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MSIS and Team Members: Experience
As a small business, we are very pleased to present our capabilities in 19 of the 22 functional areas. In addition to the twelve product areas, we have specified the product area of "Other - NASA IV&V" because we want to highlight the following our current multi-million dollar contract as a subcontractor to TASC, Inc. for work to support the IV&V of NASA systems.
Table I-1 presents the functional areas that are discussed on this Web page and shows the product areas that each of the MSIS Team Members supports. To proceed directly to a functional area, click on the link for that functional area in the left-hand column of Table I-1.
To view specific U.S. Navy programs with associated functional areas supported, see Table I-2.
| MSIS | EG&G | BAE | ManTech | EKN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | Other - NASA IV&V | Ships and Ships Systems, Strategic Weapons Systems | Undersea Warfare Weapons and Vehicles | ||
| 3.2 | Surface Ship Combat Systems | Ships and Ships Systems, Force Level Warfare Systems | |||
| 3.3 | Force Level Warfare Systems, Homeland Security and Force Protection | ||||
| 3.4 | Surface Ship Combat Systems | Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance | |||
| 3.5 | Ships and Ships Systems | Force Level Warfare Systems | Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance | ||
| 3.6 | Surface Ship Combat Systems | Surface Ship Combat Systems, Strategic Weapons Systems | |||
| 3.7 | Other-NASA IV&V | Strategic Weapons Systems, Ships and Ships Systems | |||
| 3.8 | |||||
| 3.9 | Other-NASA IV&V | Ships and Ships Systems, Ordnance | |||
| 3.10 | Surface Ship Combat Systems | ||||
| 3.11 | Ships and Ships Systems, Strategic Weapons Systems | Ships and Ships Systems | |||
| 3.12 | Surface Ship Combat Systems, Other-NASA IV&V | Force Level Warfare Systems, Strategic Weapons Systems | |||
| 3.13 | |||||
| 3.14 | Ships and Ships Systems, Ordnance, Force Level Warfare Systems | ||||
| 3.15 | Ships and Ships Systems, Ordnance | ||||
| 3.16 | Ordnance, Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance | Littoral Warfare Systems, Ships and Ships Systems | Other - OSD, USTRANSCOM, USEUCOM | ||
| 3.17 | Strategic Weapons Systems | ||||
| 3.18 | Surface Ship Combat Systems | Other - TSI/NSWC Indianhead | Other - US Dept of Defense | ||
| 3.19 | Surface Ship Combat Systems | Strategic Weapons Systems, Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance | |||
| 3.20 | Surface Ship Combat Systems, Strategic Weapons Systems | Force Level Warfare Systems | |||
| 3.21 | Ships and Ships Systems | Ships and Ships Systems | |||
| 3.22 |
3.1 Research and Development Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Other - Nasa IV&V |
MSIS previously held a prime contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to perform research in the area of predicting software failures and faults based on
- The characteristics of computer program Computer Software Components (CSCs) and Computer Software Configuration Items (CSCIs) as analyzed using a software interface analysis tool, and
- The software faults reported in the previous Project Issue Tracking System (PITS).
MSIS was tasked to design and build software to link the output from both tools to generate input for machine learning tools to be used to look for trends and patterns relating software features and characteristics to software faults. The objective of this project was to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V).
MSIS provided support to The Titan Corporation at the NASA IV&V Facility in Fairmont, WV, with research and development support from June 1999 until 2005. During that time, MSIS performed research and experimentation on existing issue tracking technology to ensure that future modifications to the issue tracking system included key concepts and technologies. Research and experimentation was also conducted on existing earned value management tools and reporting methods to increase understanding of associated approaches, calculations, techniques, and analysis methods. This understanding was later applied to the development of an earned value tool and of reporting methods.
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems |
EG&G has provided consulting services to weapon system developers and manufacturers of electronic systems during initial stages of system development. This effort involved evaluating prototype and engineering development models of systems and providing technical and engineering recommendations for systems hardening and resolution of susceptibilities.
| Strategic Weapons Systems |
Additional experience includes conducting R&D in the areas of ballistic missile trajectory, guidance, and atmospheric conditions as they apply to ballistic missile reentry systems, and methods for the application of strategic ballistic missile systems. This effort involves performing research on the calculation of electric fields produced by a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon. Research and findings were documented in numerous technical memoranda including "Thermal Radiation From a Spherical Fireball" and "Derivation of a Simple Model of Spherical Fireball Hydrodynamic Growth."
| BAE Systems | Undersea Warfare Weapons and Vehicles |
BAE Systems provides complete operations and maintenance for the Large Scale Vehicle (LSV) 1 & 2 autonomous submarine scale models to support R&D acoustic projects for NSWCDD. BAE Systems’ Program Manager, Alan Mason (BS), has been working on the LSVs for over 13 years and is familiar with the LSV HM&E, RNDAAS, ODAS, GNC, and DPS systems.
3.2 Engineering, System Engineering, and Process Engineering Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
MSIS supports the Aegis Weapon System (AWS) elements under a subcontract with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). MSIS was responsible for developing the Tactical Graphics Capabilities (TGC) Transfer Airways program and supported shipboard engineering testing of the program, along with installation. The Transfer Airways was developed to be more efficient in performing monthly updates of the ship’s airways database. This became more of an issue after 9/11/01. This program makes it easier for B/L 5.3.x ships to keep the airline routes current.
