[ What We Do ]
Systems Engineering and Emerging Technology
Engineering the disruption that secures long-term mission dominance.
SPA combines operational expertise with advanced digital tools, such as high-fidelity digital twins and model-based architectures, to accelerate development timelines and enhance system resilience. We leverage emerging technologies like AI to outpace adversarial innovation and maintain mission dominance. By integrating rigorous systems engineering with leading-edge technologies, SPA architects resilient, multi-domain solutions, validates performance in complex environments, and ensures lifecycle optimization. This comprehensive approach enables leaders to adapt swiftly to dynamic threats and ensures long-term operational readiness.
How leaders benefit
Strengthen readiness with resilient, multi-domain systems and architectures.
Validate performance with simulations to mitigate operational risks.
Drive lifecycle optimization for sustained mission and technological dominance.
How we deliver impact
Architect resilient, multi-domain systems
Validate performance in simulated contested environments
Coordinate translation of technical analysis to effectively transmit critical findings
Counter disruptive technological breakthroughs
Optimize lifecycle and operational readiness
Mission-Ready R&D for DARPA
SPA provides end-to-end technical, analytical, and program execution support to DARPA, driving the mission lifecycle from concept development and technology management to financial analysis and transition. We advance critical research in proficient AI, resilient systems, and platform innovation by driving leading-edge innovations, refining early-stage ideas into actionable research, and creating secure architectures for contested environments. By facilitating the seamless integration of groundbreaking technologies into operational systems, we help ensure mission readiness and improve long-term strategic advantage.
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Accelerating Joint Kill Chain Integration
SPA uses Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to enhance kill chain development for Space Force wargames, the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), and Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2). This work also informs robotic formation concepts for US Army Human-Machine integration efforts.
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Improving CWMD Testing Through Integration
SPA strengthens DTRA’s ability to integrate complex systems within the CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) domain. During the HUMBLE JASMINE 3 (HJ3) test, SPA provided systems engineering and integration support to incorporate novel test articles, hyperspectral instrumentation, and data acquisition systems. This enhancement ensures that counter-WMD systems are rigorously tested, effective, and ready to address evolving threats safeguarding national and global security.
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Boosting Link-16 Performance with Digital Twins
SPA developed a digital twin of the Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) radio, incorporating more than 140,000 system-level requirements and integrating it into a CyberAssassin mission-level model to evaluate Link-16 network effectiveness of planned future capabilities.
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Advancing Emerging Technology Through Realistic Testing and Analysis
Using AthenaSight, SPA analysts examine emerging threat technologies to identify gaps in security systems and develop requirements and CONOPS to mitigate risks. Simulations and analyses allow clients to test concepts and technologies under realistic decision-making pressures, providing actionable insights that inform requirements, modernization strategies, and resource allocation.
Name,
Client
Mission-Ready R&D for DARPA
SPA provides end-to-end technical, analytical, and program execution support to DARPA, driving the mission lifecycle from concept development and technology management to financial analysis and transition. We advance critical research in proficient AI, resilient systems, and platform innovation by driving leading-edge innovations, refining early-stage ideas into actionable research, and creating secure architectures for contested environments. By facilitating the seamless integration of groundbreaking technologies into operational systems, we help ensure mission readiness and improve long-term strategic advantage.
Name,
Client
Accelerating Joint Kill Chain Integration
SPA uses Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to enhance kill chain development for Space Force wargames, the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), and Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2). This work also informs robotic formation concepts for US Army Human-Machine integration efforts.
Name,
Client
Improving CWMD Testing Through Integration
SPA strengthens DTRA’s ability to integrate complex systems within the CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) domain. During the HUMBLE JASMINE 3 (HJ3) test, SPA provided systems engineering and integration support to incorporate novel test articles, hyperspectral instrumentation, and data acquisition systems. This enhancement ensures that counter-WMD systems are rigorously tested, effective, and ready to address evolving threats safeguarding national and global security.
Name,
Client
Boosting Link-16 Performance with Digital Twins
SPA developed a digital twin of the Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) radio, incorporating more than 140,000 system-level requirements and integrating it into a CyberAssassin mission-level model to evaluate Link-16 network effectiveness of planned future capabilities.
Name,
Client
Advancing Emerging Technology Through Realistic Testing and Analysis
Using AthenaSight, SPA analysts examine emerging threat technologies to identify gaps in security systems and develop requirements and CONOPS to mitigate risks. Simulations and analyses allow clients to test concepts and technologies under realistic decision-making pressures, providing actionable insights that inform requirements, modernization strategies, and resource allocation.
Name,
Client
Empowering Decision-Makers for Strategic Superiority
Rapid Prototype Validation
Utilize digital twins to simulate hull stress and sensor integration, allowing for rapid prototyping of undersea vehicles without physical risk.
In-Orbit Evolution
Engineer modular satellite architectures that can be updated in-orbit to counter emerging kinetic and non-kinetic threats.
Autonomous Vulnerability Mitigation
Integrate embodied AI into network defense systems to autonomously identify and patch vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by adversarial actors.
Real-Time Spectrum Agility
Develop model-based engineering frameworks to rapidly reprogram signal-jamming capabilities in response to real-time electromagnetic spectrum shifts.
Technical Coordination
Provide rigorous assessment of reporting, products, and impact. Develop and manage reporting mechanisms and products that mitigate technical and programmatic communication risks.
