Systems Engineering Leadership
Structured engineering support for planning, integration, verification, lifecycle decisions, and technically disciplined customer coordination.
Mark Gibson Leadership | Additive Manufacturing Focus
Senior engineering judgment and additive manufacturing support for organizations facing obsolete, unavailable, or long-lead parts.
RAAP Engineering is a small, focused firm led publicly by Mark Gibson, combining senior systems engineering leadership, policy-aware defense experience, reverse engineering, and additive manufacturing support for sustainment-driven customer needs.
Core Capabilities
Capabilities centered on Mark Gibson's leadership and RAAP's additive manufacturing direction.
Reverse Engineering and Additive Manufacturing
Support for recreating unavailable parts, legacy components, and specialized hardware through digital modeling, fit-focused redesign, additive manufacturing, and 3D-print workflow planning.
Adaptive Manufacturing Problem Solving
Practical support for form-fit-function evaluation, prototype iteration, and sustainment-oriented manufacturing decisions when standard sourcing breaks down.
Defense Policy and Technical Advisory Support
Senior advisory support shaped by defense, systems, policy, and enterprise-level environments where technical credibility and clear communication matter.
Technical Documentation and Test Delivery
Clear, technically grounded writing for engineering guidance, proposal support, customer follow-up, and validation-aligned materials.
Differentiators
Built around credibility, not volume.
Senior-level perspective
RAAP Engineering is positioned to bring Mark Gibson's seasoned judgment to technically demanding efforts where program context, engineering discipline, and communication quality matter.
Policy and mission familiarity
Mark's background spans defense acquisition, NASA strategic programs, missile defense, enterprise architecture, and policy-facing technical support environments.
Additive manufacturing focus
RAAP Engineering is positioned to help customers address broken, outdated, or no-longer-available components with responsive reverse engineering, additive manufacturing, and prototype-focused support.
Additive Manufacturing
3D printing and adaptive replacement workflows for legacy, obsolete, and unavailable parts.
Legacy part recreation
When original parts are no longer available, RAAP Engineering can support the recreation process by translating samples, drawings, or interface requirements into manufacturable digital models.
Rapid prototype turnaround
Additive manufacturing workflows can reduce wait time for early form, fit, and function evaluation, helping teams assess replacement concepts before committing to larger production decisions.
Defense and industrial sustainment relevance
This capability is well suited to maintenance, fixture development, and sustainment scenarios where conventional sourcing is delayed by obsolescence, limited suppliers, or incomplete technical data.
Mark Gibson Snapshot
Representative domains reflected across Mark Gibson's leadership background.
Experience supporting Office of the Secretary of Defense functions, missile defense initiatives, and engineering-focused government environments.
Prior work connected to strategic exploration planning and human-rated system development environments.
Experience in enterprise architecture, technical review, and disciplined systems thinking across mission-focused organizations.
Teaching and curriculum leadership that reinforce RAAP Engineering's ability to communicate complex topics clearly and support stakeholder understanding.
Contract Reference
Public-facing contract and policy-support context tied to Mark Gibson.
SAIC contract reference
Employee name: Mark Gibson. Company name: RAAP Engineering. Contract number: 229687.
Policy support context
Public-facing references include OSW/OUSW/SE&A policy work and OSW/OUSW/R&E/SE&A policy work as part of Mark Gibson's defense-oriented support background.
Leadership Credibility
Founding experience anchored by senior systems engineering and sustainment-focused support.
Mark Gibson
Mark Gibson brings decades of experience across aerospace, defense, systems engineering, verification, architecture assessment, and technical policy support. His background includes Air Force, NASA, Missile Defense Agency, defense contracting, and higher education roles.
- MS, Systems Engineering
- BS, Mechanical Engineering
- Active clearance referenced at a high level
Business Contact
Mark Gibson is the public point of contact for RAAP Engineering capability discussions, teaming outreach, and customer conversations related to reverse engineering, additive manufacturing, and sustainment-focused engineering support.
- mark.gibson@raapengineering.com
- 703-946-0475
- Green Valley, Arizona
Contractor Skills Matrix
Technical coverage aligned to defense and aerospace support.
Engineering and Development
Systems engineering, reverse engineering, additive manufacturing support, C, C++, C#, Fortran, WPF, legacy code modernization, automated testing, and software integration in secure environments.
Platforms and Tooling
Red Hat Linux, Windows 11, WSL, Git, GitLab, Docker, Postman, PowerShell, and Bash across day-to-day development and deployment support.
Verification and Documentation
Contractor verification testing, government verification testing, discrepancy correction, test setup, validation support, and technical procedure writing.
Representative Support Areas
Current emphasis areas aligned to RAAP's public-facing business story.
Support for translating broken samples, drawings, and interface requirements into practical replacement paths when legacy or obsolete parts are no longer readily available.
Business positioning includes fixture development, tooling support, and rapid-turn coordination for organizations that need technically grounded manufacturing help.
Additive manufacturing and 3D-printing workflows help reduce delay for form, fit, and function review when conventional sourcing is slow or unavailable.
RAAP Engineering also supports capability discussions, technical writing, and procurement-facing communication for engineering and sustainment opportunities.
Next Step