Cimarron’s number one core competency is real-time systems engineering and command and control systems. Our primary market is in the support environment of Human Space Flight. We have been continuously and intimately involved with Human Space Flight since 1988, devising software and control systems for the onboard Shuttle, Shuttle payloads, for the Ground Control and Training Systems at Johnson Space Center, for the International Space Station avionics suite. We are now involved in the Orion Vehicle development that will replace the Shuttle’s manned capability, the Ground Systems that will support the Constellation Program, and the commercial efforts to develop capability to dock with the International Space Station to provide resupply and crew exchange.
Cimarron's performance was recognized by NASA when they selected Cimarron as the 2004 NASA Woman Owned Business of the Year and JSC's Subcontractor of the Year in 2002 and 2003. In Mission Control and the Training simulator environments, Cimarron is providing sustaining engineering of the baseline Mission Control Center software, sustainment of the Station and Shuttle real-time flight simulation environments, all computer infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, flight operations support of the front-room space vehicle control activities, and systems engineering and development needed to move the current control and training infrastructures to the new Constellation Program environment. The new environment will be a mix of short and long duration flights at low earth orbit and deep space manned and unmanned flight to neighboring moons and planets.
For the International Space Station we have developed environmental controls, life support systems for the Station’s Control Nodes (the part of the Station that mates and delivers life support gases and supplies to the various modules that are tacked on to make the entire Space Station), support flight qualification of all flight articles, and provide the testing infrastructure sustainment and test support services for flight qualification testing.
For Constellation we are actively involved in the ground-up development of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and the Constellation Training Facility. We also are developing the control center and Space Station control interfaces for the Commercial Orbital Transportation System (COTS) that is planned to supply the International Space Station once the Shuttle is decommissioned.
DKI Consulting, a subsidiary of Cimarron, is leading the charge for the information architecture for the entire Constellation program called the Integrated Collaborative Environment (ICE). This effort focuses on product data management and product lifecycle management (PDM&PLM), tracking all the program deliverables of the various Constellation pieces as they are implemented (drawings, code, contracting data, parts inventory, logistics).
