Aerospace & Defense
Engineering for uncompromising safety
In aerospace and defense, getting requirements wrong has real consequences. We help organizations deploy the IBM ELM suite to manage those requirements from concept through certification, with the traceability that airworthiness and safety standards actually demand.
Our work covers DOORS Next, EWM, and ETM configured for the specific regulatory environment your program operates in, not a generic out-of-the-box setup.
Core competencies
- DO-178C and DO-254 compliance workflows
- Requirements management and decomposition in DOORS Next
- Automated traceability across hardware, software, and systems tiers
- Risk and safety analysis linked to the requirements model
DO-178C, ARP4754A, and ARP4761
DO-178C compliance isn’t a checkbox — it’s a set of objectives around bidirectional traceability (requirements to design to code to test), configuration management, and verification independence that have to be demonstrable to a certification authority, not just true in principle. We configure ELM’s link and baseline structures so that the traceability matrix your DER or DAR actually asks for comes out of the tool, instead of being reconstructed by hand at the worst possible time in the program.
ARP4754A governs how systems-level requirements decompose and how safety-critical design decisions get justified. ARP4761’s safety assessment process (FHA, PSSA, SSA) has to trace back into those same requirements and into the DOORS Next model. Keeping those views consistent as the design changes is where most tool configurations quietly fail. A requirement shifts at the systems level, the safety assessment doesn’t update, and the gap doesn’t surface until a certification review or a DAL re-evaluation forces a reconciliation. We build ELM environments where that linkage is structural, not manual.
