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Technology
Powered by advanced modeling and AI/ML, SPA delivers smarter integration, defensible insights, and measurable savings—driving mission success and earning a legacy of direct awards.
Our top tech, hand-crafted for decision-making
Empower defense planning with flexible, data-driven modeling that reveals risk, optimizes resources, and informs strategic decisions.
Model cyber threats and their mission impacts to strengthen defenses, enhance readiness, and improve mission success.
Create schedules that save time and help decision makers meet challenges with informed solutions.
Forecast costs and resource allocations by combining operational expertise, authoritative data, and prescriptive analytics.
Fly real adversary-style drones against your defenses to reveal gaps vendor demos can’t show you
A mission-focused toolset to evaluate aerial threats, operational effectiveness, and C-UAS defense operations across complex settings.
Quantitatively evaluate alternative maritime force structures, capabilities, concepts of operations, and schemes of maneuver.
Inside Our Tech
A powerful simulation technology for military operations, national security, and complex challenges.
- Address force structure and campaign-, mission-, and engagement-level problems
- Support 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
- Obtain unique, objective, and defensible evidence for making smart, cost-effective decisions
A cyber impact modeling and simulation suite enabling analysts to visualize and analyze specific kill chains, facilitating in-depth study of vulnerability exploitation and mission impacts for Blue and Red alliances.
- Utilize AI-based techniques to analyze real-world military operations
- Represent capabilities to the system/hardware level so analysts can identify equipment that provide a differentiating factor when completing a traditional warfare or cyber mission
- Gain end-to-end mission modeling to quantify real life and pertinent military scenarios
A customizable analytic software that helps create effective force deployment schedules including high-level estimates about force availability and mission accomplishment.
- Optimize planning using mathematical methods that connect goals, requirements, and rules to produce “best possible” schedules
- Simulate reality using Monte Carlo methods to inject schedules with random “disruptions” to replicate operational challenges
- Quantify trade-offs by rapidly building and comparing different scenarios with clear, intuitive schedule-based metrics and visualizations
A mission effectiveness evaluation 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
User-friendly digital display surface offering collaborative site training, mission planning, tabletop exercises, and wargaming.
- Enable force-on-force through seamless integration of geospatial, infrastructure, operational force, and other mission data tech and data tables in one accessible place
- Enjoy a collaborative and user-driven environment with distributed users and multiplayer functionality to facilitate real-time collaboration and streamline communication and decision-making
- Plan missions in any domain and enable scenarios to be saved, loaded, and exported for future review and “report ready” visuals
- Allow users of any experience level to design and implement wargame scenarios, promoting authentic operational discussions and stakeholder engagement
A prescriptive analytics decision process that forecasts future readiness and resource allocations with unprecedented accuracy.
- Empower executive leaders to efficiently plan and reduce costs while ensuring force and asset availability
- Make data-driven decisions based on aligning plans and resources across the enterprise
- Integrate planning activities through prescriptive analytics; unique process provides a “Forward-looking Common Operating Picture”
- Apply process to readiness of aircraft, ships, radars, pods, and manpower, and allows for exploration of “what-if” scenarios
- Provide defensible requirements by explicitly linking budget marks to future shortfalls
A live-flight testing and threat emulation team, backed by in-house drone fabrication and proven methodology, that objectively evaluates C-UAS system performance across operational and geographical environments for the nation’s top defense and security agencies.
- Model expected C-UAS system performance using government, commercial, and proprietary software before testing begins
- Conduct live-flight adversary testing at bases and critical sites, flying real drones to evaluate and measure system performance against real-world threats
- Deliver performance analytics from testing data, covering fixed- and rotary-wing UAS, communication protocols, and C-UAS systems
A mission-focused toolset for evaluating aerial threats, operational effectiveness, and C-UAS defense operations across complex settings.
- Assesses operational C-UAS effectiveness – learn about our full lifecycle C-UAS offerings
- Examines layered defense strategies
- Enables threat modeling and operational assessment
Joint maritime warfare C5ISR-centric mission- to campaign-level simulation used to quantitatively evaluate alternative force structures, warfighting capabilities, OPLANS, CONOPS, and schemes of maneuver.
- Assess alternative force capability mixes by evaluating quantitative impacts on operational effectiveness
- Evaluate the impact of warfighting capabilities (ISR, communications, data fusion, state estimation, consumption/replenishment) on force warfighting effectiveness
- Evaluate OPLANs against assessed threats to identify gaps and seams
- Examine postulated operational concepts in demanding tactical environments to evaluate their relative efficacy
- Analyze exercises/experiments through simulation of planned/actual maneuver and CONOPS to rank alternative approaches