Software Tool Application
Our custom-designed tools and methodologies designed for issue analysis and decision support contribute to SPA history of direct awards
Our custom-designed tools and methodologies designed for issue analysis and decision support contribute to SPA history of direct awards
Our integrated custom tools incorporate advanced modeling capabilities and AI/ML features, providing insight into component interactions and enabling data-driven decisions. Our experts seamlessly integrate tools to missions to drive client success. SPA’s rigorous application of these technologies provides unique, objective, and defensible evidence, empowering executive leaders to efficiently plan and promoting enhanced decision-making and cost savings. Some of our top tools are highlighted below.
GCAM
Cyber Assassin
COMSTAT
Model-Based Mission Engineering
- Model military operations to inform national security decisions and other challenges
- Use on-demand wargaming scenarios to model cyber-impact analysis
- Create deployment schedules that optimize force availability and mission accomplishment
- Use quantitative metrics and proven MBSE principles to evaluate mission effectiveness
NSS
Wargaming and Mission Planning Environment
Prescriptive Enterprise Forecasting
CASE-T
- Quantitatively evaluate alternative force structures, capabilities, concepts of operations, and schemes of maneuver with a focus on mission level C4ISR
- Mission plan and wargame via an interactive digital surface that Integrates geospatial, infrastructure, and operational data
- Forecast costs and resource allocations by combining operational expertise, authoritative data, and prescriptive analytics in a unique process
- Evaluate the performance of counter-unmanned aircraft systems deployed in a variety of operational and geographical environments
GCAM
- Model military operations to inform national security decisions and other challenges
COMSTAT
- Create deployment schedules that optimize force availability and mission accomplishment
Model-Based Mission Engineering
- Use quantitative metrics and proven MBSE principles to evaluate mission effectiveness
NSS
- Simulate current and projected force, system and concept of operations effectiveness with a focus on mission level C4ISR
Wargaming and Mission Planning Environment
- Mission plan and wargame via an interactive digital surface that Integrates geospatial, infrastructure, and operational data
Prescriptive Enterprise Forecasting
- Forecast costs and resource allocations by combining operational expertise, authoritative data, and prescriptive analytics in a unique process
CASE-T
- Evaluate the performance of counter-unmanned aircraft systems deployed in a variety of operational and geographical environments
GCAM
- Model military operations to inform national security decisions and other challenges
Cyber Assassin
- Use on-demand wargaming scenarios to model cyber-impact analysis
COSMOS
- Create deployment schedules that optimize force availability and mission accomplishment
Model-Based Mission Engineering
- Use quantitative metrics and proven MBSE principles to evaluate mission effectiveness
NSS
- Simulate current and projected force, system and concept of operations effectiveness with a focus on mission level C4ISR
Wargaming and Mission Planning Environment
- Mission plan and wargame via an interactive digital surface that Integrates geospatial, infrastructure, and operational data
Prescriptive Enterprise Forecasting
- Forecast costs and resource allocations by combining operational expertise, authoritative data, and prescriptive analytics in a unique process
CASE-T
- Evaluate the performance of counter-unmanned aircraft systems deployed in a variety of operational and geographical environments
GCAM
- Model military operations to inform national security decisions and other challenges
COMSTAT
- Create deployment schedules that optimize force availability and mission accomplishment
Model-Based Mission Engineering
- Use quantitative technical and operational metrics and proven model based systems engineering principles to evaluate mission effectiveness
NSS
- Simulate current and projected force, system and concept of operations effectiveness with a focus on mission level C4ISR
Wargaming and Mission Planning Environment
- Mission plan and wargame via an interactive digital surface that Integrates geospatial, infrastructure, and operational data
Prescriptive Enterprise Forecasting
- Forecast costs and resource allocations by combining operational expertise, authoritative data, and prescriptive analytics in a unique process
CASE-T
- Evaluate the performance of counter-unmanned aircraft systems deployed in a variety of operational and geographical environments
GCAM
Military operations modeling
An agile and powerful tool for building custom simulations that model military operations to inform national security decisions and other complex challenges.
