EFFECTS-BASED
OPERATIONS

  • System-of-system analysis & ISR preparation of the battlefield
  • Mission analysis

Autonomous Systems

  • Concept & process development
  • Unmanned air vehicles
  • Swarm systems
  • Modeling & analysis

Communications, including Ad Hoc Wireless

  • Concept development
  • Design & prototyping

Signal & Image Processing

  • Linear & non-linear
  • State-of-the-art & next-generation

Complexity Theory

  • Agent-based modeling
  • Mobile agents
  • Evolutionary algorithms

Estimation & Control Theory

  • Concept development
  • Design & prototyping
  • Flight implementation

Analysis & Modeling

  • Domains: Diplomatic, Information, Military, Economic (DIME) vs. Human, Social, Cultural, Behavioral (HSCB) / Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure (PMESII)
  • In support of planning & operations
  • In support of concept development and/or acquisition
  • Utility analysis -- in terms of decision maker's "so what?"

System, & System-of-Systems Architecting & Engineering

  • Vision creation
  • Concept development
  • Requirements analysis
  • Architecture analysis
  • Engineering analysis
  • Trade study
  • Design
  • Implementation planning

Customized Computing Architectures

  • Concept development
  • Prototyping