MSIS provides systems engineering support for the Combat Direction System (CDS) and Aegis Tactical Executive System (ATES) at the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC), reducing and analyzing test data to support Element Testing. For certain tests, data is analyzed to determine if the system is working correctly. When problems are seen at the display, or when other errors propagate, data is analyzed to determine if the problem is with the system, or with the simulation.
In addition, this work involves providing research in other technical topics and often reviewing the work products of other systems engineers. MSIS provides engineering support for developmental and advanced architecture computer programs and assists the user community in the use of tactical programs, non-tactical programs, and program generation tools. This activity involves the implementation, research, and demonstration of the respective computer system with an emphasis on exercising the complete combat suite and demonstrating the system’s capabilities. MSIS personnel take an active role in the testing of the combat suite and often mentor other computer systems engineers.
In recent years, the United States Navy has transitioned from their legacy computer systems to a more modern COTS technology computing environment. MSIS has been involved in the COTS environment development and now supports both the legacy and COTS systems. As the COTS environment continues to be developed, MSIS investigates and provides research in technical topics with other engineers. Tasks include researching the internal details of the COTS utilities, UNIX/Operating System (OS) environment kernels, and each kernel’s functionality. This tasking requires knowledge of the OS environment, the programming languages, how these utilities work, and how to recreate/build them effectively.
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems |
EG&G provides systems engineering support to Navy and Marine Corps weapon systems and weapons control systems. This support focuses on determining the level of risk associated with those systems, for both developmental and deployed environments. It involves implementation of systems engineering analysis techniques, risk assessment, program planning, configuration and change control, trend analyses and studies, and direct support to the Weapon System Explosive Safety Review Board (WSESRB) and Software System Safety Technical Review Panel (SSSTRP) for process engineering topics. Specific programs that have been supported are shown in Table I-2.
| Ships and Ships Systems, Force Level Warfare Systems |
EG&G has additional experience including: concept formulation, design, development and validation of expeditionary force ship radars, combat direction systems, subsystems, total ship networks, and software development. Systems include the Ship Wide Area Networks (SWANs), a fiber optic-based ship-wide area network, and the Integrated Combat Direction System (ICDS), which digitally integrates the ship’s current combat system with new weapons systems and sensors; engineering support in the analysis, design, and specifications for the conversion of four TRIDENT Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN) to Guided Missile Submarines (SSGN). EG&G also participated in engineering studies by the Architecture Working Group to determine system requirements; developing major sections of the Attack Weapon Control System (AWCS) Concept of Operations (CONOPS) document and an SSGN Weapon Control System Program Management Plan; Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS); and RF engineering support for the AN/SPY-1’s Coherent Data Collection System (CDCS).
3.3 Modeling, Simulation, Stimulation, and Analysis Support
| EG&G | Force Level Warfare Systems |
EG&G provides developmental and operational support for the Multi-warfare Assessment and Research System (MARS), Tactical Situation Display (TSD), the Fleet AAW Model for Comparison of Tactical Systems (FACTS), the Extended Air Defense Test Bed (EADTB), the Kinematic Interceptor Model (KIM), the Extended Air Defense Simulation (EADSIM) and the Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD) End-to-End Demonstration System (ETEDS) program.
This effort includes participating in Commander-in-Chief level and Joint exercises and experiments by providing operators and technicians for the MARS simulator, and support exercises and experiments for both the Navy Area (endo-atmospheric) and NTW (exo-atmospheric) programs. EG&G also employs the MARS simulation to analyze both Navy Area and NTW TBMD platforms and manage and support MARS exercises by setting simulation parameters, initializing, operating, and troubleshooting the system.
| Homeland Security and Force Protection |
EG&G’s additional experience includes providing user interface, utility programming and software integration support in JAVA, C/C++ and FORTRAN for Vapor, Liquid, Solid Tracking (VLSTRACK) chemical/biological weapon simulation model and for Mesoscale Environmental Simulations & Operations (MESO), the follow-on program to VLSTRACK. VLSTRACK is an environmental computer model used by the Joint Services and other major governmental agencies to determine the dispersion and contamination effects of biological and chemical agents. This effort includes adding new capabilities to interface with external systems as required.
3.4 Prototyping, Pre-Production, Model-Making, and Fabrication Support
| EG&G | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
EG&G defined and developed the Cooperative Engagement Processor (CEP) benchmark analysis tool to evaluate and assess Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) processor performance against the US Government 2 (USG-2) system. EG&G currently designs and develops computer programs in C/C++ for the Enhanced Radar Data Display System (ERDDS) and integrates software products for the Solaris/Vx Works operating system. EG&G performs system test and integration, develops test plans and procedures, and maintains hardware/software configuration control databases. EG&G also develops pulse Doppler processing algorithms for the High Range Resolution (HRR) program.
| ManTech Enterprise Integration Center | Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance |
ManTech e-IC was responsible for providing the Interoperability Engine, a system for information interchange between independently developed external systems, for the prototype Mission Readiness Assessment System (MRAS) for the initial Shipboard Integration Logistics System (SILS) development effort. SILS is an idea developed and sponsored by Dr. Philip Abraham at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Technology developed under SILS was planned to be ultimately a system of systems (i.e., a group of fully integrated products for Information Management and Knowledge Engineering that begins at the deck plates) providing the ship’s Commanding Officer a capability for semi-autonomous mission readiness decision analysis, and envisioned to expand in a series of development prototypes to all echelons up to and including the Fleet. MRAS is composed of two sub-systems, the Mission Readiness Assessment Tool (MRAT) and Interface Engine (IE). For a majority of the work, ManTech e-IC received guidance and direction from a SILS Management Team that consisted of the ONR sponsor, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division at Philadelphia, PA, the CNSP/CNSF Science and Technology Advisor, and a Fleet advocate from CPF N4F.
