonstration, using performance and stability analysis plus CFD and potential-flow trade studies.
Embedded software development
COTS and custom hardware.
- Drivers and firmware from userspace to bare metal
- Sensor buses: CAN, I2C, SPI, UART, USB
- ARM/Jetson/AVR/STM32 and Xilinx/Zynq platforms
- Linux builds (Wind River, Yocto) and GPU edge processing
Payload integrations
Payloads integrated across many platforms.
Vision systems
EO/IR, targeting, advanced sensor processing
IFF transponders
Civil and military Mode 5 and Mode S, ADS-B
Data links
Telemetry, payload data, and control
SIGINT
Custom payloads for situational awareness
Unmanned vehicle control
- VSMs for STANAG 4586 and MAVLink
- Sensor-driven autonomy in contested environments
- GPS/APNT switching for resilient navigation
- Custom ArduPilot and Lua mission logic
Application and UI development
- C# / .NET applications and plugins
- Web and Python user interfaces
- Human-factors UX to reduce operator workload
- Mission Planner, GCS, and aircraft/payload interfaces
Software design and management
- OMS, FACE, and MOSA/SOSA architectures
- Program-of-record delivery
- Process consulting, configuration management, and baselines
- Containers, CI/CD, virtualization, and STIG hardening
Supporting rapid prototypes to long-lived programs.