CPI is a small business of 40 employees founded in 1984 that provides professional scientific and information technology (IT) services to government organizations and prime contractors. CPI performs a broad range of scientific services to understand and describe the Earth’s environment from its surface to outer space, the objects in orbit, as well as the IT services required to support such activities. CPI’s key areas of technical expertise include:
Scientific Expertise
* Remote sensing (EO/IR, microwave, SAR)
* EO/IR observables of atmosphere / clouds / terrain
* Atmospheric radiative transfer
* Charged particle transport / auroral physics / space weather
* Atmospheric internal / gravity wave physics
* Atmosphere and ocean modeling
* Ionospheric physics / radio wave propagation
* Operational satellite ground data analysis systems
Software Engineering Expertise
* Full life-cycle software development
* Distributed scientific computing: CORBA, TENA, ESMF, MPICH
* Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation architectures
* Agile development practices
* Semantic sensor web development: OGC, OASIS
* Requirements analyses and verification
Specialties
Remote sensing (EO/IR, microwave), Atmospheric radiative transfer, Atmosphere and ocean modeling, Ionospheric physics / radio wave propagation, Space Weather, Operational satellite ground data analysis systems, Scientific software development