3.5 System Design Documentation and Technical Data Support
| BAE Systems | Force Level Warfare Systems |
BAE Systems performs engineering and technical support services for all current and future versions of the Tomahawk Weapon Control System (TWCS), both Track Control Group (TCG) and Launch Control Group (LCG) elements, the Advanced Tomahawk Weapon Control System (ATWCS), and the Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System (TTWCS) (both the United States (US) and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) configurations). In the performance of these contracts, BAE has developed and assessed requirements for proposed enhancements to baseline software and testing, and produced and/or reviewed all levels of WCS documentation, e.g., Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), Software Detail Design (SDD), Database Design Specifications (DBDS), and Software User Manuals (SUM).
BAE Systems also provided ISEA support to NAVSEA Port Hueneme, NAVSEA Crane, and NAVSEA HQ (PMS 430) as it relates to the Battle Force Tactical Training (BFTT) System. BAE developed and reviewed BFTT System Specification, System Engineering Management Program, System Segment Design Documents (SSDDs), Configuration Management Plan (CMP), Software Development Plan (SDP), Computer Resources Life Cycle Management Plan (CRLCMP), Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Plan, Interface Design Documents (IDD), Interface Requirements Specification (IRS), and Interface Requirements Document (IRD). Personnel also provided technical engineering research and analysis to develop and maintain the BFTT System Manual (SM) required for effective training, operation, and maintenance of the BFTT system. This effort included developing SUMs for BFTT Operational Program Software.
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems |
EG&G provides system design, documentation and technical data support to Navy and Marine Corps weapon systems and weapon control systems as it relates to system safety engineering in order to determine the level of risk associated with those systems, for both developmental and deployed environments. This effort involves implementation of safety documentation maintenance. Specific programs that have been supported are shown in Table I-2.
| ManTech Engineering Integration Center | Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance |
ManTech e-IC developed the NATO Integrated Technical Data (ITD) Interoperability Roadmap describing existing U.S. and NATO technical manual specifications, current efforts for ITD specifications, and recommendations for future interoperability efforts. The team designed and developed a software prototype to demonstrate the use of NATO S1000D standard data modules. It recommended additions to the S1000D specification to accommodate state-driven dynamic processing.
Currently, ManTech e-IC is defining the conversion process and converting U.S. DoD page-oriented technical manual "Descriptive and Procedural" sections to S1000D data modules. It is Converting U.S. DoD technical manual "Fault Isolation" sections to S1000D data modules, and augmenting converted data modules with state-driven dynamic constructs. The team is designing and developing a software prototype to display all converted data modules including state-driven dynamic processing. It is determining the conversion process metrics for complexity of data module types and identification of areas where S1000D may require enhancement.
3.6 Software Engineering, Development, Programming, and Network Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
MSIS supports the Aegis Weapon System (AWS) under a subcontract to Computer Sciences Corporation. This effort involves the systematic validation, isolation, implementation, and unit test of Computer Program Change Requests (CPCRs), Specification Changes (SCs), and Interface Change Requests (ICRs) in customer-directed Baseline (B/L) upgrade efforts (e.g., B/Ls 5.3.x, 6.1.x, and 6.3.x). MSIS supports Element Change Control Boards (ECCBs) through the validation of selected CPCRs, SCs, and ICRs, and assists in the resolution of software issues (e.g., Test Observation Reports) through the development of various technical analysis reports (e.g., WSPAs). The AWS elements involved in this work include the Combat Direction System (CDS), the Aegis Tactical Executive System (ATES) and more recently work in the area of developing the Aegis Open Environment (OE).
This work involves analyzing and resolving problems in tactical weapon and utility computer programs; developing proposed computer program code changes; conducting regression testing; generating test procedures, and documentation changes as appropriate.
MSIS is currently supporting the Aegis Tactical Operating Environment (ATOE) and Aegis Reusable Components (ARC). This effort involves validation, isolation, and implementation of CPCRs for ATOE and ARC components in customer directed baseline (B/L) upgrade efforts (e.g. B/Ls 6.1.x, 6.3.x, and 7.1.x). MSIS is currently responsible for developing new middleware components for the Open Architecture (OA) effort, helping to develop the Enhanced Radar Data Display System (ERDDS). ERDDS is considered middleware because its underlying concepts could be used in the future for other elements to analyze data before it has been manipulated.
| EG&G | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
EG&G is providing software and development support to the Navy’s High Performance Distributed Computing System (HiPer-D), a distributed, highly redundant computer networking environment that will be used on future surface combatants. Additionally, EG&G is providing the lead technical expert in Operating Systems supporting the Standards and Technologies Integrated Product Team (IPT) for the Navy Open Architecture effort, as well as the validation effort within the project.
| Strategic Weapons Systems |
EG&G develops and maintains software that supports the generation (at USSTRATCOM), processing and validation (at NSWCDD) of the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) strategic targeting data. Team members design, develop, and test SLBM fire control software used for fire control prelaunch computations and for the expansion of Targeting Change Messages (TCMs) transmitted to the fleet. The SLBM software development team has been assessed at Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 2.
