Booz Allen's Digital Twin Solutions empower organizations to enhance agility and resilience by transforming their design, planning, and operational strategies. By creating virtual replicas of real-world products or systems, these solutions optimize infrastructure, assets, and processes throughout their lifecycle. The process starts with a digital thread—a data pipeline that rapidly collects and unifies vast amounts of data, delivering insights over ten times faster than traditional methods. This technology facilitates a wide range of applications within an immersive 3D environment, allowing users to visualize master planning over time and refine design options before physical implementation. Ultimately, Booz Allen's Digital Twins help reduce maintenance costs, extend asset lifespan, and ensure mission readiness by identifying and addressing vulnerabilities effectively.
The Extended Reality Analytics Engine (XRAE)™ is a cutting-edge analytics tool designed for military applications, providing actionable insights through advanced features such as biometrics and eye tracking across virtual, augmented, and mixed reality environments. Its resilient architecture supports containerized and scalable real-time analytics via Socket.IO connections and robust data pipelines. XRAE simplifies integration with commercial off-the-shelf game engine plug-ins like Unity and Unreal, while offering real-time analytics and dashboards that connect trainees and trainers to quantitative training results. With easily extendable open APIs using Python for data processing and multiple sensor integration capabilities, XRAE enhances the measurement, analysis, and aggregation of data, enabling live recordings of training sessions in a cloud-agnostic and interoperable framework.
The Modular Adaptive Synthetic Controller (MASC) is an innovative electronics package developed by Booz Allen in 2022, designed to enhance training for logistics crews on their organic weapon systems within simulated environments. This highly portable system can be utilized in various settings, including austere locations, making it versatile for military applications. The MASC integrates advanced technologies such as a microprocessor and an inertial measurement unit (gyroscope) that functions as a motion sensor, tracking weapon movements similarly to a computer mouse. It connects to the weapon's trigger, safety, and other movable parts through sensors that capture digital inputs, which are transmitted to the MASC microprocessor either wirelessly via Bluetooth or through a wired harness, tailored to meet specific client needs. This sophisticated system leverages Booz Allen's expertise in systems engineering, 3D modeling, virtual platforms, and rapid prototyping to deliver effective training solutions.
The integration of mission analytics and human performance represents a groundbreaking advancement in military training, designed to enhance warfighter readiness. By equipping soldiers with sensors, defense organizations can gain valuable insights into both their adherence to operational protocols—such as room clearing—and their physiological metrics, including heart rate and respiration. This dual approach allows for a comprehensive assessment of a soldier's performance, identifying not only skill gaps but also underlying issues such as anxiety or fatigue that may affect readiness. For instance, data from a room-clearing exercise could reveal that a soldier's incomplete scanning of the environment stems from both insufficient training and heightened stress levels, highlighting the need for targeted interventions. As these disciplines converge, the potential to optimize training and improve overall operational effectiveness becomes increasingly attainable.
HII's C5ISR capabilities provide actionable intelligence at hyper speed, essential for integrated ISR operations and accelerated decision-making. By designing, developing, integrating, and managing advanced sensors and systems, HII supports the Department of Defense and the intelligence community in enhancing mission effectiveness globally. The solutions incorporate data fusion and mission management to address the challenges posed by rapid advancements in long-range weaponry. Additionally, HII leverages Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) to extend operational reach and flexibility for naval forces in undersea and littoral environments. With a focus on low size, weight, and power (SWaP) architectures, HII’s systems are designed for independent operation or collaborative multi-mode functionality, ensuring mission success across diverse operational scenarios.
HII is a leader in applied artificial intelligence (AI) for defense, dedicated to defining and building the next generation of smart defense and intelligence systems. By integrating cloud computing and edge devices with customized software, HII envisions a future where seamless human-AI collaboration is standard in military operations. Ranked 4th in Federal AI by GovWin/Deltek, HII excels in deploying AI across C5ISR operations and develops cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to enhance mission-critical systems. Their advanced ML applications address various defense needs, including automated analysis of imagery, radio-frequency spectrum, acoustic data, cyber information, and natural language processing for intelligence production, while also leveraging expertise in autonomous maritime platforms for fleet sustainment throughout the lifecycle.
District Defend is a cutting-edge cybersecurity solution designed to secure data and network access for mobile users, ensuring safety wherever they go. Utilizing a Zero Trust approach at the edge, it verifies that devices are in a secure and trusted state before granting access to sensitive resources. The system features dynamic hardening and endpoint protection, which proactively safeguards data, devices, and networks with automated and intelligent measures tailored to enterprise security policies. Additionally, it offers a Commercial Solution for Classified (CSfC) compliance, providing a seamless endpoint solution that integrates all CSfC requirements, thereby ensuring robust protection for mission-critical operations. District Defend also enables remote and hybrid classified workforces with context-responsive controls, adapting security measures based on user location and activity.
