Engineering Solutions
Leidos is an essential part of the NASA and commercial space engineering team.
We provide engineering design, development, fabrication, testing, analyses, certification and final integration to space flight standards. Our work supports multiple vehicle standards for integration, safety and operation aboard the ISS, Orion, SpaceX Dragon, NG Cygnus and soon to be Sierra Space Dream Chaser, Boeing CST-100, Gateway, HLS and more.
Our engineering team builds products and provides services for interior pressurized and exterior/exposed placement. Our services include support for evolutionary design, customization of existing designs, sustaining engineering and even custom products.
Our processes are based on thousands of items that we have certified for human space flight over the last 50 years.
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Potable water dispenser What we do today
- Soft Goods, Crew Clothing, & Provisioning
- Developing spaceflight hardware
- Provide project manager, mechanical and electrical design, systems engineering, and engineering analysis
- Fabricate electrical and mechanical components and systems in house with our certified technicians
- Develop and fabricate flight crew equipment hardware and unpressurized extravehicular hardware for spacecraft systems
How we enable tomorrow
- Designing and developing for harsh environments of intravehicular and extravehicular space, to support medical, human health, and flight crew for NASA’s MIR; Space Shuttle; ISS; and Exploration programs such as Orion, HLS, Gateway, and EHP
- Supporting life and operations on-orbit—Provide the on-orbit crew members with hardware and equipment (e.g., Flight Crew Equipment), as the prime contractor
- Provide turn-key project management, engineering, and manufacturing services to Commercial Low Earth Orbit and Exploration programs
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What we do today
Digital Camera Thermal Garment - Equipping the astronauts
- Provide clothing and personal use equipment, as prime contractor, to support on-orbit operations
- Customize crew provisioning for each mission and track the provision of consumables for supply chain management, through project management and technician support
- Design, build, and modify clothing, suits, sleeping bags, and soft-goods (e.g., cargo bags, kit pouches, thermal garments), engaging our soft-goods technician
How we enable tomorrow
D6 Nikon Camera TMG Prototype - Outfitting for the future—Provide end-to-end, mission-specific services for outfitting the government and commercial Astronaut Corps with clothing and tools to live in low earth orbit and beyond for exploration
- Bring our hardware teams with knowledge, developed processes, innovative IT tools, and lessons learned over 30 years, for certifying soft-goods and crew provisioning items for on-orbit use
- Equipping the astronauts
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Crew audio and personal laptop What we do today
- Perform market research, select audio/video (AV) and computing hardware, and perform certification
- Delivered four generations of laptops and peripherals to NASA Human Spaceflight Programs—systems, integration, test, and certification
- Develop and deliver digital audio/video equipment—digital cameras, HD video systems, audio/video encoders, and peripheral hardware
Earth observation with ISS camera system How we enable tomorrow
- Research and manufacture the next generation of cutting-edge computing, media, and audio-video equipment to incorporate the latest technologies for use in space craft operations
- Currently certifying the next generation of laptops for NASA’s programs and can seamlessly port that expertise and product lessons learned to support other commercial and government programs for human spaceflight
- Developing and certifying NASA’s next-generation camera system for space and lunar exploration
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ISS Locker Finite Element Model (FEM) What we do today
- Standing up to hard use-Going by the numbers
- Perform engineering analysis for EVA and IVA structural hardware and soft-goods containers
- Perform stress analysis, structural finite element analysis (linear and non-linear), fracture/fatigue analysis, design coupled loads analysis (DCLA), and verified couple loads analysis (VCLA)
- Perform thermal analysis, material analysis, and mass properties calculations for EVA and IVA hardware certification
How we enable tomorrow
- Bring over 30 years of developing spaceflight hardware for medical, human health, and flight crew use
- Design for the harsh environments of intravehicular and extravehicular space for NASA’s MIR, Space Shuttle, and ISS programs
- As the prime contractor, provide the on-orbit crew members with hardware and equipment (e.g., Flight Crew Equipment)
- Provide turn-key project management, engineering, and manufacturing services to Commercial Low Earth Orbit and Exploration programs
- Standing up to hard use-Going by the numbers
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Locker prototype What we do today
