January 2009
In recognizing ARA’s broad-based capabilities, excellent program management processes, and proven past performance, ARA was awarded the PEO STRI http://www.peostri.army.mil STOC II (PEO STRI Omnibus Contract II) contract on 27 January 2009. STOC II is a set of multiple-award Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to provide simulation, training and instrumentation products and services for the Warfighter, beginning with concept development and continuing throughout life cycle support. STOC II programs will: 1) facilitate the leveraging of programs and technology (to include Joint and/or Joint-related) in the best interests of the U.S. Army and Department of Defense; 2) prepare the Warfighter to meet the challenges of the future Joint operational environment; and 3) support continued growth in the interoperability of Live, Virtual, Constructive and Testing solutions to enhance training and testing capabilities of the Warfighter.

October 2008
Santa Barbara, California. ARA was awarded a contract from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to provide custom software built upon the DGBETS (Debris Gamma and Beta Environments for Tactical Systems) and C/LAMP (Comprehensive Low Altitude Multi-Burst Phenomenology) codes. The Nuclear Environments and System Assessments Group will perform the work. ARA is pleased to provide exceptional technical expertise to one of the nations most respected technical institutions.

October 2008
Santa Barbara, California. ARA was awarded a contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to collect, organize, and deliver High Altitude Nuclear Environment (HANE) legacy information and data. The southeast divisions Nuclear Environments and System Assessments Group will perform the work. ARA supports DTRA and other organizations in a variety of work related to nuclear weapon environments and system response.

October 2008
Santa Barbara, California. ARA was awarded a contract from The Boeing Company to support their efforts in ground-based missile defense (GMD). Boeing will leverage many years of ARA specialized expertise in the areas of performance and survivability. The Nuclear Environments and System Assessments Group will perform the work.

August 2008
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA was notified that we won the DARPA ULTRA-Vis procurement. ULTRA-Vis is major new C4ISR program at DARPA, aimed at developing light-weight wearable components to augment small unit C2 and situational awareness during distributed urban operations. ARA’s contract is worth more than $30M over nearly four years. The first phase is a 15-month effort demonstrating key technologies. ARA as the prime will serve as the overall systems integrator with high-performing subcontractors supporting in numerous areas. The effort will be led out of the Information Exploitation Systems group in Raleigh, NC. Several other ARA divisions will be involved including MWD, Vertek, and KAD.

ARA Senior Vice President Dr. David Oakley said “This is tremendous win for ARA and a very exciting technology development effort that has the potential to change the paradigm for small unit C2 during distributed urban ops.” Our system concept, called iLeader, is shown below.

August 2008
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA was awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to continue development on DTRA’s Nuclear Capabilities Services (NuCS) program. The NuCS program supports DTRA's Nuclear Technology Weapon Effects Modeling and Simulation (NTEM) division and unifies DTRA’s many nuclear effects capabilities and codes into a common calculational architecture. NuCS will allow new and more robust analyses of nuclear weapon environments and effects. Southeast Division Manager Dr. Allen York said “We credit this win to our highly responsive management and staff who use CMMI best practices to manage and execute the program.” ARA develops other large-scale, engineering-centric software applications for DTRA such as the Integrated Munitions Effects Assessment (IMEA), the System Assessment Module (SAM), and the Vulnerability Analysis and Protection Option (VAPO) software.

July 2008
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA was awarded a contract from the Army’s Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to develop and test a prototype system to revolutionize after action review (AAR) for live-fire training exercises. Supported by Congressmen Price and Miller, the air-based system will track live fire from soldier-fired weapons during convoy and other live training events. The system will reconstruct and graphically depict firing sequences in the AAR. The system, if fielded, will provide a leap in the Army’s ability to properly train complex multiple target and target handoff firing sequences. In addition, future efforts may address the system potential for in-theater, operational use.

