About Okean Solutions
At Okean Solutions, we create system health monitoring and control architectures, custom software for complex systems, and perform physics-based modeling and simulation. We have worked with companies and government agencies in the aerospace and defense sectors since the company's founding in 2010. We are a Seattle-based agile small business that responds efficiently to evolving customer needs.
In addition to creating our flagship FM software product, MONSID®, Okean's engineering team also provides a full spectrum of services from model development to ongoing mission support, including consulting, installation, modelling, reporting and output diagnosis, and software development and customization.
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About the Founders
Ksenia Kolcio
President, Okean Solutions, Inc.
Ksenia Kolcio is the President and co-founder of Okean Solutions, Inc., where she leads the aerospace systems business activities. She has been PI and supported several Phase I, II, III, and BAA programs for NASA and AFRL.
Focus areas include spacecraft fault management and GN&C technologies and analysis tools. Ksenia has successfully proposed, negotiated and executed Phase I, II, and III contracts with the AFRL and NASA to develop fault management for responsive spacecraft. She also collaborated with other small businesses on NASA Phase II/III programs to develop x-ray based navigation technologies (XNAV) and user interface and measurement models for navigation mission prototyping tools (GSFC ODTBX).
Prior to forming Okean Solutions, Ksenia was employed at Microcosm, Inc. as a Senior Systems/GN&C Engineer. There she provided algorithm development, simulation/analysis, SBIR program technical lead/management, as well as hardware and software development support. Projects included miniaturized three-axis attitude and navigation sensor solutions, Lunar gravity sensor concept, control simulation for free-floating space telescope mirrors.
Ksenia started her career at Northrop Grumman Space Technology (NGST) in the Avionics Systems Center. She was the lead autonomy and fault management engineer for two classified programs responsible for the FM architecture design and requirements flow down and traceability. On the NPOES program she developed flight vehicle simulator architecture for operator training and procedure checkout. She was also testbed lead engineer on the AEHF Gimbal Control Subsystem responsible for the design, build-up, integration of the testbed simulator and test harness, resulting in successful on-time verification. At the beginning of her career at NGST, Ksenia was a control system engineer for internal research and development projects, such as the optical intersatellite link program and the autonomous onboard processing initiative where she worked on applying a model-based FM system to spacecraft GN&C systems.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1997
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, 1990
Papers and Publications
Kolcio, K., Graven P.,
"Deep Space Navigation Mission Design and Analysis Tool"
IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Big Sky, MT, Mar. 1-8, 2014,
https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2014.6836172 
Kolcio,K., Breger, L., Zetocha, P.,
"Model-Based Fault Management for Spacecraft Autonomy"
IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 1-8, 2014,
https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2014.6836174
K. Kolcio-Prather, S. Parker and P. Graven,
"Investigating latency in PnP GN&C architectures,"
2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2012, pp. 1-13,
https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2012.6187288
Kolcio, K.,
"An Evolutionary Approach to Autonomous Fault Management"
AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Garden Grove, CA, June 19-21 2012
P. Graven, K. Kolcio, Y. Plam and L. J. Hansen
"Implementation of a Plug-and-Play attitude determination and control system on PnPSat"
2009 IEEE Aerospace conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2009, pp. 1-13,
https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2009.4839562
Kolcio K., Hanson, M. L., Fesq, L. M., Forrest, D. J.,
"Integrating Autonomous Fault Management With Conventional Flight Software: A Case Study"
IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, March, 1999,
https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1999.794302
Kolcio, K., Hanson, M., and Fesq, L.M.,
"Validation of Autonomous Fault Diagnostic Software"
1998 IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, March 21-28 1998
K. Kolcio and A. Helmicki,
"Development of a Liquid Equation of State From First Principles for Use in Propulsion System Modeling"
AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 213-218, January 1996
K. Kolcio, A. Helmicki, and S. Jaweed,
"Liquid Rocket Engine Modeling for Condition Monitoring and Control: Part I, Theoretical Foundations"
30th Joint Propulsion Conference, Indianapolis, IN, AIAA-94-3227, June 1994
K. Kolcio and A. Helmicki,
"Liquid Rocket Engine Modeling for Condition Monitoring and Control: Part II, Application to the Space Shuttle Main Engine"
30th Joint Propulsion Conference, Indianapolis, IN, AIAA-94-3228, June 1994
K. Kolcio, A. Helmicki, and S. Jaweed,
"Propulsion System Modeling for Condition Monitoring and Control: A Status Report"
SAE Aerospace Atlantic Conference and Exposition, Dayton, OH, SAE-94-1220, April, 1994
A. Helmicki, S. Jaweed, K. Kolcio, and F. Kuo,
"Health Monitoring and Control for the STME: A Case Study"
Fifth Annual Health Monitoring Conference for Space Propulsion Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1993, pp. 128-141
A. Helmicki and K. Kolcio,
"Aspects of Model-Based Rocket Engine Condition Monitoring and Control"
Technical Report, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, December, 1993
Maurice Prather
Vice President, Okean Solutions, Inc.
