A Crawl, Walk, Run Approach to Co-Designing Communications Software and Hardware: A Case Study
Cheryl Blomberg OrKeefe, Terrence Gibbons, Rahul Amin, Chayil Timmerman · 2018
This paper presents a case study on an approach for the simultaneous development of hardware and software in a complex system-of-systems. Our process uses a crawl, walk, run approach to handle the different schedules and complexity inherent with both hardware and software development cycles. This methodology led to successful flight tests to demonstrate the use of airborne pods as communication relays.