SwRI engineers and scientists evaluate, develop, deploy, and verify software systems for the government and commercial clients.

The Information Systems Engineering Department of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) evaluates, develops, deploys, and verifies software systems for the government and commercial clients. The staff has extensive experience in the design, development, deployment, testing, and maintenance of large, complex software systems.

Rigorous Development Process

For the benefit of our clients, information systems engineering projects adhere to a rigorous, standardized development process beginning with an analysis of the client’s current business model and concluding with system deployment. Depending on the needs of the client, this process has optional entry and exit paths and includes services such as:

• Business process re-engineering

• Requirements elicitation and analysis

• Infrastructure and architecture specification

• Software design and development

• Integration and acceptance testing

Systems Development Process

Our proven systems engineering process has been appraised at Level 5 within the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration^® (CMMI^®)—a distinction held by only a small number of American companies and even fewer applied research and development institutions.
 

	The Information Systems Engineering Department is focused in all aspects of Information Systems from analysis through deployment.
	Schematic of typical SwRI-developed data warehouse architecture
	Example of SwRI-developed data and map-based visualization.

Information Systems Engineering Experience

Information systems engineering at SwRI provides definition, systems engineering, design, development, testing, and life-cycle support for a broad range of information systems applications. Technologies applied to projects span numerous domains and include:

• Service-oriented architectures

• Systems integration

• Leading-edge database technology

• Graphical user interfaces

• Communications and networking

• Data encryption

• Security

• Object-oriented technologies

The Information Systems Engineering staff have applied a variety of technologies for both government and commercial clients, involving:

• Oil and gas exploration and production
• Medical systems
• Database and data warehouse technology
• Enterprise security technologies
• Data and map-based visualization
• Natural language technology

For more information about information systems engineering capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Steven H. Rodgers at srodgers@swri.org or (210) 522-3772, or Harvey D. Watson, Ph.D. at hwatson@swri.org or (210) 522-2668. We can offer you insights about how to specify the most effective approach to solving your software engineering problems.

®CMMI is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.