Cimarron began business on January 1, 1981.
Our principal business interest was to provide all phases of the system and software development life cycle. The first product development we participated in was under contract to IBM, where we assisted in the development of IBM's Real-time Energy Management System offering to Arizona Public Service. This base contract and follow-ons with both IBM and APS lasted for 15 years, encompassing not only energy management products but plant management and major platform conversions.
In 1986 we began actively marketing to NASA, leveraging our niche expertise in real-time control systems gained in the utility market sector into work in Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. By 1989, most of our real-time development was on behalf of the NASA.
In 1991 we expanded our business base to provide turnkey computer and network facility and operations support, building a more complete service offering to our information technology customers. We also developed a hardware design and analysis division that provided an astronaut training mockup of the Shuttle Bay, a mockup of the equipment racks for the Space Station, an information kiosk for Space Center Houston and some concept studies for robotic automation of tasks onboard the Space Station.
In 1997, Cimarron developed its first shrink-wrapped commercial software product suite. This suite provides strategic planning support to schools and school districts. The products implemented the Texas and Arkansas state-mandated planning standards. We also offered training and instructional support on various educational topics surrounding the school planning processes.
In 1999, Cimarron became the fourth largest subcontractor under the NASA Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC) awarded to Lockheed Martin. Cimarron was responsible for Hardware and Network, Reconfiguration, Maintenance, Flight Operations and Software Development of the Mission Control Center (MCC) and the Integrated Planning System at the Johnson Space Center. The MCC is an integrated ground facility providing command, control, and communications capabilities critical to the U.S. Space Initiative. In 2004 (CSOC) was "un"-consolidated and Cimarron, as a partner to Lockheed Martin, was sole-sourced the NASA/JSC Mission Support Operations Contract (MSOC). Under this contract Cimarron continued to execute the Maintenance and Operations (M&O) mission of the MCC ground operations. In 2009 this work transitioned to the Facilities Development and Operations Contract (FDOC), where NASA has consolidated the entire human space flight ground systems infrastructure development and support into one contract. We are once again a major teammate of Lockheed Martin on this work.
In 2000, Cimarron won the Boeing Operations Support Contract (BOSC). Cimarron’s role was based on its heritage as a reputable software development company and was tasked to provide support to the International Space Station (ISS) Software & Avionics and provide the M&O of the ISS - Software Development Integration Laboratory (SDIL). In 2004, Cimarron successfully won a re-compete and the contract is now known as the Engineering Technical Support Services (ETSS) Contract. This contract enables Cimarron to perform work outside the domain of the ISS for tasks such as Constellation or Commercial Aircraft.
Other significant Human Space Flight subcontract wins include the Space Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade (CAU) where Cimarron provided leadership in the software engineering of the shuttle abort flight management and enhanced caution warning systems, and the Checkout Assembly and Payload Processing Services (CAPPS) where we wrote the Software Safety Plan and executed tasks for Software Quality Assurance. Additionally, we recently were awarded the CEV - Orion contract as a teammate to Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
