When Artemis 1 takes off next year, there will be 90 people in the room on launch day. Two-thirds of them will be Jacobs engineers overseeing the launch sequence software they created.
The scope of the software engineering that Jacobs performs for the Artemis program is broad. Just as the physical systems of Pad 39B were redesigned and reconstructed over more than a decade for the Space Launch System rocket program, all of the software that allows ground and SLS systems to work together had to be designed by a team of more than 200 systems, software and hardware engineers, programmers and analysts. As with the physical assets, the software had to be developed, integrated and tested.