Start with the source.
Bring solicitations, product briefs, meetings, and technical documents into the project. Build traceable requirements with source citations, then review and approve the baseline.
Defense Engineering Platform
The Execution LayerBetween Concept
and Scale.
DDNA connects program sources, requirements, reviews, and evidence in one engineering workflow.
Purpose-built for the defense industrial base.
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The platform
One platform.
One program state.
DDNA connects the intent behind a product to the work required to deliver it. Requirements, engineering models, materials, manufacturing processes, and test evidence stay connected to the approved configuration.
When something changes, the platform carries that change across the program: what is affected, who needs to review it, and which evidence belongs to the next release. Engineering, production, and quality work from the same record.
Keep the work connected.
Connect the requirement to the design, the bill of materials, the work instructions, and the test. Controlled changes keep the approved revision visible across each handoff.
Carry the record forward.
Capture decisions, approvals, and verification evidence as the work happens. The Reproducibility Packet brings that history together with the released product configuration.
The reality of execution
What breaks on
real defense programs.
A change is only complete when the people building, testing, and approving the product are working from the same revision.
The change stops at the handoff.
Engineering updates a tolerance. The drawing changes, but the supplier and the production work package still carry the old revision.
The mismatch reaches the floor before the change does. Quality finds it in the part.
Every team has a different baseline.
Design, manufacturing, and quality each have a version they trust. Their requirements, material records, and test plans no longer describe the same product.
Reviews become reconciliation. The program has to reconstruct what was approved, built, and tested.
The evidence trails the execution.
The work is finished, but the approvals, inspection records, and test results are scattered across tools, inboxes, and shared drives.
Release and acceptance depend on finding the evidence and tying it back to the right configuration.
DDNA connects the handoffs.
Changes, ownership, and evidence stay attached to the program state.
Inside the platform
How DDNA works.
Follow a project from its intent through the system and its requirements to the graph and the work that closes each gap.
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Intent and its registers
Stakeholders, outcomes, constraints and the rest of the project’s basis live in registers. AI drafts proposals from the sources; people accept, edit or reject them, and the Intent documents show the result.
Across the lifecycle
A living program state.
From intent to release.
Each phase adds to the same program record. Requirements, decisions, configuration, and evidence carry forward through every handoff.
01 / Plan
Turn intent into a controlled baseline.
Customer sources become structured requirements with ownership and source citations. Human approval establishes the baseline that design and execution carry forward.
This phase’s record carries into the next.
The program recordThrough Plan
- Added here
Requirements baseline
Sources, approved requirements, and ownership
- Design
Design baseline
Models, interfaces, bill of materials, and rationale
- Develop
Build record
Work orders, material genealogy, and configuration
- Test
Verification evidence
Test results, inspections, and discrepancy closure
- Release
Release packet
Approved configurations, technical data, and evidence
Leadership
Founding team.
Michael Meyer
CEODefense DNA
Technical founder and former U.S. Air Force leader focused on standards and compliance for complex defense systems. 14 years in DoD operations and acquisition.
Callye Keen
Co-FounderCEO of Kform
Manufacturing entrepreneur and product development expert. Has taken hundreds of products from prototype to scale, with a focus on scalable manufacturing systems.
Andre Wegner
Co-FounderCEO of Authentise
Digital thread and automation leader connecting engineering to factory execution. Former Chair of Digital Manufacturing at Singularity University.