High-Tech Sourcing

If you are considering nearshoring software delivery to Ukraine, the core challenge is rarely access to talent. The hard part is ensuring delivery from Ukraine is predictable, secure, and controllable. Our service packages are designed as an end-to-end pathway that turns an outsourcing intention into an executive-grade, evidence-driven operating setup: clear decision rights, measurable acceptance, documented controls, and an escalation mechanism that still works when reality becomes

stressful.

High-Tech Sourcing from Ukraine helps German product organizations scale engineering capacity in Ukraine without losing control. Instead of body leasing, you get a governed, measurable, and auditable delivery model: readiness and business case, evidence-based partner selection, a closed-loop pilot with KPI-based acceptance, ongoing governance as a service, and optional security/compliance enablement. The result is a data-driven scale/stop decision, reduced operational and IP risk, and a repeatable path to faster time-to-market. 

Your advantages

1. Outsourcing Readiness and Business Case
This package is designed for leadership teams that want a confident go/no-go decision and a clear starting scope without spending months on internal alignment. You receive a management-ready target operating approach, a practical division of responsibilities between your German organization and the Ukrainian delivery side, and a business case that compares scenarios and makes cost drivers transparent. Just as important, the typical deal-stoppers are converted into explicit control expectations and evidence requirements, so privacy, intellectual property protection, information security maturity, and continuity under wartime conditions are handled as operational facts rather than assumptions. The result is a ready-to-decide foundation that reduces the risk of an expensive false start and provides a direct bridge to vendor selection and contracting.

2. Partner Sourcing and Due Diligence
Partner Sourcing is for organizations that want vendor selection to be defensible to executives and auditors, not driven by intuition or sales presentations. The sourcing process is structured so that vendors must provide verifiable proof, allowing you to compare candidates on delivery maturity, security fundamentals, and real reference strength. You receive a documented scoring logic, evidence-based due diligence findings, and a pilot plan designed to be contract-ready—complete with scope boundaries, governance rhythm, measurable acceptance criteria, and clear conditions for scaling or exiting. In practice, this improves negotiation leverage because requirements are anchored in proof obligations and acceptance criteria, rather than vague promises.

3. Pilot Delivery with Closed-Loop Proof
This package is designed for organizations that refuse to scale outsourcing on hope. In a tightly scoped pilot, you receive a working, releasable increment and, more importantly, measurable proof of whether the delivery setup is scalable. Acceptance is based on defined performance measures and documented evidence, so the pilot produces a board-ready decision foundation rather than subjective status reporting. The “closed-loop” principle means delivery is continuously measured, root causes are surfaced, corrective actions are executed, and improvements are verified through re-testing. At the end, you have a clear scale or stop recommendation with explicit conditions and a practical contractual blueprint for the next phase, allowing you to expand with control or to prevent early with minimal sunk cost.

Across all packages, compliance and security topics are handled in an execution-ready way—mapped into controls, evidence, and sign-off points—while final legal, tax, and formal privacy determinations remain with your qualified functions and advisors, as they should in a legally robust governance model.

4. Delivery Governance as a Service
Once delivery has started, the highest costs often come from drift: quality degradation, unclear acceptance, slow escalation, security regression, and vendor underperformance that is noticed too late. This package provides ongoing management that keeps delivery steerable and reviewable without turning your internal leaders into full-time coordinators. You get a stable governance system with a defined delivery cadence, a performance measurement and reporting approach, a catalogue of quality and security gates supported by an evidence register, and a fast escalation path between Germany and Ukraine. Vendor performance is objectively managed through recurring scorecards and quarterly business reviews, enabling corrective actions to be triggered early and tracked to closure. This is governance as an outcome—structured, documented, and decision-oriented—rather than hours spent in meetings.

Our Expertise

We combine on-the-ground project leadership experience in Ukraine with a deep understanding of the German High Tech Market and regulatory expectations. This enables us to align ministries, Management, investors, and industry partners around a common, executable plan and to translate complex cross-border initiatives into measurable, operational capacity on the ground.

We provide mission-critical consulting across the full lifecycle of complex high-level defence and cyber-physical systems. Our services are tailored to align with NATO, DoDAF, and national military standards, ensuring compliance, interoperability, and operational superiority from concept to deployment.

Each phase of the lifecycle is supported by expert guidance in modelling, verification, and digital engineering to enhance traceability, reduce risk, and accelerate readiness.

Your advantages

1. Stakeholder Needs, Problem Space & Early Concept Development

The first phase focuses on engaging stakeholders to capture mission needs, operational constraints, and high-level capability expectations. We support the definition of the problem domain, system scope, and early feasibility boundaries through structured workshops, stakeholder mapping, and mission scenario analysis. We document use cases, pain points, and boundary conditions while laying the foundation for a traceable requirements hierarchy. These efforts ensure alignment with operational objectives and serve as a launch point for architectural and systems thinking. 

2. Concept Formulation & Enterprise Architecture

Once the problem space is understood, we define the conceptual and technological solution space. This includes identifying enabling technologies, use case candidates, and conceptual frameworks that support military doctrine and CONOPS. We leverage frameworks such as DoDAF 2.02, NAFv4, and UAF to develop layered enterprise architectures, capturing operational, systems, and technical views. This ensures that the future system is interoperable by design, compliant with NATO C3 taxonomy, and aligned with national defence strategies. 

