Programme documentation, supplier flow-downs, export-control screening support and certification evidence, automated inside controlled environments.
Industry overview
Every artefact is controlled and every partner is flowed-down. Programme documentation, supplier certifications and export screenings each carry manual assembly whose errors are compliance events.
Aerospace and defense work multiplies controls: quality standards, export regimes, customer flow-downs and configuration discipline all apply at once, and each generates evidence obligations that today are met by hand.
Supplier management concentrates it, hundreds of suppliers, each owing certifications, each chased by email, each lapse a programme risk.
Common challenges
If three or more are true, the rest of this page is about your operation.
How we help
AI, cloud, cybersecurity, hardware and programme delivery, one integrated bench, each practice applied to how aerospace & defense actually operates.
Agents for the programme’s documentation gravity: supplier-quality document chasing and first-article package assembly, configuration-status accounting support in PLM, contract-deliverable (CDRL) tracking against the schedule, and export-screening workflow support with every disposition logged and a person on every determination.
Environments built for controlled data: architectures designed to the handling requirements of export-controlled technical data from the first diagram, enclave patterns for programmes that need them, and data flows documented for your empowered official.
Controls aligned to defense-industrial-base expectations: implementation mapped to NIST 800-171’s families, evidence maintained continuously rather than assembled at assessment time, and flow-down requirements pushed to your own suppliers with verification.
Compute for classified-adjacent and production environments: engineering workstations for the CAD and analysis toolchain, shop-floor terminals for work instructions and stamps, provenance documented for supply-chain requirements, sanitisation documented at end of life.
Delivery in the programme’s own language: integrated master schedules, earned-value reporting where the contract requires it, risk registers that are worked rather than filed, and gate reviews prepared so the customer’s programme office sees discipline.
Where we start
Deliberately mundane. The impressive-sounding workflow is rarely the one worth doing first.
If you run one of these, this is the conversation.
Our solutions
What happens today, what changes, and what to watch for as each workflow is automated.
The operating picture
Contract requirements flow down into specs, drawings and CDRLs.
Agent layer
Tracks every deliverable against the contract schedule and flags the ones at risk while there is still float.
Work proceeds under configuration control across a supplier tier.
Agent layer
Chases supplier documentation, certs, first articles, test reports, and keeps the receiving-inspection queue fed.
Quality records and configuration status must match, exactly.
Agent layer
Reconciles as-built records against the engineering baseline and surfaces every discrepancy for disposition.
Acceptance, DD-250s and data packages gate revenue.
Agent layer
Assembles delivery packages complete, every certificate, every signature, before the customer inspector asks.
Platforms and systems
The systems of record this sector runs on, and why each one matters to a deployment.
The constraint
Deployment happens inside your controlled environment, under your access rules.
Controlled technical data does not leave the boundary, so the automation comes to the data: deployed inside the customer environment, under customer identity and access management, with citizenship and clearance constraints on who at VSI touches what handled explicitly in the engagement design.
Evidence permanence is the second constraint: records may be examined years later, so retrievability is designed in.
Compliance
The regimes your organisation operates under, and what each one constrains in a deployment. We design to these from the first architecture diagram, they describe your obligations rather than our credentials, and VSI's own position publishes only once it is substantiated.
Success stories
Published engagements from adjacent sectors carry the same disciplines, programme governance, systems integration, workflow automation, that a aerospace & defense deployment draws on. Every figure publishes under a named attestation.
The first month
What actually happens, week by week. Note where the design conversations sit, before the build, not after it.
Baseline one supplier-certification population and one audit-evidence domain, inside your environment.
Automate the certification chase and screening-record assembly for one programme.
Review lapse-rate and assembly-time movement with quality and trade compliance.
Next step
Mission workflows, security posture and how the work gets contracted.
No preparation required and nothing to install. Bring the workflow that costs you the most hours; leave with a view of what we would automate first, what it depends on, and what we would not touch.
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