Survivability Analysis and Assessment

QUANTUM HAS PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN THE SYSTEMS SURVIVABILITY ARENA SINCE 1988.  OUR FIRST WORK IN THIS AREA WAS PROVIDING THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE (TMD) SURVIVABILITY ASSESSMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE U.S. ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND.  SUBSEQUENTLY, WE HAVE SUPPORTED, VIA PRIME CONTRACTS SINCE AUGUST 1992, THE U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY SURVIVABILITY/ LETHALITY ANALYSIS DIRECTORATE (ARL SLAD).  WE PROVIDE ARL SLAD OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF TECHNOLOGY ALTERNATIVES TO REDUCE THE VULNERABILITY AND ENHANCE THE LETHALITY OF U.S. WEAPON SYSTEMS.

Quantum employs the operational and combat experience of its staff and its close association with Army combat developers and materiel developers to help ARL/SLAD enhance the visibility and stress the importance of survivability and lethality issues to soldiers. In August 1999, we began providing battlefield survivability evaluation support to the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC).  More recently we have been helping ARL/SLAD reengineer its products and processes to more efficiently assist the Army transform itself into the Army Chief of Staff’s vision for a full spectrum force, strategically responsive and dominant.  Our core competencies in the survivability area include, but are not limited to, the following

• Developing The Army Systems Survivability Summary (TASSS).

• Developing short-, mid- and long-term strategies consistent with the Army Modernization Strategy.

• Assessing soldier survivability concepts.

• Reviewing, analyzing, and characterizing threats to U.S. personnel and systems.

• Developing analytical tools for assessing the impact on threats to existing and projected U.S. systems and subsystems.

• Assessing advanced survivability and lethality-related technologies.

• Developing and maintaining automated management tools and databases to assist in formulating, executing, and maintaining control and visibility of survivability, lethality, and vulnerability (SLV) analysis programs.

• Providing military operational and combat perspectives on survivability and lethality issues.

• Coordinating with combat developers to ensure they address survivability issues early in the system acquisition process.

• Reviewing survivability requirements and standards for U.S. systems.

• Assisting in conducting laboratory tests, field tests, and demonstrations of survivability-related equipment and systems.

• Assisting in providing evaluation support of battlefield survivability of weapon and support systems in terms of blast and projectile  impact, electromagnetic interference, high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, electronic counter-countermeasures, and nuclear, biological and chemical environments.

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