3.7 Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A) Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Other - Nasa IV&V |
MSIS analyzed flight software system requirements during the NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) IV&V support effort as a subcontractor with The Titan Corporation. Requirements were traced through development levels for consistency and compared to flight source code development and design. A goal of IV&V is to ensure reliability, maintainability, and availability of software and systems. Deficiencies in the requirements as well as conflicts between written requirements were identified and submitted to the project developers for reassessment. System requirements were traced to system test procedures to confirm that all system functionality was tested and verified. Extensive code analysis of the entire MER Flight Software (FSW) source code was completed for 11 FSW development releases. Lint debugging software and McCabe complexity analyzers were applied. Over 400 issues were submitted to the development team for review.
By request from the MER project, MSIS personnel also debugged Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) firmware after post-launch coding errors were uncovered. MSIS personnel also attended numerous code reviews and project readiness review meetings at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA during the three year MER IV&V effort. As an indicator of the impact of the MER IV&V effort, JPL management has expressed interest in the MER IV&V final report as a means for improving development procedures for future NASA missions.
| EG&G | Strategic Weapons Systems, Ships and Ships Systems |
EG&G has performed detection and correction of design deficiencies, weak parts, and workmanship defects in SLBM storage media including the identification of a firmware bug in tactical hard drives. This effort has also included performing market research to determine product availability and End-of-Life information for Nuclear Power Guided Missile Submarine (SSGN) and SLBM Fire Control Systems Mod 6/7.
3.8 Human Factors Engineering Support
The MSIS team does not present this functional area.
3.9 System Safety Engineering Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Other - Nasa IV&V |
MSIS supported the NASA IV&V Facility by participating in the Checkout and Launch Control System (CLCS) Legacy Software Safety Audit from October 2001 through April 2002 with various personnel from the Kennedy Space Center. The audit was initiated by the CLCS project and began by creating a series of checklists written to comply with the NASA software safety standard 8719.13A. Some of the safety considerations included program health monitoring, dynamic memory management, exception catching and propagation, and usage of synchronization mechanisms. MSIS personnel analyzed nine of the code modules specified by the audit and uncovered 132 specific inconsistencies. Following completion of the audit the MSIS employee supporting the effort was awarded with a NASA Certificate of Recognition from the CLCS Project Team for excellent support of the CLCS Legacy Software Safety Audit.
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems, Ordnance |
EG&G provides engineering and technical expertise in the evaluation of military aircraft, ordnance, and electrical/electronic equipment to the Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO), Intersystem Electromagnetic Compatibility / Electromagnetic Vulnerability (EMC/EMV), Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel (HERP), and Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Fuel (HERF). Personnel plan, coordinate and report test results utilizing ground planes, anechoic and reverberation chambers, Naval Ordnance Transient Electromagnetic Simulator (NOTES) and shipboard and land-based platforms at Government facilities such as: NAWCWD, China Lake CA; Edwards Air Force Base, California; NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA; WSMR, White Sands, NM; and NAWCAD, Patuxent River, MD. This effort includes developing, operating, and maintaining the HERO/EMC database containing approximately 21,000 records of E3 report listings relating to the susceptibility of ordnance systems at all levels: system, subsystem and component.
| Ships and Ships Systems |
Additional experience includes: supporting developmental and experimental Navy and Marine Corps weapon systems and WCSs in the field of system safety engineering in order to determine the level of risk associated with those systems. This effort involves reviews of historical data, analyses of system designs and associated equipment and their interfaces to personnel, and evaluations of the environmental safety issues and sociological and political considerations, as appropriate. Analyses are conducted on hardware (e.g., electrical, mechanical and hydraulic) and software (e.g., fire control, weapon control, and command and decision systems) in various weapons and related systems.
The analyses include identification of malfunctions or failures that could result in equipment damage, personnel injury, or damage to the environment, and identification of hardware or software control features that are critical for the reduction of the risk associated with these hazards. These analyses are reported in the form of Safety Assessment Reports, System Safety Engineering Reports, System Safety Hazard Analysis Reports, or as otherwise specified. These studies require performance of specific system safety engineering analyses inherent in the risk assessment process. The analyses are incorporated into risk assessment reports and in technical data packages for the WSESRB and SSSTRP. Specific programs that have been supported are shown in Table I-2.
3.10 Configuration Management (CM) Support
| BAE Systems | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
BAE Systems has performed all software CM functions in support of the Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TWCS) program maintenance of the CM database software, and routine CM functions including identification, change control, tracking, status accounting, software release management, and media inventory control of all Configuration Items (CI) associated with the WCS programs.
3.11 Quality Assurance (QA) Support
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems |
EG&G provides QA support for CEC, NFCS, NULKA, SSDS, SGS/AC, GWS, and RAIDS that include evaluating software activities, plans, processes, procedures and work products for conformance to documented standards, policies, and guidelines, assessing process effectiveness, and implementing corrective action plans for deviations. This effort also includes participating as a consultant in the development of plans toward conformance with organization policy and standards, reviewing documented project work products, auditing selected project activities to evaluate conformance to process and procedures, identifying potential process improvements, and participating in project milestone reviews such as Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), and Test Readiness Reviews (TRR).
| Strategic Weapons Systems |
EG&G also performs acceptance testing on all SLBM Magnetic Tape Cartridges (MTCs) to ensure high quality of the media. Acceptance testing includes several major steps and follows thorough step-by-step documentation for performing cartridge dimensional, torque and tension, and digital testing.
| BAE Systems | Ships and Ships Systems |
BAE Systems has established QA procedures for software release to ensure accuracy, and has identified and implemented improvements in Software Configuration Release Management (SCRM) processes, including the development of shell scripts. BAE has independently reviewed Software QA (SQA) products including build review packages, delivery letters, Software Verification Documents (SVD), Software Requirements Specifications SRSs, Software Specification Design Documents (SSDD), SDDs, code, test plans, test procedures, test reports, and inspection minutes.
