Capabilities

Summit Engineering Group (SEG) specializes in high-end analytical studies associated with commercial and military systems. These studies utilize SEG expertise across five core capability areas: Cost Analysis, Systems Engineering , Economic Analysis, Source Selection Support, and Operations Research.

SEG has broad professional experience in analyzing and estimating the costs and performance of advanced technology systems throughout their life cycle (research & development, procurement, operations & support, and disposal). The analytic activities have been applied to both platforms and subsystems. At the platform level, SEG has experience and exposure to spacecraft as well as manned and unmanned variants of aircraft, ground vehicles, surface ships, and submarine vehicles. Additionally, SEG has direct experience in analyzing the subsystems associated with the various platforms. The subsystems range from weapons (missiles, bullets, directed energy systems) to countermeasures (EW, ECM) to sensors (Radar, Sonar, EO/IR, ISR) to command and control systems.

SEG projects and the capabilities utilized on each are presented below.

	Capabilities
Project	Cost	SE	Econ	SS	OR
Primary Domain: Space
Discoverer II	■	■
Mars Flyer Probability of Success	■	■
Orbital Express (OE)	■	■	■	■	■
SPAAT Modeling Support	■	■			■
Sleight of Hand (SOH)	■	■
SBR GMTI AOA	■	■
Space Surveillance Telescope (SST)	■
Primary Domain: Airborne
Assault DIRCM		■
Blackswift	■			■
Combat Search and Rescue Helicopter Replacement (CSAR-X)	■	■
Counter-MANPADS(CM)	■	■	■	■
CYCLONE Price-to-Win	■	■
Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO)	■	■
F-22 Acquisition Tiger Team	■
F/A-18 Cost Reduction Initiatives	■
Free Space Optical Experimental Network Experiment (FOENEX)	■	■		■
Global Hawk BAMS Analysis	■	■
Global Hawk CCA Support	■
High Altitude Endurance UAV AoA	■	■
High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS)	■	■		■
Integrated Performance Cost Model (IPCM)	■	■			■
Integrated Sensor is Structure (ISIS)	■			■
Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System (JATAS) Price-to-Win	■	■
Missile & Munitions Database	■		■
National Missile Defense (NMD)	■
Sky Pony	■	■
Strike DIRCM		■		■
Synthetic Aperture Ladar for Tactical Imaging (SALTI)	■			■
Tactical Control System (TCS)	■
Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR)	■	■	■	■
V-22 Cost Reduction Initiatives	■
Primary Domain: Ground
Emerging Counter-MANPADS Technologies (ECMT)	■			■
Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE)	■	■		■
Individual Force Protection System (IFPS)	■			■
IT Cost Support	■
Integrated Checkpoint (ICP)	■	■	■
MagViz (formerly SENSIT)	■	■
Manhattan II	■	■		■
Mobile to Ad-Hoc Interoperable Network GATEway (MAINGATE)	■	■	■	■
National Cyber Range (NCR)	■			■
Panoptic Analysis of Chemical Traces (PACT)	■			■
Security Source Selection Support	■			■
Transformer (Tx)	■			■
Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (UGCV)	■			■
Wireless Adaptable Network Node (WANN) Unit Price Analysis	■	■
Wireless Network After Next (WNAN) Program Assessment	■	■
Primary Domain: Maritime
Cost Estimation Framework for Naval Capability Assessment	■	■			■
Hybrid Multi-Material Rotor (HMMR)	■	■
Tactical Relay Information Network (TRITON)	■	■		■
UUV New Starts	■	■			■
Primary Domain: Internal
Airport Checkpoint Optimization	■				■
UUV Force Structure Analysis Tool (UFSAT)	■				■

The types of activities frequently performed within each of the five 'core capabilities' are presented below. Specific tasks performed on a project are described in the Projects section of the site.

SEG Capabilities
Cost Analysis	Systems Engineering	Economic Analysis
Activity Based Costing (ABC)	Acquisition Reform & Streamlining Initiatives	Business Case Analysis (BCA)
Bill of Material (BOM) Assessments	Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs)	Economic Analyses (EAs)
Budget Analysis & Formulation	C4ISR Systems	Market Research
CER Development & Validation	Design and Production Engineering	Source Selection
Cost & Benefit Analyses (CBAs)	Homeland Security	Contract Modifications
Cost & Performance Tradeoff Analyses	Low Observable (LO) Technology	Contract Termination
Cost Analysis & Estimating	Manufacturing Technology Impacts	Documentation
Cost Analysis Requirements Description (CARD)	Milestone Support	Down Selection
Cost As Independent Variable (CAIV)	Program & Project Management	Engineering Change Proposals (ECP)
Cost Research (Data basing & Modeling)	Program Documentation	New Program Definition
Cost-Effectiveness Modeling/Analysis	Reliability & Maintainability Analyses	Proposal Preparation & Evaluation
Design-to-Cost (DTC)	Requirements Analyses	Source Selection Support
Earned Value Management (EVM)	Risk Analyses & Assessments	Operations Research
Hardware Cost Analysis & Estimating	Security Assessments & Analyses	Industrial Engineering (IE) Studies
Independent Cost Estimates	Systems Acquisition Support	Mathematical Modeling
Labor (Direct & Indirect) Analyses	Systems Engineering	Operations Analyses & Research
Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Analyses	Test Planning and Execution	Parametric Data Analysis and Reporting
Military System Cost Modeling/Analysis	Trade Studies	Resource Analysis & Management
Price Analysis	Unmanned Systems	System Performance Analyses
Price-to-Win (PTW)	Workflow Design and Management
Software Cost Analysis & Estimating

The SEG business strategy is to pursue relevant National Security projects in which its professional services and products directly satisfy the needs of its clients. As such, it seeks to attract and retain talented and experienced domain experts from the military and DoD civilian population and related academia and industry organizations. In addition, SEG develops and maintains in-house relevant databases, models, and tools to assist in meeting client needs. In this capacity, it is highly experienced in quickly identifying, collecting, fact-finding, and normalizing system/sub-system/component cost, technical, and programmatic data as well as incorporating associated risks.