CPI is a small business of about 40 employees founded in 1984 that provides professional scientific and information technology (IT) services to government organizations and prime contractors. CPI performs a broad range of scientific services to understand and describe the Earth’s environment from its surface to outer space, the objects in orbit, as well as the IT services required to support such activities. Scientific Expertise * Remote sensing (EO/IR, microwave, SAR) * EO/IR observables of atmosphere / clouds / terrain * Atmospheric radiative transfer * Charged particle transport / auroral physics / space weather * Atmospheric internal / gravity wave physics * Atmosphere and ocean modeling * Ionospheric physics / radio wave propagation * Operational satellite ground data analysis systems Software Engineering Expertise * Full life-cycle software development * Distributed scientific computing: CORBA, TENA, ESMF, MPICH * Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation architectures * Agile development practices * Semantic sensor web development: OGC, OASIS * Requirements analyses and verification R&D Capabilities * Real-time modeling and simulation * Ionospheric research and global ionospheric specification * Multi-physics model development and application for the Earth sciences * Radio propagation modeling for operational applications * Algorithm development for remote sensing applications * Requirements specification and management * Space Situational Awareness (SSA) * Requirements analysis and verification