3. Functional Architecture & Analytical Prototyping

We then support the derivation of functional requirements and the development of logical solution architectures. Through MBSE practices and tools like SPARX EA, we decompose the system into its functional components, define information and control flows, and validate early hypotheses through simulation and analytical prototyping. This phase verifies that the system logic satisfies stakeholder intent and mission-critical performance thresholds under simulated operational conditions. 

4. Physical Architecting & System Requirements

In this phase, logical functions are mapped to physical subsystems, and detailed system requirements are developed. We provide structured requirements engineering aligned with ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148. We model interfaces, assess constraints (e.g., power, weight, size, timing), and ensure verification criteria are embedded in each requirement. Trade studies are conducted to optimise the architecture across capability, cost, and risk dimensions. This phase culminates in a mature, traceable, and testable system specification. 

5. Test Strategy, Verification & Validation Planning 

The validated system architecture is transitioned into a fully designed and allocated system design. We facilitate detailed subsystem definition, integration planning, and create baseline reviews. This includes algorithm design, physical decomposition, and support for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) prototyping. We ensure that the system is integration-ready, risk-managed, and aligned with safety, interoperability, and performance mandates. 

6.  Systems Design & Subsystem Integration Planning 

We define a test strategy that encompasses the full verification and validation (V&V) lifecycle. This includes the development of test cases for functional, design, and system-level verification, aligned with standards such as MIL-STD-810, ARP4754A, and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119. STPSE supports the definition of scenario-based tests, edge case simulations, and performance envelope validation. All test artifacts are model-based, traceable, and fully aligned with the requirements framework. 

7.  Deployment, Certification & Mission Readiness 

With test evidence in place, the system is prepared for final deployment and certification. We assist in navigating certification requirements, whether for military accreditation, airworthiness, or NATO interoperability. We coordinate safety case development, cybersecurity validation (e.g., NIST 800-160, Zero Trust Architecture), and final operational assessments. Documentation and traceability are tightly managed to ensure full lifecycle evidence is available for auditors, customers, and certification authorities. 

8. Technical File, Compliance & Sustainment Readiness 

Finally, we provide structured support for generating the full Technical Data Package (TDP), ensuring compliance with defence documentation standards. We compile safety cases, software and firmware documentation, configuration baselines, operational manuals, and post-deployment compliance artefacts. This ensures systems are not only ready for delivery but also prepared for long-term sustainment, updates, and secure lifecycle management. 

Our Expertise

We specialise in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for complex, mission- and safety-critical systems across the defence and aerospace sectors. Our core strengths lie in system architecture, requirements engineering, and model-driven verification, ensuring compliance with international standards such as ISO 15288, DoDAF, NAFv4, MIL-STD-882E, and NATO STANAGs. We integrate logical and physical design using tools like SPARX EA and support full lifecycle development, from stakeholder needs through to certification and sustainment. With deep expertise in safety engineering (FHA, FMRA, FTA), digital systems, and secure-by-design architectures, we ensure systems are robust, interoperable, and future-ready. Our approach is strategic, standards-driven, and focused on delivering operational advantage through precision systems engineering. 

Ensuring agility and alignment between teams is critical for innovation and compliance with stringent regulatory requirements. Team Topologies, a proven framework for optimizing team dynamics, can help your organization improve collaboration, accelerate delivery, and ensure safety and quality in  defence system development. We specialize in tailoring Team Topologies to meet the unique needs of the defence industry, enabling seamless integration of cross-functional expertise and compliance-driven workflows.

Your Advantages

1. Discovery and Assessment

The process begins with a comprehensive discovery and assessment phase. We work closely with your stakeholders to understand your organization’s current team structures, workflows, and challenges. By mapping existing interactions and dependencies, we uncover areas where alignment and efficiency can be improved, all while ensuring adherence to regulatory standards such as DoDAF and ISO 15288. The outcome is a diagnostic report that highlights key areas for enhancement.

 
2. Team Tolpologies Design

Following the assessment, we move to the design phase, creating a tailored Team Typologies Blueprint. This involves categorizing your teams into core, enabling, platform, and stream-aligned types, ensuring that each team’s responsibilities align with business and regulatory requirements. We identify areas where decoupling can reduce cognitive load and develop a compliance-first interaction model that supports seamless operations.

3. Interaction Models and Communication Paths

The third step focuses on defining interaction models and communication paths. Effective collaboration between teams is essential, and we design service-oriented interaction contracts to enhance autonomy while maintaining clear communication channels. Escalation mechanisms and compliance touchpoints are addressed to ensure the new structure supports your organization’s regulatory obligations. Detailed interaction guidelines and communication protocols are delivered to guide this process.

4. Implementation and Training

In the implementation and training phase, we help transition your organization to the new team structure. This includes conducting workshops and training sessions to ensure that personnel are equipped to thrive in their roles. We implement tools to manage team interactions and workflows effectively, monitoring progress and addressing challenges as they arise. By the end of this phase, your teams will be fully operational within the new framework.

5. Continuous Optimization

Finally, we provide continuous optimization to ensure sustained performance and adaptability. We regularly review team structures and workflows, with team feedback guiding ongoing improvements. This adaptive approach allows your organization to respond effectively to evolving business and regulatory demands. An optimization framework with key metrics is provided to track success over time.

Our Expertise

Our approach to implementing Team Topologies is highly customized and designed to address organizations' unique challenges. We provide tailored solutions that enhance team collaboration, streamline processes, and ensure regulatory compliance. With ongoing post-implementation support, we help your organization adapt to industry and organizational changes, ensuring long-term success.