Case Study: Orbital ATK achieves centralized software release integrity and CMMI compliance with OpenText StarTeam

StarTeam delivers complete software release integrity backed up by comprehensive metrics for full regulation compliance

Orbital ATK, a global aerospace and defense company that designs and builds space, defense and aviation systems—including missile systems for naval aircraft—faced the challenge of coordinating geographically dispersed software, production, testing and QA teams under strict navy regulations and CMMI audit requirements. They needed a centralized, auditable repository and enforced approval process to prevent release artifacts from being scattered on personal drives and to ensure flawless software releases for missile installation.

Orbital ATK implemented Micro Focus StarTeam Enterprise, customizing workflows to mirror engineering and production processes, integrate with Visual Studio, and enforce check-in/check-out and QA approvals. StarTeam consolidated artifacts, provided traceable links between change requests and code, and delivered metrics for audits—resulting in improved collaboration, visibility, productivity and sustained CMMI compliance, becoming a mission‑critical part of their release process.

Orbital ATK

Ed Dantes

Software Configuration Manager