Capabilities

We know defence

Swordfish and its staff have extensive experience across the Land, Air, Maritime, Joint, Cyber and Electronic Warfare domains. We have provided cutting-edge Science and Technology (S&T) support to major defence capability research, development, acquisition and sustainment programs.

Our defence subject matter expertise includes:

End-to-end modelling and simulation

Guided weapons systems including propulsion, aero, guidance, fuzing, and terminal effects
Comms, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare systems
Land, Air, Maritime and Space platforms
Electronic and Cyber warfare
Wide-area surveillance and reconnaissance

Test and evaluation

Post-experimental data analysis
Science and Technology support to Operational Test & Evaluation
Hardware-in-the-loop and digital signal injection
Trial Management at locations such as Woomera Test Range
Operational Analysis

Capability trade-off studies

System Engineering analysis and decomposition
Design, parameterization and optimization of simulation-based trade-off studies

Above-the-line consulting

Consultation with stakeholders and ADF for requirements definition
Shaping and execution of strategy
Project governance and contracting management

We're Software Driven

Advanced Software Engineering is a core capability and enabler that underpins all Modelling, Simulation, Integration and Analysis capabilities.

Our teams have expertise in:

Distributed Microservice Architectures

Docker Containerization (e.g. Docker Compose)
Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes or Hashicorp Nomad)
Pub/Sub Messaging Systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, MQTT or Apache Kafka)
Cloud-Native computing (Azure, AWS)

Modern languages and toolstacks

C++, Java, Python, C#, F#
Matlab, Simulink
HTML, Javascript, css, React JS
Gitlab, Bitbucket, Jira, Azure Boards, Atlassian suite

Best practice engineering processes

Agile Scrum / Kanban engineering process
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery / Automation (DevOps)
Security-first design and engineering process (DevSecOps)
Test-Driven design
Object-Oriented Design Patterns and System Thinking

A range of platforms and operating systems

Windows 10 & 11 as well as legacy versions
Android, Linux distributions
Intel NUC, Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson

AI, Data Science and Machine Learning

Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
Intelligent Agents and Reinforcement Learning
Genetic Algorithms, Decision Trees, Linear Regression, SVM, Neural Networks
Predictive and Classification models

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Advanced computer graphics using DirectX, OpenGL
Unreal and Unity game engine development
Helmet mounted displays and immersive projection systems
Haptic I/O devices

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