DESE Research is a Huntsville defense engineering contractor whose stack pairs requirements and MBSE tooling (IBM DOORS, Jama Connect, SysML) with hardened Linux infrastructure (RHEL, Ansible, SCAP, ACAS, Tenable), the profile of a team supporting government programs under strict security compliance. Engineering-dominated hiring is accelerating, aimed at GMD system integration and a new line of AI red-teaming and threat-modeling work for warfighting systems.
DESE Research, Inc. is a privately held, veteran-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, founded in 1982. The company provides engineering, scientific and technical support to government and industry customers across defense, energy, space and environmental domains. Core capabilities span systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software development and electrical engineering. It employs 51–200 people and hires in the United States.
DESE Research uses IBM DOORS, Jama Connect, SysML and MATLAB for systems engineering, Python, C++ and JavaScript for development, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes for delivery, and RHEL, Ansible, Tenable and ACAS for secure infrastructure.
Current work includes GMD system integration and a GMD element digital model, AI risk assessment, threat modeling and red-teaming for defense systems, sustainment of an existing software baseline, and tooling for space hardware programs.
DESE Research is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, and hires in the United States. It was founded in 1982 and has 51–200 employees.
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