System Studies and Simulation, Inc.

Global Woman Owned Small Business

Technical & Engineering Core Competencies

S3 has an established, resident, technical/engineering staff to provide the customers with the expertise in Systems Engineering, Design, Development, Test, Training and Operations, and conducting IV & V. Our focus covers the definition of program objectives, constraints, and processes, followed by the development and employment of the associated metrics to facilitate control. We apply total systems engineering processes throughout a product's life cycle to reduce risk and eliminate surprises.
  • Systems Engineering
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  • Systems Analysis & Integration
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  • Configuration & Data Management
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  • Modeling & Simulation
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  • Software Engineering / Development
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  • Risk Management
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  • Testing & Evaluation
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  • Flight Hardware Verification
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  • Hardware / Software / IV&V
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    Systems Engineering:

    Systems Engineering is one of our key Core Competencies and we excel in providing the entire spectrum of functions covering the Project Life Cycle-Formulation Phase through the Implementation Phase.

    Functions:

  • System Requirements Analysis & Traceability
  • WBS Development
  • Trade Studies/Special Studies
  • Functional Analysis and Requirements Definition
  • Systems Engineering Documentation Development which includes: Project Plans; MOUs; Joint Implementation Plans; End-Item Specifications; Interface Control Documents (ICDs); Integration Requirements Documents (IRDs); Test Plans; Verification Plans; Payload Interface Agreement (PIA); Test Reports; and Verification (H/W and S/W)and Compliance
  • System Reviews Support Activities — Including Non-Advocate Reviews and Independant Assessment Reviews
  • Mission Documentation
  • Technology Assessement
  • Production and Producibility Analysis
  • Systems Engineering Course Development

    • Tools / Processes

  • DoD and NASA Systems Engineering Handbook / Practices
  • ISO 9001 Requirements



    • Systems Analysis & Integration:

    Functions:

  • System Concept Development
  • Functional Analysis & Synthesis
  • Systems Design Analyses (Structures, Thermal EMI/EMC, Vibration, Acoustics Control System)
  • Safety & Interface Analysis
  • Evaluation of Pre- and Post-Flight Mission Criteria and Successes as Part of IPT-Mission Documentation
  • Evaluation and Analysis of Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)
  • Systems Integration-Analytical and Physical Integration
  • Performance Metrics
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    Tools / Processes

  • NASTRAN, SINDA, MATLAB, MATRIXx, MATH/SIMULINK


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    Configuration & Data Management:

    Systems Engineering is one of our key Core Competencies and we excel in providing the entire spectrum of functions covering the Project Life Cycle-Formulation Phase through the Implementation Phase.

    Functions:
  • Configuration Management
  • Develop Configuration Management (CM) - Program/Project Specific Plans and CM Operating Procedures (CMOP)
  • Maintain Master List
  • Perform Secretarial Functions for Level II, Level III, and Level IV Boards
  • Compile, Maintain, and Update CDRLs
  • Manage and Maintain Review Item Discrepancy System (RIDS) Functional Database
  • Review Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)
  • Prepare, Modify and Disseminate Document and Drawing Trees
  • Prepare Data Packages for Review Boards and Meetings
  • Assist with Change Processing, Tracking, and Accounting System (CPTAS)
  • Perform Payload Operations Integration Functions
  • Real-time operations documentation
  • Perform System Administration and Software Configuration Management


    • Data Management:
  • Develop and Maintain Project-Specific Data Management Plans
  • Maintain Project Documentation
  • Support Project Review Process, Maintain Action Log, Track Action Items, and Manage All Change Processing
  • Coordinate, Prepare, and Disseminate Data Packages for Project Reviews
  • Log and Track End Item Verification Closures
  • Provide Database User Training


    • Electronic Library Management:
  • Develop and Maintain Electronic Libraries and Databases (Technical Documents, Engineering Drawings, and Photographs)
  • Control and Distribute Documents
    • Tools / Processes

  • Filemaker Pro, MS Access, Oracle, and SQL
  • Web-Based Automation for Linking Databases
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    Modeling & Simulation:

    Systems Engineering is one of our key Core Competencies and we excel in providing the entire spectrum of functions covering the Project Life Cycle-Formulation Phase through the Implementation Phase.

    Functions:
  • System Modeling- Hardware Systems/Subsystems

    •    - System Performance Simulation
       - Threat Simulation
       - System of Systems
  • Battlefield Digitization
  • Environmental Modeling- Rain

    •    - Celestial Backgrounds
       - Nuclear Effects
       - Chemical Effects
  • Process Modeling- Weapon System Production
  • Verification & Validation of Models & Simulations- Missile Systems
  • Planning & Decision Support Modeling- Bayesian Networks for Decision Models
  • Evaluation of Pre- and Post-Flight Mission Criteria and Successes as Part of IPT-Mission Documentation
  • Evaluation and Analysis of Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)
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    Tools / Processes

  • Analysis Tools: MATLAB, Mathematica, Extend, Matrixx, NETICA, EADSIM, EADTIS, CAPS, Simulink
  • Configuration Management Tools: ClearCASE, Razor, SCCS, RCS, CVS, MS SourceSafe
  • Programming Languages: C, Fortran, C++, Ada, Perl, Visual Basic, sh, ksh, Java, JavaScript, Matlab, Simulink
  • Processes: SEI Capability Maturity Model, Compliance with ISO 9000; CMM Level 2/3
  • Environments: Windows, LINUX, VxWorks, Unix and Unix derivatives
  • Tools: Automation of software testing

    • Software Engineering / Development:

    Functions:
  • Performance Specification Development
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Functional Allocation of Requirements
  • Embedded Software Design and Development
  • Real Time Software Design and Developement
  • Test Development
  • Verification & Validation
  • Software Maintenance
  • HW/SW/Process Simulations
  • Software Quality Engineering
  • Organizational Process Tailoring for SEI CMM Level 3 Certification
    • Tools / Processes

  • Analysis Tools: MATLAB, Mathematica, Extend, Matrixx, NETICA, EADSIM, EADTIS, CAPS, Simulink
  • Configuration Management Tools: ClearCASE, Razor, SCCS, RCS, CVS, MS SourceSafe
  • Programming Languages:vC, Fortran, C++, Ada, Perl, Visual Basic, sh, ksh, Java, JavaScript, Matlab, Simulink
  • Processes: SEI Capability Maturity Model, Compliance with ISO 9000; CMM Level 2/3
  • Environments: Windows, LINUX, VxWorks, Unix and Unix derivatives
  • Tools: Automation of software testing

    • Risk Management:

    Functions:
  • Assessment of Cost, Schedule, and Technical Data to Determine Overall Program/Project Level Risk and Recommendation of Actions for Risk Mitigation/Minimization
  • Development of Program/Project Risk Management Plan
  • Engineering Analysis to Evaluate Impacts on Reliability, Safety and Cost
  • Management of Materiel Release Review Board (MRRB) Documentation Packages and Activities
  • Provide Quality Engineering Piece Part Component Qualification Expertise to Assess Conformance and to Mitigate Obsolescence
  • Mitigate Risk by Conducting Production Readiness Reviews, Audit Teams (PCA and FCA) and Quality Process Reviews at the Contractor's Plant
  • Evaluate Contractor Production Acceptance Criteria/Procedures, as well as Rating of Vendor's Present/Past Performance
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    Tools / Processes

  • ColdFusion
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • XML

    • Testing & Evaluation:

    Functions:
  • Develop, coordinate and have configuration management of numerous TEMPs
  • Conduct reliability prediction analysis, assess actual reliability performance in DT and OT and analyze test results
  • Fabricate, assemble, support, maintain and operate the only U.S. threat armor remote control target vehicle array
  • Assist in all aspects of DT test data gathering, sorting and analysis
  • Coordinate all aspects of the T&E IPT activities
  • Provide quality engineering piece part component qualification including Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits (PEMs) and help mitigate obsolescence
  • Provide system engineering support, including the preparation and review of specifications, ESS and qualification requirements, lot acceptance testing (LAT) criteria, final acceptance testing and evaluation of contractor's plans/reports
  • Develop and conduct Environmental Qualification tests that ensure product meets operational/storage requirements and will also function in extreme conditions
  • Conduct Production Pilot Line (PPL) and Production Readiness Reviews (PRR) to establish capability of contractor to build acceptable product and meet production rates
  • Provide failure analysis and maintain the FRACAS database to establish the failure causes and validate corrective actions.
  • Test support and technical analysis, to include operation of system hardware
  • Engineering and technical evaluations of test plans and technical reports to include data reduction and analysis
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    Flight Hardware Verification:

    Functions:
  • Conduct Review of Test Plans for Adequacy of Testing to Comply with Verification Requirements
  • Compile Analyses and Test Data for Verification Closures
  • Develop Matrices for Environmental Status of Components and Subsystems
  • Perform Verification Closure
  • Conduct Operational Quality Assessments for tests using Flight Conditions as Part of the Environmental Qualification tests
  • Support the Validation of the Hardware, Software and Diagnostic Software of the Acceptance Test Equipment
  • Participate in Test Readiness Reviews (TRR) and Flight Readiness Reviews (FRR), Conducted to Determine Flight Hardware/Software Readiness and to Document Any Potential Anomalies
  • Support All Testing Phases
  • Technical Analysis of Missile System Performance
  • Technical Support of Failure Analyses Activities


    • Hardware / Software / IV&V:

    Functions:
  • Requirements Trace Verification
  • Design Reviews and Verification
  • Test Evaluation and Verification
  • Software Testing
  • Test Analysis
  • Evaluation of Procedures and Acceptance Process, as well as Recommendation of Hardware/Software Changes to Configuration Change Board (CCB)
  • Participate in FCA and PCA to Verify Product Meets Functional And Engineering Documented Requirements
  • Provide Qualification Plan, Procedures and Oversight of Tests that will Result in an Acceptable Product that is Documented in an Approved Qualification Report
  • Conduct Audit of Proof of Station of Test Equipment and Test Software to Verify that Hardware Accepted Meets Requirements
  • Engineering Support to Evaluate System Interfaces
  • Conducts Independent Software Verification and Validation of Proposed or Actual Changes to Missile Software
  • Assurance of Interface Requirements between Missile and Submunition
  • Systems Integration-Analytical and Physical Integration
  • Performance Metrics
  • Software Validation
    • Tools / Processes

  • Analysis Tools: MATLAB, Mathematica, Extend, Matrixx, NETICA, EADSIM, EADTIS, CAPS, Simulink
  • Configuration Management Tools: ClearCASE, Razor, SCCS, RCS, CVS, MS SourceSafe
  • Programming Languages:
    • C, Fortran, C++, Ada, Perl, Visual Basic, sh, ksh, Java, JavaScript, Matlab, Simulink
  • Processes: SEI Capability Maturity Model, Compliance with ISO 9000; CMM Level 2/3
  • Environments: Windows, LINUX, VxWorks, Unix and Unix derivatives
  • Tools: Automation of software testing
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    Programmatics / Logistics / Science / Information Technologies / Unique Competencies

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