July 2008
Raleigh, North Carolina.ARA was awarded a contract by the Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) to continue development of algorithms that automatically predict interior layouts of various types of buildings. ARA will leverage its considerable expertise in rapid modeling of structures attributed with physically correct engineering properties such as column and beam sizes and reinforcement. ARA has previously demonstrated, through an internal research and development (IR&D) effort, the remarkable speed up achievable in predicting a building’s internal layout using a statistical distribution of possible layouts.

December 2007
Raleigh, North Carolina.ARA and a team of subcontractors have been awarded the System Assessment Module (SAM) program from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). ARA will prime this multi-year, multi-million dollar effort. The SAM program will tap ARA’s expertise in high-altitude nuclear environments, system assessments, scientific software development, and enterprise architectures to create numerous applications for use by DTRA, STRATCOM, and other government and contractor organizations.

 

September 2007
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA has been awarded a contract to perform near-earth RF propagation experiments to support analytical modeling. This work, managed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), will enable more accurate understanding and modeling of near-earth RF propagation of remote-controlled threat initiators and electronic countermeasures. ARA's expertise in both geotechnical data collection/modeling and advanced physics-based modeling software was critical to the contract win.

January 2007
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA has been awarded a prime contract from DTRA to further development of the Vulnerability Assessment and Protection Option (VAPO) software. The contract has options that extend the effort over five years and includes requirements for both a stand-alone version of VAPO and integration of capabilities within DTRA’s net-centric architecture. Short-term requirements provide expanded modeling features (e.g., arbitrary shaped buildings with courtyards and overhangs), single-degree-of-freedom structural response modeling, and integration with DTRA computational fluid dynamics software. The net-centric development will provide urban facility and blast environment modeling within the DTRA Integrated WMD Toolset (IWMDT).

October 2006
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA has been awarded the prime contract from DTRA to continue development for the Integrated Munitions Effects Assessment (IMEA) software. Under the IMEA effort, ARA provides a suite of capabilities that serve the intelligence community, researchers and analysts, the simulation and training community, and operational warfighters engaged in weaponeering. This multi-year, multi-million dollar contract is a follow-on to ARA’s previous contract with DTRA to provide their flagship product. Dr. David Oakley, Systems and Operations sector manager, commented, “We attribute a large part of this contract win to the standard of excellence set by the engineers and scientists at ARA who have worked this program in the past.”

September 2006
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA recently acquired a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Protective Design Center (PDC) to develop an application independent module for the evaluation of structural damage based on the Component Explosive Damage Assessment Workbook (CEDAW). This module will be available to the blast community for incorporation into any blast analysis program. Source code will be provided with the module to allow for the addition and modification of structural elements. Any modifications to the module can be submitted to the PDC for review for incorporation into the publicly available source code.

June 2006
Orlando, Florida. Applied Research Associates, Inc. was awarded the "AEAS Flu Pandemic" by the National Guard Bureau. The objective of this effort is to develop AEAS-Individual for use in training emergency management responsibilities in response to various domestic contingencies, to include a potential Influenza Pandemic. The AEAS Program is a distributed emergency response simulation for which ARA will provide provide high quality training, exercise facilitation support, and technical support. For more information see website http://www.myaeas.com.

Orlando, Florida. Collide, Inc. awarded Applied Research Associates, Inc. a subcontract for the "GPU-base Line of Sight Integration into the OneSAF Objective System (OOS GPU Integration)". This 6 month effort is contracted by RDECOM to provide integration of GPU-based technology into OneSAF Objective System (OOS).

Orlando, Florida. Applied Research Associates, Inc. was awarded the Matrex Weather Study Program by Research, Development & Engineering Command (RDECOM) office. Under this effort, ARA will research and develop an approach to integrate weather effects, beginning with static weather into MATREX. The study will include an assessment of the architectural impact of integrating weather effects, analysis of MATREX components, and how they can be affected by weather, an assessment of current weather models, compatibility of weather models with OOS.

May 2006
Raleigh, North Carolina. Applied Research Associates, Inc. has been awarded a contract for system engineering and development of electronic countermeasures (ECM) technologies to defeat remote controlled improvised explosive devices (RCIEDs). Through this contract, ARA will improve the usability and functionality of ECMs used by explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams.

