This was an exciting and productive week for Team FLASH! We traveled to Orlando to visit our sponsor, Lockheed Martin, for our Preliminary Design Review. We enjoyed meeting our liaison engineers in person, touring the facility, and presenting the progress… Read More
Month: October 2026
Narrowing the Scope – Blog #6, 10/17/2026
Our liaison meeting this week was the most useful one yet. We went in hoping they would narrow the scope for us, and they turned it back on us instead. Every part of their chip development process costs them time,… Read More
Blog #5, 10/10/2026
This was a heads-down working week for Team FLASH. After presenting our PDR to other IPPD teams and our coach, we spent most of our time working through the feedback. Much of it pushed us toward the same thing, which… Read More
Concepts and Constraints – Blog #4, 10/3/2026
Most of our week went into the Preliminary Design Review. Putting it together meant turning a broad statement of work into goals we can actually measure, which took longer than we expected. Our two main targets are catching and fixing… Read More