3.12 Information System (IS) Development, Information Assurance (IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
As a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman IT, MSIS participated in the design and development of a Web-based training system for the Aegis Weapon System during the years 2002 and 2003. This system was designed to allow Aegis and contractor employees to take courses on-line, independently, in order to integrate the courses more efficiently and effectively into their work schedules.
MSIS developed the requirements document, which included use-case scenarios and textual requirements descriptions.
MSIS developed the design documentation, including the design of the
- Training database, provided in MS Access tables and including table relationships, field descriptions and editing criteria, and the
- Screens to be available to students, as well as the sequence of screens to traverse in order to register, take courses, take quizzes, receive a grade and review grades for all courses taken.
The design work was done in close collaboration with the NSWCDD customer in N20P. MSIS tested the system components as they became available.
| Other - Nasa IV&V |
MSIS has supported the NASA IV&V Facility with IS, IA, and IT support from June 1999 to 2005. MSIS performed the original concept analysis, development, test, installation, implementation, training, and created user documentation for version 1.0 of the Critical Function List Compliance Matrix (CCM). The CCM is an Information System in use by large IV&V projects at NASA’s IV&V Facility in Fairmont, WV. Individual projects utilize this information to track completion status of required IV&V analysis tasks across multiple analysis activities and critical functions. The MSIS employee creating this software tool received an award from The Titan Corporation for this effort. MSIS subsequently performed requirements definition, design, implementation, installation, and created user documentation for a modification to the CCM. This modification improved support for existing users and added functionality required to bring another IV&V project on board.
MSIS proposed major modifications to the existing PITS, a Web-based application written in Active Server Pages (ASP), in support of new management requirements to improve its effectiveness with the varied needs of multiple IV&V projects utilizing the same system. MSIS completed design, implementation, testing, installation, and training on the revised system, including migration of all existing data to a new database structure. This database housed thousands of issues across multiple projects at the time of transition, and in 2004 housed over 25,000 issues for the NASA IV&V facility, and had multiple installations across the country. The MSIS employees behind this effort received excellence awards for their performance from The Titan Corporation.
MSIS participated in the modification of the Peer and Approval Review System (PARS) for The Titan Corporation. PARS is a system for managing deliverable review and approval under The Titan Corporation’s ISO-9000 quality management system. The modifications integrated document management with the existing review management functionality to create a more automated review cycle that no longer required users to complete other actions outside of the system. This team also received excellence awards from The Titan Corporation for their efforts.
MSIS has implemented several Web sites for the NASA IV&V Facility. MSIS created a gateway Web site, a portal, which is database-driven and consists of contact information and links for businesses. The gateway Web site structure was designed by MSIS to display large amounts of diverse data in an efficient and user-friendly manner. MSIS maintained both the database and the Web site. MSIS designed, developed, and maintained e-commerce sites, utilizing specially designed administrative pages.
MSIS is experienced in the design, installation and implementation of business and government, local and wide area networks. This includes servers, workstations, and secure Web-based access to critical data. We take time to listen to the customer, research, specify, and recommend new interfaces and software/hardware solutions that meet the requirements and improve efficiency. We read and monitor printed and on-line trade publications in IT, storage, security, business/government systems, and workforce training. This keeps us abreast of best practices in evolving data storage and reporting systems for our clients. Once a new system is installed, we assist the client in writing and implementing proper policies and procedures to protect network and data security.
MSIS performed on contracts for maintenance and technical support of LANs and WANs.
| EG&G | Force Level Warfare Systems |
EG&G provides engineering and technical support to the Distributed Engineering Plant (DEP), a sophisticated COTS-based system, encompassing nine remote sites across the country, utilizing UNIX, Windows platforms, Multiple Unit Line-11 Test and Operational Training System (MULTOTS), Tactical Data Links (TADILs), and other information sources to conduct Battle Force Interoperability Tests (BFITs). Personnel provide support for installation, removal, and maintenance of several Local Area Networks/Wide Area Networks (LANs/WANs), including the temporary installation and removal of equipment on shipboard platforms in connection with shipboard tests and data collection events.
| Strategic Weapons Systems |
EG&G provides maintenance and technical support for the SLBM Distributed Graphical System Network (DGSNET) and the SLBM Internet-to-Desktop System (SIDS). Support includes establishing, testing, and upgrading of networks, workstations and support equipment hardware (such as the installment of fiber optic cables, network cards, switches, and routers) and the testing of giga-bit connections.
3.13 Ship Inactivation and Disposal Support
The MSIS team does not present this functional area.
3.14 Interoperability, Test and Evaluation, Trials Support
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems, |
EG&G provides interoperability, test and evaluation, and trials support to Navy and Marine Corps weapon systems and WCSs in operational and test environments on the ESSM, STANDARD Missile, Aegis Combat System, and AAAV programs. Other experience in this area includes expertise in enhancing warfighter capability by simplifying complex operations such as emission control. This effort includes reducing safety hazards by resolving E3 issues for Navy as well as Joint and multi-national operations. EG&G has provided support for 10 direct at-sea tests under the Joint Shipboard Helicopter Integration Process (JSHIP) program by resolving potential ordnance conflicts through tailored emission control instructions. EG&G also conducts EMV and HERO tests of US Army and US Air Force aircraft and weapon systems to US Navy environments.
| Ships and Ships Systems |
EG&G performs IV&V for CEC, the MK 160 GCS, NULKA, and AIEWS. This effort includes developing formal test plans, procedures, and scenario scripts to support life-cycle test activities utilizing a test-bed consisting of software simulation and data collection devices. Personnel have performed system test and analysis of SSDS Mk2 Modifications 0, 1, and 2 at the Wallops Island Land Based Test Site (LBTS) Facility.
