United Space Alliance develops applications used by flight controllers in support of daily mission operations. We also create and maintain user software for environmental, electrical, robotics, communications, attitude and control, trajectory systems and facility support systems.

The use of Intelligent Telemetry Monitoring assists the operator in trending and event-case analyses. These user applications are functional across multiple facilities and mission phases, provide consistency for the user, simplify training, reduce the overall application inventory and reduce overall life cycle costs.

We use industry standards for Service Oriented Architecture, as accepted by the Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards. We support a variety of software architecture layers, including:

• Presentation and client/user layers
• Application services, common services, and the protocol services layers
• Technology infrastructure (integration layer and infrastructure services layer)

This framework isolates applications from each other and from the communications infrastructure, thereby enabling rapid integration.

USA's processes are CMMI compliant and tailored with streamlined change control methods. We use one change control process across the full spectrum of user applications activities - from large-scale, major new development projects to small-scale, minor maintenance jobs for correcting discrepancies.