National Security

National Security and Logistics

SAIC's total logistics solutions are improving the operational availability of critical systems and reducing the total life-cycle costs of those systems. SAIC's integrated supply chain offering is helping the Department of Defense maintenance and supply organizations reduce costs and better serve warfighters.

Supply Chain Management: The Right Products at the Right Place at the Right Time

SAIC's Integrated Logistics Toolset (ILT) is a collection of state-of-the-art supply chain management tools. PurchasePlace™ is a web-based electronic order entry system that enables clients to access supply catalogs, place orders, submit requests for noncatalog items, and create custom status reports. PurchasePlace speeds delivery of required products, reduces total cost of ownership, and provides improved visibility into supply requirements, while reducing IT infrastructure. Parts List Universal System (PLUS) is a proprietary supply chain management system used to process purchase transactions.

Liquids Management: Enterprise-ready Asset Visibility and Management that Delivers

FuelsManager software and hardware products provide complete enterprise and bulk storage facility management, control and visibility of liquid petroleum assets at terminals, refineries, petrochemical plants, airports and military fuel facilities.

Force Integration: Platform Independent Sustainment for Agile Capabilities

SAIC was first to market with the Joint Logistics Integrator (JLI) capability that helped the Department of Defense rapidly field the Mine-Resistant, Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle, as well as train its users and maintenance crews, and sustain the vehicle in theater. We are now building upon these successes to offer solutions for many platforms. Complex integration challenges that require a system-of-systems approach, widespread deployment, and coordination with multiple original equipment manufacturers and suppliers are inevitable as the military moves away from a platform-centered model to one focused on capabilities as instantiated in fleets, formations, and functional chains (horizontal integration), logistics, sustainment and reset.

National Security and Biometrics

Distinguishing friend from foe is vital in national security. SAIC provides a number of ways to make that distinction — fingerprint, palm print, retina or iris pattern, voice signature and others. SAIC enables complete biometric identification and verification, from the quick and inexpensive to more complex and comprehensive, including controlling physical access to sensitive areas.

Credentialing: Positive Identification in Challenging Environments

Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) helps keep ports safe with a verifiable, biometricenabled credential for transportation workers. TWIC is in use at ports across the United States and is being implemented at train and trucking stations. Biometrics at Sea System (BASS) is a quick-reaction fingerprint and photobiometric capability to support homeland security operations for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Biometrics in the Battlespace: Distinguishing Friends from Adversaries

Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) is a portable, networked biometrics software solution that uses fingerprints, iris patterns and facial geometry for field identification for the Department of Defense. Biometrics Data Fusion: Fusing Biometrics with Intelligence Multimodal Exploitation Tool (MET) provides biometric exploitation of very large databases and watch lists, including terrorist watch lists. It has functionality for image quality analysis and enhancement, distributed algorithm processing, multimodal fusion and biometric and metadata search.

Acoustic Sensing: Filling the Gaps with Air Acoustics

Radar, cameras, infrared sensors and other optical sensing devices create an excellent picture, but they leave an information gap that is filled with SAIC's Air Acoustic sensing system. The non-line-of-sight system combines low-cost, off-the-shelf microphones with sophisticated, proprietary signal processing software to detect and precisely locate sources of sound simultaneously, in both audible and ultrasonic frequency ranges. SAIC's microphone arrays and signal processing software is vastly more sophisticated than older technologies used for sensing sound. The system can easily be worn or carried, or installed in vehicles or buildings.

National Security and Training

Training soldiers and other military personnel is expensive. SAIC helps reduce those costs by developing simulation products that don't use ammunition and improve training quality and consistency.

Common Driver Trainer: Enabling Readiness Through Immersive Simulation

SAIC's virtual simulators provide efficient, cost-effective, flexible, measurable and trackable immersive training to accelerate troop deployment and reduce the fuel and vehicle maintenance costs in theater. The Common Driver Trainer platform provides the basic architecture for a wide variety of drive platforms and interchangeable military vehicle cabs, which enables rapid prototyping of ground and air vehicle cabs for individual or networked virtual simulated training and dramatically reduces the cost of each simulator.

Tank Gunner Trainer: Advancing Technology of Serious Games

SAIC's proof-of-concept tank gunner trainer employs "serious gaming" technology to provide a low-cost training environment for complex training. The system, developed in conjunction with University of Central Florida students, provides the instrumentation of the M1Abrams gunner station in a deployable, low-cost form factor.

Evocative Training: Effectively Presenting Sensitive Topics

SAIC's Evocative Training is an effective approach for the most difficult and sensitive topics — from rape prevention to casualty assistance to suicide prevention. Documentary-style videos — with Hollywood-style production values and hard-hitting interviews — willingly take audiences to places they may not want to go. Companion print and web training materials reinforce the training and provide reference materials. SAIC's Evocative Training products are currently used by the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps and Army.

Ammunition-less Pistol: Saving Cost While Improving Safety

SAIC's ammunition-less pistol system uses the same technology as SAIC's conventional Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), but mounts on commercial, off-the-shelf airsoft-type BB guns. Trainees get the experience of using and handling weapons without the cost, environmental impact and safety issues of using blanks. For example, special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams can train in high schools and shopping malls after hours and avoid the significant cleanup required by blank, marking or paintball ammunition.

National Security and ISR

Imagine a bioterrorism attack at a nearby subway station. Using multiple SAIC technologies, this demonstration shows how a fully integrated tasking, collecting, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TCPED) system enables rapid, coordinated response.

Tasking: Directing Resources Based Upon Prioritized Needs

Tasking includes the planning and directing of ISR assets and resources—prioritizing collection requirements and forming the interface between consumers and producers of intelligence. SAIC is the company that "pulls it all together" with flexible technology solutions, including Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Requirements System (MRS), Integrated Intelligence System Simulator — Next Generation (IISYS-NG), C4ISR Space and Missile Operations Simulator (COSMOS), Mission Planning & Scheduling (MPS), and Planning tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization and Management (PRISM).

Collection: Gathering the Data to Support Decisions

Collection includes the gathering of data from multiple sources across all intelligence disciplines, seeking national, theater, and organic responses to meet mission needs while balancing between crisis and longerterm target priorities. SAIC's collection technologies cover different sources of sensor-based, human and open sources of information with a focus on how they can be developed, deployed, and operated in synergy, including Geospatial Enterprise Architecture Rack Intelligence Community (GEAR-IC), It Knows Everything (ike) 504, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), SensorWeb, and Urban Reality™.

Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination: Turning Information into Actionable Intelligence

The processing, exploitation and dissemination process fuses the wide array of often stovepiped data into information that can be understood and acted upon. SAIC's PED technologies provide an integrated and interoperable approach for all ISR resources vital to retaining information dominance, including Vision Inspired Spatial Engine (VISE), Service-Oriented Architecture Enterprise Framework (SOA-EF), WebCentric GeoSpatial Collaboration™, Target Monitoring Assistant (TMA) and Graphical Exploitation Reporting Tool (GERT), GeoRover® Software Products, Scalable Communications Advanced Network Suite (SCANS), MASINT Data Broker (MDB), and Sensor Processing Suite (SPS).