Vienna, VA – April 9, 2025
ENSCO Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract to support Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) activities for a Common Flight Safety System (cFSS) being developed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Armament Directorate located at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida. The cFSS solution is being developed to increase efficiency and reduce cost and risk across the Weapons Enterprise.
The USAF’s cFSS solution will provide qualified miniaturized components enabling adaptability to a wide range of weapon categories and form factors compatible with modern integration practices. The effort will support existing test range infrastructure and provide the basis for a complete Flight Safety System solution. This family of components will simplify Flight Termination System design and range tracking for accelerated weapons testing. As part of the certification process, ENSCO’s IV&V support will address the cFSS Autonomous Flight Termination Unit – Miniaturized (AFTU-M) wrapper software and the Programmable Logic Device (PLD) designs.
“This opportunity will allow ENSCO to continue to demonstrate our safety systems development and test capabilities for both our military and commercial aerospace customers, as well as grow our pedigree within the critical verification phases of Flight Termination Systems,” said Kevin Pruett, ENSCO’s Executive Vice President of the Mission Systems Group.
For more than five decades, ENSCO has consistently proven its ability to deliver cost-effective mission success throughout the aerospace and avionics industries. As a research and safety-critical systems engineering company, ENSCO has integrated its extensive knowledge and experience to provide reliable services to its customers with specific focus in Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I), IV&V, Airworthiness Safety and Security, Cybersecurity, Modeling and Simulation (M&S), and Weather Forecasting.
ENSCO’s technical and certification knowledge covers expertise in planning, executing, analyzing data, and reporting of IV&V of Autonomous Flight Termination Units (AFTUs) for customers ranging from NASA and the United States Space Force (USSF) to commercial launch providers. ENSCO performed the initial IV&V for the Core Autonomous Safety Software (CASS) and then developed the reference architecture and wrapper software for NASA’s AFTU. Since then, ENSCO has been engaged with multiple companies seeking IV&V of their specific wrapper software.
ABOUT ENSCO
ENSCO, Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiaries, represent a more than $180 million international technology enterprise with 750+ employees headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area. For more than 50 years, ENSCO has been providing leading-edge engineering, science and advanced technology solutions to governments and private industries worldwide. ENSCO operates in the aerospace, national security, and surface transportation sectors. ENSCO serves customers in cutting-edge, mission-critical environments where safety, security, reliability, and resilience are of paramount importance. ENSCO field offices and subsidiaries, representatives and partnerships are located throughout the United States and around the world. Learn more about ENSCO
ABOUT THE AIR FORCE ARMAMENT DIRECTORATE
The Armament Directorate is committed to enhancing worldwide Air Force combat capability and effectiveness through joint development, test, procurement, deployment, and product sustainment support for air delivered weapon systems. Directorate divisions align with Air Force core functions to include air dominance, direct attack, strategic systems, munitions sustainment, long range systems, miniature munitions, advanced programs, and test and training. With primary operating locations at Eglin, Hill and Robins Air Force Bases, the Armament Directorate manages a number of joint programs and is manned by both U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy personnel. The directorate designs, develops, produces, fields, and sustains a family of air-to-ground and air-to-air munitions for both U.S. and allied nations to defeat a spectrum of enemy targets.