When Your Project is Mission Critical

We help companies, governments, and individuals articulate—then solve—their toughest challenges.

Clients use Special Teams at many stages of solving a problem. We build prototypes, supplement existing teams, and serve as advisors. No matter the scope, we always perform our role as if we are responsible for implementing the solution.

  • The costs, risks, and number of distractions throughout a project can be minimized by spending rigorous effort understanding the problem space and the user needs up front. Special Teams works to define the requirements, interfaces, and constraints to reveal key challenges and opportunities.

  • Once the bounds of a problem are known, we work with clients to define a concept of operations and a solution architecture. This includes comprehensive trade studies and feasibility analysis to evaluate the field of possible solutions, interface definition between systems or subsystems, and detailed plans for operation and use.

  • Special Teams is a creative powerhouse of design, engineering, and scientific talent dedicated to bringing concepts to life. Whether it's demonstrating, prototyping, or fabricating—from pocket-sized devices to industrial-scale mobility systems—we can build it.

  • One of the most difficult parts of designing a revolutionary solution or product is getting all the pieces to work together. Once the system is running, validation and verification testing ensure that the system performs as expected. We have decades of experience in the integration and testing of complex systems underground, underwater, on the surface, and out in space.

Space-Grade Systems Engineering

Conceptual Studies

We transform abstract ideas into actionable systems designs, mapping out technical feasibility, resource requirements, and implementation pathways with space-grade precision.

At Special Teams, we bring spaceflight-caliber systems engineering to your most complex challenges. Our engineers embed directly with your team, applying the same rigor and discipline that puts robots on Mars to ensure your mission-critical systems succeed.

What truly sets us apart? We build what we design. Our hands-on approach means we take ownership of the entire problem-solving process, confronting challenges head-on and crafting solutions with implementation in mind.

When you partner with Special Teams, you get engineers who understand your operations because they've walked the facilities, immersed themselves in the environment, and built what they've designed.

Example Systems Engineering Projects

Technology Due Diligence

Our engineers conduct thorough assessments of technologies and systems, identifying risks, validating capabilities, and ensuring your investments are sound.

Innovation Advisory

We guide organizations through complex technical challenges, applying spacecraft-level systems thinking to create breakthrough solutions that others miss.

Our physics-based modeling toolkit creates digital replicas of your industrial systems, providing accurate insights on how new technologies and decarbonization projects will impact real-world operations across mine sites, oil & gas production, maritime transport, and rail networks.

By simulating performance before deployment, we help clients reduce risk, accelerate decision-making, and optimize capital allocation.

This approach enables more confident investments in new technology and decarbonization, identifies operational bottlenecks before they occur, and supports compliance with evolving emissions standards—while maximizing uptime and system efficiency.

Modeling & Simulation for Industrial Operations

Example Modeling & Simulation Projects

Mine Site Op Model

Physics-based representation of infrastructure and mobile equipment at mine sites that quantifies the impact of new technologies and operational changes, optimizing for efficiency and sustainability.

Process Plant Feasibility

Comprehensive technoeconomic modeling for industrial-scale chemical plants, integrating equipment performance, local costs, policy considerations, and financial metrics to determine optimal configurations.

Heavy Mobile Equipment Product Development

Representative customer-use models that accelerate decision-making throughout the design process by quantifying value propositions for heavy equipment applications.

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