3.15 Measurement Facilities, Range, and Instrumentation Support
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems, Ordnance |
EG&G has over 20 years of experience in engineering and technical expertise to conduct HERO, HERP, HERF and EME field surveys at Navy/Inter-service shore facilities and ship platforms. Personnel have conducted 130 HERO ship surveys, 71 HERO shore facility surveys, 87 HERP ship surveys, 28 EME flight deck surveys, and 49 HERO / HERP certification surveys.
3.16 Acquisition Logistics Support
| EG&G | Ordnance, Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance |
EG&G provides acquisition logistics support on the SOF Munitions program to the Navy and Marine Corps weapon systems and weapon control systems as it relates to system safety engineering in order to determine the level of risk associated with those systems, for both developmental and deployed environments, in operational and test environments.
| BAE Systems | Littoral Warfare Systems, Ships and Ships Systems |
BAE Systems provides Systems Engineering and Acquisition Management support to Marine Corp Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) for Ground Weapons Systems. BAE Systems provides comprehensive engineering, analysis, acquisition, management services, and life-cycle support for multiple programs, including Infantry Weapons Systems, M1A1 tanks and amphibious assault vehicles (AAV), fire support and anti-armor systems, ammunition management, Anti-Terrorism and Force Protection systems, Raids and Amphibious Reconnaissance Systems, and non-lethal weapons and technologies.
BAE Systems provides system acquisition support to over 50 USMC Programs/Projects, of which 17 are ACAT programs. BAE Systems performs across-the-board program management support in the acquisition management of USMC ground weapons systems and equipment through the total integration of system engineering methodologies. BAE uses powerful commercial engineering and acquisition management tools to identify program development/fielding/support efforts, deliverables, critical paths, and event dependencies to their customers and managers. To ensure successful program Milestone decisions, BAE develops DoD series mandated documentation, such as requirements inputs, TEMP, IPSP, Life Cycle Cost, TOC, interoperability assessments, test plans and reports, risk assessments, Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), trade studies, make/buy analyses, safety analyses and board reports, environmental impact analyses, acquisition strategies and other supporting documentation.
| ManTech Engineering Integration Center | Other - OSD, USTRANSCOM, USEUCOM |
ManTech e-IC provided technical leadership, direction, and software engineering services in the development of a Web-based pilot system for handling the customs clearance of U.S. military cargo to Germany and other countries. Participating Organizations included the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), and the United States European Command (USEUCOM).
In 2002, ManTech e-IC staff coordinated and led a working group involving commercial carriers, DoD personnel, and German customs officials. Staff designed and developed a prototype system for automating the customs clearance process in Germany. ManTech e-IC began testing the system with DoD, commercial carriers, and German customs users in Germany.
Today, ManTech e-IC is providing technical leadership and software engineering services for the DoD/German Customs Working Group in the continuing development of the DoD Customs Portal Pilot System. ManTech e-IC is developing systems and functions as determined necessary through the DoD/German Customs Working Group to support new and changing requirements from military services, commercial carriers, and German Customs.
3.17 Supply and Provisioning Support
| EG&G | Strategic Weapons Systems |
EG&G is responsible for the receipt, acceptance, storage, and delivery of all SLBM Magnetic Tape Cartridges (MTCs). This effort also includes providing Quarterly Production and Inventory Status Reports as well as maintaining associated Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) and Government Furnished Materials (GFM) databases.
3.18 Training Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
As a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman IT, MSIS developed and delivered training classes targeting Aegis project managers and other employees at NSWCDD. Aegis points of contact were consulted closely to ensure the relevance of all training material. The initial courses were Planning and Estimating and Tracking and Oversight, and were designed to reflect Aegis-specific project management procedures and practices. Presentations, applied exercises and classroom discussion were important components of the classes. Each major topic was introduced, presented, and followed by an applied exercise using relevant automated technology. Following each exercise, classroom discussion enabled students to review the important concepts and lessons learned. Feedback to MSIS was positive: upon completion of the courses students were able to apply the material immediately in their work. This included applying relevant Aegis standards and procedures to planning, estimating, tracking and oversight of projects.
These courses were updated and delivered multiple times during the years 1999 through 2002 in support of Aegis organizations’ progress from CMM Level 1 to 2. The course material was further modified to support the planned upgrade to Level 3 during the year 2003.
During the same time period, other courses were developed and delivered to the Aegis community. The Aegis Policies, Standards and Procedures Overview course, delivered in 1999, offered all employees an introductory, comprehensive description of the many standards and procedures comprising the infrastructure of Aegis documented processes. This enabled new employees to become more knowledgeable and productive in using Aegis practices as they performed their work. In 2000 the Aegis Software Engineering Process Document Overview course was delivered, presenting the different life cycle models used depending on the complexity of a software engineering project. All employees involved in the software development life cycles benefited by understanding the specific life cycle applicable to their project, and the differences among life cycles available for projects.
