Built for difficult systems.
Hughie Systems develops firmware and software infrastructure for connected products and satellite systems. Our work combines engineering services with proprietary product development, from device platforms and spacecraft subsystem integration to connectivity and deployed operation.
Based in Northwest Arkansas · Working with product teams across the United States
Technical ownership from architecture through delivery.
Engagements are scoped around concrete product outcomes, with responsibility for architecture, implementation, and verification carried through delivery. The work stays grounded in the code, hardware interfaces, and operating conditions that determine whether the system succeeds.
Hughie Systems is especially useful when a connected product is moving from prototype toward production—or when an existing product is becoming difficult to integrate, update, diagnose, recover, or scale. We can assess the architecture, implement the highest-value improvements, or provide ongoing fractional embedded-platform leadership.
Client systems and proprietary products under one roof.
Client engagements address firmware architecture, satellite flight software, integration, and operational reliability. Product development applies that work to our own technology, beginning with VALRAVN™, a multi-drone mission command platform in development.
Brett Manning
Founder
Brett Manning is the founder of Hughie Systems, bringing more than nine years of engineering experience across aerospace, defense, and commercial technology. His background spans system architecture and product development, with an emphasis on how software and hardware operate together.
At Hughie Systems, he leads technical direction and the development of the company's own technology alongside its client engineering work. His focus is on connected systems and autonomy, and on taking new ideas from concept into practical use.