- Making it fast - Supporting rapid prototyping, proof-of-concept, mock-up, and production of flight-certified hardware through our 3D printing services
- Provide custom manufacturing of plastics, foams, metals, and unique materials to human space flight
- Support large-scale and true-scale hardware mockup design and development for demonstrations, evaluations, human factors, and hardware design assessments
- Have designed, produced, and flown thousands of custom stowage solutions, using foam and custom flight support equipment
3D Print valve body How we enable tomorrow
- Paving the way by researching and using the latest materials and manufacturing techniques
- Ensure the safe travel of NASA hardware and payloads to the international space station to support the latest research and advancements
- Continue to design and develop rapid hardware solutions to on-orbit needs and anomalies across NASA programs
- Making it fast - Supporting rapid prototyping, proof-of-concept, mock-up, and production of flight-certified hardware through our 3D printing services
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EVA cable harness for VIPER lunar rover What we do today
- Design, develop, manufacture, test, certify, and sustain electronics systems—e.g., 28V and 120V power supplies, DC-to-DC convertors, and 120V serial buses for the ISS and Exploration programs
- Provide custom and commercial-off-the-shelf power and data cables for IVA and EVA
- Execute custom fabrication of electronic systems—twisted pair, shielding, coaxial, and connector pin-out manufacturing in house
- Perform through-hole soldering, surface mount technology fabrication, cable harness and crimp, polymeric application, and ESD Level 2, using certified technicians
120V serial bus How we enable tomorrow
- Powering for the long term
- Use electronic and cable harness design/manufacturing processes and lessons learned to implement across ISS and Exploration programs
- Currently working with multiple commercial providers for delivery of electronics and cables in support of the HLS and EVA programs
- Design, develop, manufacture, test, certify, and sustain electronics systems—e.g., 28V and 120V power supplies, DC-to-DC convertors, and 120V serial buses for the ISS and Exploration programs
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Robotics support What we do today
- Labeling the pieces - Meeting unique labeling requirements
- Support flight hardware development, trainers, vehicles, and EVA—Leidos is the largest producer of flight and non-flight labels, decals, and placards for human space flight
- Provide operational nomenclature, inventory management tracking, and procurement through the ISS hub—Leidos’ eLabel tool suite
- Meet unique requirements as the material experts for labels, decals, and placards for use in harsh space flight environments
- Produce, encode, and deliver the Radio Frequency Identifications (RFID) labels for ISS and new NASA spaceflight programs
- Support flight hardware development, trainers, vehicles, and EVA—Leidos is the largest producer of flight and non-flight labels, decals, and placards for human space flight
Payload specific and IMS RFID How we enable tomorrow
- Supply decals and placards across NASA and international partner vehicles in the ISS, Artemis, Gateway, HLS, and EHP programs
- Pioneer the production of new inventory management and RFID label technologies across the Gateway and commercial programs
- Lead the way in producing EVA labels and docking/location targets to support the addition of new space vehicles and programs
- Labeling the pieces - Meeting unique labeling requirements
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Training dashboard What we do today
- Feeding in all the information-Expanding server and storage
- Provide expandable information technology infrastructure (residing in WSTF and Houston under NASA network) to support server and storage capacity for many NASA program applications
- Integrate data from external applications, making CMC the key in providing near real-time information to our users
- Input human intelligence into our Decision Engine, using our custom packing tool, to output cargo layout drawings and digital images of packed bags
- Provide a curated Manifest Listing, using our custom manifest tool, to feed Orion/Exploration programs data into CMC Tool Suite
- Develop software and firmware for flight hardware for on-ground and on-orbit health tracking
How we enable tomorrow
- Bringing new applications to life
- CMC implemented a cloud environment to communicate with non-NASA (NDC) users
- Leidos’ IT expertise is bringing new opportunities for us to manage their infrastructures, design, and development of new application
From preparing astronauts for space travel to conducting scientific research and experiments in zero-gravity Leidos works to apply mission understanding and technical expertise to each project.
Leveraging our core capabilities
Our expertise is founded in a number of our core capabilities. Find out how our broad-ranging experience can be applied to solve our space customer’s toughest challenges.