In 2001 the Tailoring Process course provided students with a practical, step-by-step methodology for modifying standard processes to reflect the practices of a single organization with respect to a specific project. Students completed the course by tailoring current standard documents, a skill that they could use immediately in their projects. In 2001 and 2002 a four-part Requirements Engineering Process course was developed and delivered to encompass training in the management of project requirements as well as in the specific relevant Aegis standard practices. This enabled students to manage requirements in accordance with Level 2 of the CMM as well as to follow Aegis standards and procedures.
In 2003 a number of courses were redeveloped to be used in a Web-based training environment, so that students could take the courses, workshops and quizzes independently, at a time of their choosing, in order to undergo training more efficiently and effectively within their work schedules.
| EKN Interactive | Other - US Dept of Defense |
EKN Interactive is involved in the science, art, and business of using advanced technology to deliver information and educational content. EKN uses the following technologies:
- Digibeta and Beta SP video equipment
- Final cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro software
- Web-linked CD and DVD formats
- WebCT and custom-designed learning management systems
- Streaming video using MPEG4 compression
- Laser scanning to create 3D models
EKN has developed interactive, Web-linked DVDs for the Appalachian Regional Commission, the US Department of Defense, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
EKN developed an interactive, Web-linked DVD for the National Environmental Education and Training Center. This project was funded by the US Department of Defense (DoD). This DVD documents a research project that includes laser-scanning and 3D modeling as possible tools to be used in ship recycling of formerly used military ships. EKN Interactive worked closely with the Virtual Environments Lab at West Virginia University to acquire the assets needed to create various branches for this DVD. The video editor intercut scanned images with video footage of the dismantling of a floating dry dock in Portland, OR. Other branches include interviews at two international ship recycling conferences and video footage of a US Navy ship being dismantled.
| ManTech Engineering Integration Center | Other - TSI/NSWC Indianhead |
ManTech e-IC is involved in the development of Computer Based Training (CBT) for the United States Naval Reserve. The training is designed for Navy reservists who are unable to attend the normal training pipeline and is also utilized for aircraft systems refresher training to all Temporary Active Reserve (TAR) personnel who need to be brought back up to speed on aircraft systems. The current training centers on the Navy’s C-130T Hercules aircraft and the following rates: Aircraft Electricians (AE), Aircraft Machinists (AD), Aircraft Structural Mechanics (AM), Aircraft Structural Mechanics Survival Systems (AME), and the Aviation Electronics Technicians (AT). This training evolution covers the development of over 200 training lessons spread over the five Navy rates. ManTech e-IC is currently assessing technologies in order to convert previously created CBT into Web-Based Training (WBT). Recently, ManTech e-IC has started the development of CBT and WBT for the Navy’s F-5 aircraft to cover aircraft systems and procedures to supplement the NATOPS flight manual.
3.19 In-Service Engineering, Fleet Introduction, Installation and Checkout Support
| Mountain State Information Systems, Inc. | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
MSIS personnel have worked with multiple versions of ATES spanning Aegis’ entire lifecycle, including domestic, Spanish, Japanese and Norwegian baselines. Personnel have visited and provided support at several different Aegis-related sites, including the Aegis Computer Center (ACC), the Aegis Training and Readiness Center (ATRC), the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC), and multiple Aegis-Class Destroyers. MSIS personnel provide at-sea fleet support to Aegis ships during Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQTs), as well as in the event of an issue that requires onboard technical representation.
MSIS personnel provide technical assistance to other systems engineers; this assistance includes special studies of system interface problems and frequently involves analysis of both the hardware and software aspects of a computer system. Personnel work directly with the system hardware technicians to resolve problems during system integration. Most of this activity occurs with engineers pursuing software-related problems or analyzing the computer system data collected during sea trials. This support is sometimes required at sites other than NSWCDD, which often includes shipboard observation and testing.
| EG&G | Strategic Weapons Systems |
EG&G is providing engineering and technical support for various types of computer storage, transportable media, and auxiliary Automated Data Processing (ADP) equipment and components for SLBM missions. These efforts include media certification, media repairs and storage; media engineering (analysis, requirements analysis, and specification development); providing trend, engineering, and failure analysis support for the resolution of subsystem conflicts between media, drive hardware and firmware, and subsystem software; and failure analysis of fleet media returned with Trouble Failure Reports (TFRs).
| Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance |
EG&G has additional experience in the following:
- · Preparing installation documentation for integrating the Army’s Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) in the Supporting Arms Coordination Center (SACC) aboard LHD/LHA class of ships to include drawings, SHIPALTs, ECPs, and Action Item Requests (AIRs),
- · Developing Systems Engineering Master Plans, Human Factors documentation, Justification Cost Form (JCF), Installation Control Drawings (ICD), Ship Alteration Record (SAR), and Ship Installation Drawings (SID) to support the design execution and installation across all of the LHD and LHA class of ships,
- · Developing Integrated Logistics Support packages and other documentation to support ship’s installation,
- · Developing the SACC-A training packages and ship’s installation schedules,
- · Performing System Operational Verification Testing (SOVT),
- · Performing shipboard installation, system integration and testing of the AFATDS aboard the USS BON HOMME RICHARD (LHD-6), the USS IWO JIMA (LHD-7), the USS BOXER (LHD-4), the USS BATAAN (LHD-5), and the USS PELELIU (LHA-5),
- · Developing redline drawings, and Interim Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) packages, and
- Participating in the SOVT/SOT Testing.
