Systems Analysis Laboratory Services

The SAL environment is unique, and brings together the best software, hardware and domain experts available in the region. Our team uses advanced, validated processes and analytical techniques to provide timely, detailed, technical and analytical services.

Our structured process and complex problem examination skills enable us to work with the customer to rapidly apply our services to their future requirements. By closely involving the customer from the outset we ensure a transparent relationship is maintained to enable believable and trusted outcomes.

The SAL provides analytical and technical services to support the following areas:

Acquisition Decision Support

With the cost of future platforms rising and the way they interact in a system of systems becoming increasingly complex, it is vital for Governments and Corporations to carefully analyse their future requirements and procurement decisions. The SAL provides the ultimate analytical and technical service to rapidly examine these "what-if" questions and provide detailed insight into the effects of future options.

Our team of ex-military Operations Analysts work with the customer to derive complex realistic scenarios based on the best open source and/or classified data available. New platforms and systems are then modelled in the context of these scenarios using our advanced constructive simulation facilities resident in the BASE architecture. This includes elements from the military mission level to strategic level surveillance and communications tools also applicable in the commercial domain.

BASE merges multiple modelling and simulation tools via distributed simulation techniques to provide a single complex analytical environment. The environment includes Computer Generated Forces, Wide Area Surveillance, Communications, Life Cycle Cost, Logistic Support models and others. This is to allow analysis of the flow on affects of procurement options across the simulated system of systems. Finally the output is carefully analysed using robust statistical techniques embedded in BASE. Reports are then generated to suit the customer's requirements. The report reduces the complexity of the problem facing the customer and provides enhanced decision support to aid them in their Acquisition process.

Operational Concept Experimentation

In the battlespace of tomorrow, information dominance will be the key to survival. The ability of a formation to share information and react quickly with precise and deadly force will determine their ability to win. Complex and restrictive Rules of Engagement, Asymmetric warfare and increasing involvement in operations other than war (e.g. peacekeeping) will further complicate this problem.

The SAL provides the ideal environment to examine new warfighting concepts, technologies and methods for the combined and joint forces of tomorrow. Using comparative analysis Defence force customers, working closely with our team of ex-military Operations Analysts, can examine the effects of new concepts such as Network Enabled Warfare and Co-operative Engagement Capability. Using the BASE environment and realistic scenarios, the effectiveness of new concepts can be quickly assessed from the mission level where the customer can even pilot individual platforms within the simulation, to the strategic C4ISREW level. Additionally, when combined with procurement options above, the environment allows insight into capability and warfighting concept combinations.

The final result for Boeing Australia's customers is detailed insights into new Operational Concepts based on solid quantitative results.

Technical Expertise

The SAL has internationally recognised software engineers on staff that have extensive cross platform software development experience in the disciplines of distributed simulation architecture, visualisation, statistical analysis and military systems simulation. In addition the SAL team has excellent knowledge of COTS software capabilities across simulations and simulation support tools.