Maurice Prather is the Vice President and co-founder of Okean Solutions, Inc. Since starting the company in 2010, Maurice has been an integral part of the IT and Engineering divisions of the company. He has worked as a systems architect, trainer, content author, and software developer in addition to helping manage the company.
Maurice has worked in the aerospace and software industry his entire professional career. After graduate school, Maurice moved to Seattle, WA to work for Boeing's Commercial Airplane division. While working at Boeing, Maurice helped maintain applications built on Fortran 77 and proprietary software critical to the community noise and flight operations groups. After working with the engineering teams at Boeing, Maurice decided to focus on software development for business systems. He spent nearly 7 years working at Microsoft developing and maintaining a variety of testing harness tools and applications as member of the Office team. After leaving Microsoft, Maurice worked as a consultant, helping customers design and implement business critical applications (web applications, databases, and services).
Maurice has been an integral part in the development of the MONSID API and toolset (written in C#, C++, C for both Windows and Linux platforms), which began in 2016. He has led the successful delivery of software for a variety of NASA JPL fault management projects. He also works with messaging frameworks such as ROS and cFS.
Education
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama, 1996
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Alabama, 1993
Papers and Publications
Prather, M., Poozhiyil, S., Miller, A.,
"Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Code Access Security"
MSDN, June 2003
Cuttino. J., Schinstock, D., and Prather, M.,
"Three-Dimensional Metrology Frame for Precision Applications"
Journal of the American Society of Precision Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 1999,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141635998000312
Okean Partners
Aptillon, Inc.
Aptillon, Inc. provides high-level technical consulting services and flexible, custom and creative solutions to business problems, specializing in Microsoft 365 support and development and custom web application and desktop development using modern frameworks.
Okean Solutions has worked with the Aptillon team on a variety of projects since 2010, including a Phase II-X to help develop the MONSID Toolkit. Aptillon brings a wealth of experience in software architecture, development of server- and client-side applications and web-based tools to this effort.
Okean Solutions and Aptillon have been trusted partners since the beginning. Such long-standing business relationships provide benefits of scale, the economics of common processes and reliable communication that significantly expand the capability of both companies.
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O3 Consulting, Inc.
O3 Consulting provides business consulting, including market and competitor research, evaluation, planning and online marketing implementation services to small and medium businesses and organizations including Okean Solutions.
O3 developed and maintains the MONSID.com and Okean.Solutions website, designs marketing materials for Okean Solutions, and supports proposal development.
In addition to these services, O3 has been providing Technical and Business Assistance (TABA) on Okean Solutions SBIR contracts since 2021. O3 works with Okean, providing competitor research, including commercial competitors and SBIR competitors, market analysis, intellectual property research and recommendations, and marketing and branding research and recommendations. The company leads the evolution of Okean's business strategy, business model, and commercialization plan to expand the appeal of Okean and MONSID to commercial partners and customers.
In 2022, Okean and O3 were awarded a two-year NASA Phase II project: Fault Management Analysis Tool For Model Centric Systems Engineering, including additional TABA work to expand the commercialization and business planning that was begun in Phase I An exciting Phase II task will be to update the Competitor Analysis Tool started in Phase I. Read more about a recent project that benefits from the TABA work at /company-news/okean-solutions-selected-for-a-nasa-sbir-program-phase-ii-award/.
Additional company services include evaluation, design and creation of websites, social media marketing, email marketing, usability evaluation, writing, and website hosting and security.
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