DYNAMISConsulting & Controls, LLC
Independent engineering · Troy, Michigan
Hands-on controls and embedded software engineering for vehicles, machines, and the systems that power them.
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Applied R&D. Production-intent prototypes.
Engineering you can build on.
What Dynamis does
Focused engineering support where control theory, real-time software, and physical systems meet.
Control architecture, model-based development, and supervisory controls for propulsion and electrified platforms.
Raptor®-Dev & Raptor®-Cal
MATLAB / Simulink
Powertrain & energy management
Low-level integration, platform bring-up, and maintainable software for new and legacy embedded systems.
C / C++ · QNX / Linux / RTOS
BSP & hardware integration
Legacy software modernization
Turn requirements and interfaces into a testable system, with clear evidence of what works and why.
CAN & Ethernet interfaces
MIL / SIL / HIL & bench testing
Requirements & traceability
Technical & strategic consulting
Turn early ideas, struggling workflows, and emerging opportunities into a practical direction your team can execute and sustain.
Develop a high-level idea into documented use cases, system requirements, architectural components, interfaces, and an actionable project plan. Give the development team a coherent starting point for implementation and verification.
Map workflows across teams, clarify responsibilities, and establish practical standards, reviews, and tools. Align iterative development with business phases and quality gates, keeping requirements, architecture, and code connected as the work evolves.
Work alongside your team to put the approach into practice on real projects. Workshops, guided implementation, and coaching help people apply new methods and tools, resolve blockers, and build confidence in the workflow.
Connect commercial engineering capabilities with military needs. Support technical positioning, relevant introductions, and teaming relationships, with practical guidance for suppliers establishing a presence in the defense market.
Engagements can begin with a focused assessment and roadmap, a defined architecture and requirements package, or scoped advisory support. Workshops and rollout assistance help the team put recommendations to work.
Agree on outcomes, customer ownership, and a planned handoff from the start. The goal is a team that can operate and maintain its own processes, tools, and engineering work products, with follow-on advice available for specific needs.
Better engineering should also make the working day better: clearer expectations, fewer avoidable blockers, and less dependence on individual heroics.
Discuss a consulting engagementLegacy software sustainment
Dynamis helps Army and defense programs reduce vendor lock-in and regain control of legacy embedded software sustainment.
We recover build environments, assess operating-system and hardware dependencies, and develop targeted changes that give government teams or other qualified maintainers a practical path forward.
Application reuse, documented interfaces, diagnostics, and verification come together in a handoff your team can demonstrate. We assess qualification impacts and help establish the evidence needed for the updated system.
Discuss a sustainment assessmentEstablish access, inventory the baseline and dependencies, and agree on the first work package and acceptance evidence.
Restore platform support, host selected application software, and deliver repeatable builds, representative tests, and usable design notes.
Address required hardware, network, boot, and diagnostic interfaces, with evidence for representative operating and fault conditions.
Exercise the intended hardware, complete the agreed assurance work, and demonstrate that the receiving team can perform the defined maintenance tasks.
An engagement can begin with a bounded baseline-recovery effort. Broader integration, qualification, and fielding support are scoped separately as needed. Duration and staffing follow the condition of the system and the agreed deliverables.
Representative experience
Selected work from Paul's consulting engagements and earlier engineering roles.
Power generation / Engine controls
Led hardware and software architecture for natural gas and diesel genset controllers supporting up to eight cylinders. Defined requirements, hardware/software boundaries, and interfaces for sensing, fuel delivery, and ignition.
Requirements · Schematic review · Embedded architecture
Electrification / Vehicle integration
Led controls and model-based development for a 40-ton platform at American Rheinmetall Vehicles. Developed production-intent controls on Raptor® RCM-112 with Raptor®-Dev and Raptor®-Cal, including high-voltage bus and energy-storage management.
600 V systems · Energy management · Raptor®
Dynamis engagement / M109A7 Paladin
Through Dynamis, Paul worked with PM SPHS and GVSC-SEC to shape a phased scope for software sustainment and internal capability development for the M109A7 Paladin's Vehicle Control and Distribution Module (VCDM).
The VCDM controls chassis components and distributes low-voltage 28 V power throughout vehicle subsystems.
The proposed work connected recovery of the software baseline with board support and operating-system integration, verification, documentation, and knowledge transfer to government maintainers.
Technical scoping and proposal. The contracting path for follow-on execution was not finalized.
Powertrain / Real-time systems
Developed diesel, AGT1500 gas-turbine, and tracked-transmission controls at Army GVSC, with MIL, SIL, and HIL verification. Broader experience includes Linux/QNX diagnostics, fault management, and communication for autonomous vehicles.
Model-based controls · HIL · Embedded C / C++
Take a closer look
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Customers & testimonials
Past and current consulting customers include Methodica Technologies and Western Labs.
Engagements include new engine-controller hardware and software architecture for natural gas and diesel gensets up to eight cylinders, along with technical advisory and defense business development support.
Direct access. Clear ownership.
Paul KruchkoPrincipal & Owner
Dynamis is an independent, veteran-owned engineering practice built on Paul's more than 12 years of hands-on experience across automotive, military ground vehicles, electrification, aerospace, and autonomous systems.
That experience includes developing supervisory controls on New Eagle™'s Raptor® RCM-112 using Raptor®-Dev and Raptor®-Cal, alongside embedded platform integration, safety-oriented software, and requirements-driven verification.
Engagements focus on a defined engineering problem, practical deliverables, and a clear handoff: understandable software, documented interfaces, and evidence your team can use.
Connect with Paul on LinkedInOur mission
Turn controls and embedded-system challenges into understandable, verified, and maintainable engineering solutions.
Our vision
Help customers carry sound engineering from an early concept into systems they can operate, extend, and sustain.
Our values
Test assumptions. Communicate honestly. Follow through on the work. Share the knowledge that helps the customer's team succeed.
Publications
Dynamis white papers and GVSETS technical papers coauthored by Paul, available as PDFs.
Our approach to preserving useful application software while addressing the platform, tooling, and data dependencies that prevent independent maintenance. Covers assessment, targeted platform changes, verification, transition economics, and handoff, with M109A7 Paladin VCDM sustainment planning for PM SPHS and GVSC-SEC as representative experience.
Download white paper PDFSeptember 2026 · Version 0.2HIL and SIL methods for the neXtECU platform, including plant models of the Abrams gas turbine, drivetrain, and vehicle dynamics.
Read the paper PDFHosted by CzeroA collaborative application of the neXtECU controller, electronic fuel injection, and engine-control software to the AVDS 1790 diesel engine.
Read the paper PDFHosted by the Engineering Society of DetroitThe blog
Engineering, architecture, and the things worth arguing about.
Notes on designing hardware and software to withstand obsolescence, putting open architecture standards to work, and making better engineering decisions across defense and automotive systems.
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