- Addresses force structure, campaign, mission, and engagement level problems
- Supports a variety of analytic studies:
- Capability and investment trade-offs
- Operations analysis
- Risk assessments
- Military utility assessments
- Analyses of alternatives
- Logistics analysis
- Concept of operation development
- Provides unique, objective, and defensible evidence for making smart cost-effective decisions
Cyber Assassin
Model and cyber impact analysis
A modeling and simulation tool suite for cyber-impact analysis enabling analysts to visualize and analyze specific kill chains, facilitating in-depth study of vulnerability exploitation and mission impacts for Blue and Red alliances.
- Utilizes AI-based techniques to analyze real-world military operations
- Represents capabilities to the system/hardware level so analysts can identify equipment that provide a differentiating factor when completing a traditional warfare or cyber mission
- Provides end-to-end mission modeling to quantify real life and pertinent military scenarios
COMSTAT
Optimized deployment schedules
A customizable analytic tool that helps create effective force deployment schedules that include high-level estimates about force availability and mission accomplishment.
- Evaluates an asset’s ability to fulfill a mission within specific parameters: force structure, operating areas, deployment cycles, and during periods of unavailability
- Simulates operations to quantify force and schedule resilience to unplanned disruptions
- Provides insight into interactions between individual force assets that aggregate and average views do not provide
Model-Based Mission Engineering
Evaluate mission effectiveness
A mission effectiveness evaluation tool that enables the user to define, develop, refine, and evaluate complex system-of-systems solutions and digital twins using quantitative technical and operational metrics and proven Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles.
- Supports development and integration of MBSE models from the component-level to complex systems, platforms, and networks
- Links digital to physical by modeling physical behaviors (e.g., flight paths), basic orbital mechanics, and networks into a single, integrated environment for combined analytical insights
- Provides full interoperability by bringing the right, tailored level of fidelity across all relevant domains
Evaluate alternative forces, capabilities, and concepts
NSS
Evaluate alternative forces, capabilities, and concepts
Joint warfare simulation used to quantitatively evaluate alternative force structures, capabilities, CONOPS, and schemes of maneuver. Explicitly represents operations with a focus on mission-level C4ISR.
- Enables evaluation of operational plans through simulation of OPLAN execution vs. assessed threat to identify gaps and seams
- Analyzes exercises / experiments through simulation of planned / actual maneuver and CONOPS to maximize confidence building and investigate alternative approaches
- Examines operational concepts by simulating innovative warfighting concepts in demanding tactical environments to evaluate their relative efficacy
- Prioritizes force improvement by simulating alternative force capability mixes and rank according to quantitative impact on operational effectiveness
Wargaming and Mission Planning Environment
Plan missions and wargames
User-friendly digital display surface offering collaborative site training, mission planning, tabletop exercises and wargaming.
- Delivers force-on-force evaluation capability through seamless integration of geospatial, infrastructure, operational force, and other mission data tools and data tables in one immediately accessible place
- Provides a collaborative and user-driven environment with distributed users and multiplayer functionality to facilitate real-time collaboration and streamline communication and decision-making
- Allows mission planning in any domain and enables scenarios to be saved, loaded, and exported for future review and “report ready” visuals
Prescriptive Enterprise Forecasting
Future costs and resource allocations
A prescriptive analytics decision process that forecasts future costs and resource allocations with unprecedented accuracy.
- Empowers executive leaders to efficiently plan, enhance decision-making, and reduce costs while ensuring force and asset availability
- Enables data-driven decisions based on aligning plans and resources across the enterprise.
- Integrates planning activities through prescriptive analytics. Unique process provides a “Forward-looking Common Operating Picture.”
- Allows process to be applied to readiness of aircraft, ships, radars, pods, and manpower, and allows for exploration of “what if” scenarios
- Provides defensible requirements by explicitly linking budget marks to future shortfalls
CASE-T
Evaluate C-UAS System Performance
A suite of tools, uniquely qualified people, and proven processes to objectively evaluate the performance of C-UAS threat systems response in a variety of operational and geographical environments.
Approach is modularized and centered on three key offerings:
- Utilizes a variety of government, commercial and proprietary software tools to model expected performance of the C-UAS systems
- Enables real-world testing through live flight tests to evaluate and measure C-UAS system performance
- Provides performance analytics on data produced from real-world C-UAS tests, including fixed and rotary wing UAS, communication protocols, and C-UAS systems
