Engineering Services

Our customers have some of the most challenging problems and have a shortage of personnel to tackle them. Critical Frequency Design serves the defense community with design expertise in rugged electronic and electro-optic product development. Our team has decades of experience in developing and delivering solutions for the most demanding defense platforms. Combine our experience with the speed and agility of a small business and we offer next generation solutions on time, every time.

Engineering Services

Project Management

Project Management is a critical piece of any pursuit, development or manufacturing activity. Our Project Management Professional certified personnel are industry proven managing complex activities exceeding $100M. Schedule development, EVMS, and Risk Management are foundational practices at Critical Frequency Design. We specialize in Open Systems and MBSE.

System’s Engineering

The foundations of a product are in the requirements and system development. Our System’s Engineering approach is based upon decades of experience developing complex systems for the DoD. CFD also employs Model Based Systems Engineering utilizing MagicDraw®.

Electrical Engineering

Our electrical engineers are industry experts in Analog, Digital and RF designs. Our experience ranges from implementing embedded processors, FPGAs and high-speed DDR memory. Our experience in implementing Ethernet, PCIe, USB and JTAG in compact high-density PCBs allow for enhanced SWaP-c solutions.

Project Management

System’s Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

The demanding environments cause many challenges for deploying next generation solutions. Our mechanical engineers are well versed in designing and qualifying solutions that exceed MIL-STD-180 environments utilizing SolidWorks® CAD tools and FEA. We specialize in developing solutions for Open Systems Architectures including OpenVPX and VITA 48.

Software Engineering

Our software engineers can support you in both application and embedded design. We can support multiple operating systems including Linux, LynxOS, VxWorks and IntegrityOS. Software languages range from C/C++/C#, Java/JS, Perl and Python.

Test and Validation

Test and Validation tends to be a stressful and costly portion of many projects. Have our team support your project through this complex stage of the development. Our personnel have qualified many products through MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and VITA 47 tests to name a few. Our experience in automated test development using LabVIEW® and custom software solutions ease your validation and eventual production test costs. Our team can support digital, analog, RF and fiberoptic interfaces.