Awarding to EFSI reduces your program risk. Here's why.
EFSI has delivered flight-certified software and ground systems at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for over 25 years. Our team includes engineers who have supported the same missions through development, integration, launch, and operations — some for over a decade on a single program.
That continuity means less ramp-up, fewer inherited defects, and institutional knowledge that doesn't leave when a contract transitions. When you award to EFSI, you're not onboarding a new team — you're retaining the people who already know your mission.
Three reasons evaluators consistently rate EFSI as low-risk.
We don't just comply with NASA standards — we help projects implement them. Our engineers work directly with NPR 7150.2D (software engineering), NASA-STD-8739.8 (software assurance), and NPR 7120.5 (program management) every day.
We've developed our own software safety methodology that meets NASA requirements while maximizing value to the flight project — focused on the artifacts that directly impact mission safety: commands, telemetry, scripts, and stored sequences.
Our team includes former NASA civil servants and engineers with 10–30 years on the same GSFC missions. That institutional knowledge — the undocumented design rationale, the operational workarounds, the lessons from past anomalies — doesn't exist in any handbook.
When contracts transition, that knowledge walks out the door. With EFSI, it stays. Lower ramp-up cost, fewer rediscovered defects, and faster time to productive work.
EFSI covers the complete mission software lifecycle: flight software development, ground system operations, systems engineering, IT security, spacecraft simulation, and mission assurance.
That means one contractor who understands how flight code, ground commands, and safety analysis connect — not three separate teams with interface gaps between them.
Operational experience at enterprise scale — from flagship science missions to national weather infrastructure.
EFSI operates within ESMO (Earth Science Mission Operations) and SSMO (Space Science Mission Operations) — large-scale enterprise ground systems each containing many missions under a single operational umbrella. We provide all aspects of development, from systems engineering to deployment and maintenance, for these multi-mission environments that collectively command, monitor, and process data for dozens of NASA and NOAA spacecraft.
Our enterprise-scale experience includes the GOES-R geostationary weather satellite series and its next-generation successor GeoXO, the JPSS polar-orbiting constellation, and flagship science missions like JWST and PACE.
EFSI develops models and tools from open-source, non-proprietary codebases and specializes in transitioning them into the most stringent security environments. Our FOGI-Lake platform includes closed-edge AI engines that can be trained in open development, then deployed fully air-gapped on edge GPU hardware with no external dependencies.
This approach gives missions the benefit of modern AI — intelligent automation, natural language commanding, and autonomous telemetry analysis — without compromising data sovereignty or introducing supply-chain risk into secured networks.
Systems engineering and mission assurance for NOAA's geostationary weather infrastructure — from the current GOES-R series through the next-generation GeoXO program.
Ground system development and mission assurance for the Joint Polar Satellite System — NOAA's polar-orbiting environmental monitoring constellation.
Flight software, ground systems, and mission assurance for JWST, Roman Space Telescope, PACE, and 15+ additional missions at Goddard Space Flight Center.
A sample of current and recent mission support across flight software, ground systems, and mission assurance.
| Mission | Role | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| JWST | Flight Software, Ground Systems, SMA | FSW development, Ground System Updates (IGSS), software safety | Operational |
| Roman Space Telescope | Flight Software, SMA | cFS application development | Development |
| PACE | Ground Systems, Flight Software, Simulators | System design (ground system), mission simulation (HW + SW), key management | Operational |
| GOES-R / GeoXO | Systems Engineering, SMA | Software systems engineering, software safety | Operational |
| JPSS / LEO Ground | Ground Systems, SMA | Common ground system, polar satellite operations | Operational |
| LRO | Flight Software, Simulators | FSW maintenance, HWIL simulation | Operational |
| MMS | Flight Software | cFS-based FSW development and sustaining | Operational |
| GPM / DSCOVR | Flight Software, Simulators | FSW, high-fidelity spacecraft simulation | Operational |
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