3.20 Program Support
| EG&G | Surface Ship Combat Systems |
EG&G provides programmatic support for the CEC and SSDS systems including traceability using the Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) database. Personnel also supported introduction of Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems (AFATDS) aboard ships by developing programmatic documentation.
| Strategic Weapons Systems |
EG&G has provided management and execution support to the SLBM Fire Control (FC) Modernization and the Strategic Systems Program (SSP) Alteration (SPALT) program. This effort included preparing agendas, meeting minutes, action items, and program schedules.
| BAE Systems | Force Level Warfare Systems |
BAE Systems has provided program support to NSWCDD including development of inputs for presentations for NAVSEA briefings, training of personnel in IDSIM & lab operations, and support for Integrated Process Teams (IPTs), Interface Coordinated Working Groups (ICWGs), In-Process Reviews (IPRs), and Peer Reviews.
3.21 Administrative Support
| EG&G | Ships and Ships Systems |
EG&G provides administrative support to Navy and Marine Corps weapon systems and WCSs. Specific programs that have been supported are shown in Table I-2.
| BAE Systems | Ships and Ships Systems |
BAE Systems has provided administrative support to the Navy Open Architecture (OA) program under the Warfare Systems Omnibus contract for NSWCDD.
3.22 Public Affairs and Multimedia Support
The MSIS team does not present this functional area.
| U.S. Navy Project | Functional Area(s) Supported |
|---|---|
| 2.75" Rocket Launcher | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.14, 3.21 |
| Advanced Close Air Support System (ACASS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Advanced Combat Direction System (ACDS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.21 |
| Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems (AFATDS) | 3.19, 3.20 |
| Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.14 |
| Advanced TOMAHAWK Weapon Control System (ATWCS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Aegis Combat System (ACS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.14, 3.21 |
| Aegis Reusable Components | 3.6 |
| Aegis Tactical Executive System (ATES) | 3.2, 3.19 |
| Aegis Tactical Operating Environment | 3.6 |
| Aegis Weapon System (AWS) | 3.2, 3.6, 3.12, 3.18, 3.19 |
| Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV) | 3.16 |
| AN/SPY-1 Coherent Data Collection System (CDCS) | 3.2 |
| Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System (APOBS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Anti-Submarine Warfare Control System (ASWCS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.21 |
| Attack Weapon Control System (AWCS) | 3.2 |
| Battle Force Tactical Training (BFTT) | 3.5 |
| Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) | 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.9, 3.11, 3.14, 3.20, 3.21 |
| Dragon Drone System | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Enhanced Radar Data Display System (ERDDS) | 3.4, 3.6 |
| Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.14, 3.21 |
| Extended Air Defense Simulation (EADSIM) | 3.3 |
| Extended Air Defense Test Bed (EADTB) | 3.3 |
| Extended Range Guided Munition (ERGM) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.21 |
| Fleet AAW Model for Comparison of Tactical Systems (FACTS) | 3.3 |
| Guided Missile Submarine (SSGN) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.21 |
| Gun Weapon System (GWS) MK 160 | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.11, 3.14, 3.21 |
| Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Fuel (HERF) | 3.9, 3.15 |
| Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO) | 3.9, 3.14, 3.15 |
| Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel (HERP) | 3.9, 3.15 |
| High Performance Distributed Computing System (HiPer-D) | 3.6 |
| High Range Resolution (HRR) Program | 3.4 |
| Integrated Combat Direction System (ICDS) | 3.2 |
| Intersystem Electromagnetic Compatibility / Electromagnetic Vulnerability (EMC/EMV) | 3.9 |
| Joint Shipboard Helicopter Integration Process (JSHIP) program | 3.14 |
| Kinematic Interceptor Model (KIM) | 3.3 |
| Large Scale Vehicle (LSV) | 3.1 |
| LPD-17 Integrated Systems | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Mesoscale Environmental Simulations & Operations (MESO) | 3.3 |
| Mission Readiness Assessment System (MRAS) | 3.4 |
| Multiple Unit Line-11 Test and Operational Training System (MULTOTS) | 3.12 |
| Multi-warfare Assessment & Research System (MARS) | 3.3 |
| Naval Ordnance Transient Electromagnetic Simulator (NOTES) | 3.9 |
| NATO SeaSparrow Missile System (NSSMS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.21 |
| NULKA Decoy System | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.11, 3.14, 3.21 |
| Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.21 |
| Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.11, 3.14, 3.20, 3.21 |
| Ship Wide Area Networks (SWANs) | 3.2 |
| Shipboard Gridlock System with Auto Correlation (SGS/AC) | 3.11 |
| Shipboard Integration Logistics System (SILS) | 3.4 |
| Special Operations Forces (SOF) Munitions | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.16, 3.21 |
| STANDARD Missile | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.14, 3.21 |
| Strategic Systems Program Alteration (SPALT) Program | 3.20 |
| Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) System | 3.1, 3.2, 3.6, 3.7, 3.11, 3.12, 3.17, 3.19, 3.20 |
| Super Barricade System | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Tactical Acquisition System (TAS) MK 23 | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Tactical Situation Display (TSD) | 3.3 |
| Tactical Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD) System | 3.3 |
| TBMD End-to-End Demonstration System (ETEDS) Program | 3.3 |
| TOMAHAWK Weapon Systems (TWS) | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 3.10 |
| United Kingdom ATWCS | 3.2, 3.5, 3.9 |
| Vapor, Liquid, Solid Tracking (VLSTRACK) chem./bio weapon simulation model | 3.3 |
