Defense

Network-Centric Operations

As a leader in the emerging area of network-centric operations, we are helping the military achieve a powerful competitive edge through advanced networked capabilities, shared situational awareness, improved collaborative planning, and enhanced speed and agility. Key projects include:

Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE)
Getting Warfighters the right information at the right place and time requires a worldwide network with enormous bandwidth. The new Global Information Grid envisioned by DoD benefits from important SAIC contributions throughout its architecture. For example, SAIC helps lead integration of the network's cornerstone - the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) program. GIG-BE is bringing an optical mesh network with 10-gigabyte-per-second connectivity to about 100 DoD bases, posts and stations. Moreover, GIG-BE achieved initial operating capability in only 20 months.

Net-Centric Enterprise Service (NCES)
To exploit the bandwidth capabilities provided by GIG-BE, SAIC is supporting the DoD Net-Centric Enterprise Service (NCES) initiative. NCES will provide the software services framework to enable information sharing and collaboration by future command and control, business, and intelligence systems. SAIC's team is providing systems architecture, technical integration, and technology deployment support to DISA as the agency pilots capabilities to Defense Computer Centers.

SAIC also previously integrated the lead joint military command and control system that will operate over the GIG (the Global Command and Control System-Joint).

All of this gives SAIC absolutely unmatched expertise in command and control and network-centric technologies.

New Operational Concepts for New Threats

Transformation requires continuous innovation. As a pioneer in the Revolution in Military Affairs, SAIC has been instrumental in developing much of the conceptual foundation for DoD's approach to transformation. For example, we helped develop, test, and refine such capstone concepts as dominant maneuver and long-range precision strike.

SAIC is at the heart of defense transformation at U.S. Joint Forces Command, the "transformation laboratory" for the U.S. military, and at NATO's Allied Command Transformation. Our analysts develop future warfighting concepts, such as Effects Based Operations and Operational Net Assessments, which require a rich systemic understanding of opponents and operational environments. Many of these concepts are being implemented today. For example, our support to joint urban operations includes concept modeling and analysis with the Joint Semi-Automated Forces simulation system, resulting in better understanding of urban operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For the Joint National Training Capability, SAIC is helping develop a persistent, global network of live, virtual, and constructive simulation components that serves as a seamless training environment to joint and service forces. This key transformation initiative and others are supported from SAIC's new facility in Suffolk, Virginia, where the Joint System of Systems Collaborative Environment Laboratory serves as a portal to the network. Our analysts also identify and develop new intelligence and C4ISR technologies for joint forces.

Training for the Future

Transformational systems of systems rely on well-trained forces and well-designed software, both of which need to perform successfully when called up. Simulation software developed by SAIC promises to be the new "gold standard" in both areas: training and software design.

OneSAF®
Designed for the U.S. Army, OneSAF® (One Semi-Automated Forces) simulation software was chosen as the simulation engine for the Army Future Combat Systems, named one of the Top U.S. Government Software Projects, and adapted by the Marine Corps for use in their Combined Arms Staff Trainer.

OneSAF's flexible architecture allows users to configure computer generated force systems exactly as they need to support their simulation requirements. Training, experimentation, and analysis users can quickly adapt the system to their needs with the system's tools.

Common Driver Trainer Stryker Variant (CDT/SV)
The Stryker Variant is the Army's first deployment of a product line of highly flexible, full-motion virtual simulators based on the Common Driver Trainer architecture. The CDT architecture allows driver cabs to be interchanged while using a common motion base, visual display, After Action Review station, and instructor-operator station. Future vehicle cabs may include tanks, tactical wheeled vehicles, or engineering equipment.

Technology Transformation

We develop leading-edge technologies to solve complex problems facing our forces. For example, we are exploring solutions to better protect combat vehicles from rocket-propelled grenades and other threats. Working with the Army Research Laboratory, we successfully demonstrated an electromagnetic (EM) armor system to protect a combat vehicle's flank.

EM armor and electric weapons require large amounts of pulsed electric power. At the same time, future combat vehicles must be lighter weight, more mobile, and more fuel-efficient. Hybrid electric power systems promise to meet all these requirements once major technical challenges are overcome. We are working to overcome these technical challenges at a systems integration laboratory we helped build and operate for the Army.

Lighter, more efficient power is also the goal for radios, computers, and hand-held GPS units, and for our DARPA-funded research in nanocomposite photovoltaic technology.

Base Realignment

Our wide-ranging environmental services support the transformation and realignment of DoD missions, facilities, and systems. We support property remediation through full-service environmental remediation contracts with the Army. And we provide environmental assessment, analysis, and compliance support to the Air Force and Navy.