Global4Sight is a cutting-edge data-driven intelligence platform designed to provide organizations with critical insights into their operational environment. Utilizing advanced human terrain and social listening tools, Global4Sight analyzes local media, audience perceptions, and prevailing narratives to help clients understand their market dynamics and potential threats. The platform excels in network analysis, revealing connections between individuals, entities, and industries within complex supply chains and ideological frameworks. Additionally, Global4Sight offers comprehensive assessments of political-military stability and its effects on organizational strategies, ensuring clients remain informed about geopolitical developments and security issues that could impact their operations. With its robust analytics capabilities, Global4Sight quantifies social and cultural conditions to deliver actionable trends, forecasts, and interactive dashboards that enhance decision-making processes.
Modelpoint is an advanced analytics platform designed to accelerate mission impact by leveraging scalable data science and innovative technologies. Operating through a secure and interoperable multicloud architecture, Modelpoint integrates seamlessly with industry partners and government tools via an open application programming interface (API), all while adhering to stringent zero trust cybersecurity protocols. Its massively scalable design supports distributed storage and processing, utilizing powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) caching for enhanced computational efficiency. The platform orchestrates the collection and automated exploitation of diverse data through dynamic model stacks, incorporating advanced algorithms such as computer vision, spatial statistics, and machine learning techniques. Additionally, Modelpoint enables the integration of both unclassified and classified data sources, ensuring comprehensive support for critical missions across various domains.
C4KISR is a cutting-edge system developed by CETC, a state-owned enterprise specializing in C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) solutions. Designed to enhance national security and operational efficiency, C4KISR provides comprehensive power information support across all military branches. It enables seamless configuration across strategic, tactical, and operational levels, ensuring a unified and transparent battlefield environment. By integrating command and control with advanced information sensing and processing capabilities, C4KISR significantly improves command efficiency, accelerates feedback loops, and enhances situational awareness. This system supports various operational domains—land, sea, and air—by connecting tightly with weapon platforms and fostering effective decision-making in complex environments.
C4KISR is an advanced system developed by CETC, a state-owned enterprise specializing in C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) solutions. This innovative platform offers comprehensive power information support for various military branches, enhancing national security and operational effectiveness in local conflicts and counter-terrorism efforts. The system's modular design allows for seamless configuration across strategic, tactical, and operational levels, ensuring a unified and transparent battlefield environment. By integrating command and control with information sensing, processing, countermeasures, and guarantees, C4KISR significantly improves command efficiency, reduces feedback time, and strengthens decision-making capabilities across land, sea, and air operations.
HII Integrated Digital Shipbuilding (iDS) revolutionizes the shipbuilding process by employing advanced technologies such as laser scanning, augmented reality, modeling and simulation, and additive manufacturing. This innovative approach transitions from traditional two-dimensional paper-based instructions to fully digital formats, significantly enhancing efficiency, safety, and affordability in ship construction. Currently, iDS is being utilized in the construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80), marking it as the first ship to be built entirely paperless, along with its application in Columbia-class submarine construction.
HII Integrated Digital Shipbuilding (iDS) revolutionizes the shipbuilding process by employing cutting-edge technologies such as laser scanning, augmented reality, modeling and simulation, and additive manufacturing. This innovative approach transitions traditional two-dimensional paper-based instructions to advanced digital formats, significantly enhancing efficiency, safety, and affordability in ship construction. Currently, iDS is being utilized in the construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80), marking it as the first ship to be built entirely paperless, alongside its application in the Columbia-class submarine construction.
HII Integrated Digital Shipbuilding (iDS) revolutionizes the shipbuilding process by employing advanced technologies such as laser scanning, augmented reality, modeling and simulation, and additive manufacturing. This innovative approach enables a transition from traditional two-dimensional paper-based instructions to fully digital formats, significantly enhancing efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness. Currently, iDS is being utilized in the construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80), marking it as the first ship to be built entirely paperless, as well as in the submarine construction of the Columbia-class.
HII Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers represent the pinnacle of naval engineering, designed to meet the evolving demands of modern warfare. As the sole designer and builder of these advanced vessels in the United States, HII is currently focused on the Gerald R. Ford-class carriers, which incorporate cutting-edge technologies for enhanced flexibility and survivability. These nuclear-powered giants are not only capable of launching and retrieving aircraft with precision but also function as self-sustaining cities at sea, equipped with power plants, medical facilities, and waste management systems. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, Newport News Shipbuilding is dedicated to constructing the next generation of aircraft carriers that will serve the U.S. Navy for decades to come.
