System Costing

Key Benefits:

• Extensive experience with advanced technology systems and their associated support infrastructure ensures comprehensive cost estimates that are accurate and minimize surprises

• "Hidden costs" are brought into the open for evaluation

• Helps avoid assuming away key components that will drive costs

Capabilities:

• Structure/Electronics costing

• Mission Payload costing

• CONOPs development

• Ground segment costing

• Tasking, processing, exploitation, dissemination (TPED) design and costing

Clients:

• DARPA: Global Hawk and DarkStar evaluation, Blackswift, ORCA, SALTI, Maingate. 
• DHS: Counter-MANPADS, CHLOE, ECMT, MAGVIZ
• USAF: Global Hawk Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), Predator program impacts to the Tactical Control System (TCS), evaluation of the Common Ground Station (CGS) for U-2/Global Hawk/DarkStar
• USN / USMC: Vertical Tactical UAV impacts to the Tactical Control System (TCS)
• US Army: Tactical UAV impacts to the Tactical Control System (TCS)
• DARPA / US Army: Evaluating the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR) system