This paper reports on industrial experimentations to develop a dedicated model-based framework (process and tool support) aimed at supporting a subset of an existing documentbased engineering process involving different teams belonging to two main stakeholders. The process supported covers the design of security related products by a prime contractor, and the supervision of this work by the contracting authority. This paper provides more details on this process, the requirements for the model-based engineering framework, and the work achieved. It then discusses the first results obtained from those experimentations, the lessons learned, and provides feedback for future similar works. Those relate mainly around: the benefits of an explicit and detailed methodology; the customizability of a general modeling language such as SysML for the development of a specialized model-based framework; and the importance of the distinction and clear definition of the problem domain, which correspond to the semantics of the models, and the solution domain, which corresponds to the syntax of the models. CCS Concepts • General and reference → Experimentation; • Computing methodologies → Modeling methodologies; • Applied computing → Computer-aided design; • Software and its engineering → Model-driven software engineering; System modeling languages.