One of the most hazardous operations faced by EOD technicians is approaching a live weapon during response operations. ECMs disable the electronic signals from radio frequency (RF) trigger devices, preventing explosive device detonation prior to it being rendered safe. To be effective, however, ECMs must be easy to use by technicians in hostile environments and contain sophisticated electronic algorithms to defeat the wide variety of RF trigger devices employed by terrorists. ARA will work with a diverse team of EOD experts and engineers to improve the functionality of RCIED ECMs and improve the safety of EOD operations. Our work on this program will result directly in saving the lives of civilians and EOD operatives during response operations. ARA offers a wide variety of technologies and services for countering the threat from IEDs. Some of our other technologies are EOD and UXO (unexploded ordnance) training systems, robotics and disruptor technologies, detectors and sensors, personal protective equipment, intelligence systems, and blast effects research.

April 2006
Raleigh, North Carolina. Applied Research Associates, Inc. was awarded a contract to provide enhancements to the Hardened Target Module (HTM) of the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manual (JMEM) Weaponeering System (JWS). This contract is with the Department of Defense Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness through the Air Force’s Air Armament Center, Eglin AFB. The contract extends through January 2007 and covers new features that will be a part of JWS Version 2.0.  This project will focus on enhancing the weaponeering schoolhouse methodology; developing and integrating an expanded target/weapon capability; developing a prototype tool that imports Smart Target Model Generator (STMG) models; developing and integrating calculation enhancements such as reduced runtimes; supporting data-driven modular architecture; and providing documentation, training and VV&A support.

November 2005
Raleigh, North Carolina. Applied Research Associates, Inc. and Tempest Technologies have been contracted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to explore a new solution concept, Autonomous Management of Battle Information Requirements and State (AMBIRS), to provide automatic identification of data collection requirements and required sensor asset allocation in the presence of uncertainty.  Increasing reliance on battlefield sensors yields data collection demands that far exceed asset capabilities and availability. Using new stochastic game-based computational methods, AMBIRS will enable commanders to quantify their battlefield situational awareness, understand where mission-critical information gaps exist, and autonomously task collection assets to fill these gaps.

September 2005
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA was awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to design and construct a software architecture to simulate nuclear weapons effects (NWE). ARA was awarded the contract through DTRA's Nuclear Technology Weapon Effects Modeling and Simulation (NTEM) division.Through this contract ARA and its teammates will design and construct an architecture to support the large number of independent nuclear weapon effects models that currently exist. David Hope, the ARA Principal Investigator of the Nuclear Capabilities Services (NuCS) program, says “By uniting many years of research and analysis in the area of nuclear weapons effects into a single simulation framework, we can greatly increase the efficiency in these types of analyses. In addition, by integrating the system with the DTRA Enterprise Architecture, the simulation capability will become more readily available to a larger user community.”ARA develops other large-scale, engineering-centric software applications for DTRA such as the Integrated Munitions Effects Assessment (IMEA) and the Vulnerability Analysis and Protection Option (VAPO) software.

May 2005
Raleigh, North Carolina. Applied Research Associates, Inc. was awarded a contract to integrate vulnerability effects from DTRA’s Integrated Munitions Effects Assessment (IMEA) software tool with DTRA’s Survivability Planning and Intercept Evaluation Tool – DTRA (SPIET-D). This is a subcontract with ATK/Mission Research Corporation in support of their contract with Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Alexandria, VA. The contract extends through November 2007 and also covers integration of SPIET-D features in DTRA’s Nuclear Capabilities Services (NuCS).

Phase 1 of this project will focus on providing a simplified vulnerability assessment for facility evaluation in the SPIET-D version 16 based on the IMEA nuclear vulnerability assessment models. The second phase of this project will address the integration of SPIET-D functionality into the NuCS program including porting of capabilities and business logic into modules for use on the NuCS calculation server.

Orlando, Florida. ARA has been awarded the SE Core Standard/Rapid Terrain Database Generation Capability contract from the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) center entitled “Framework Optimizing Rapid Generation of Environments (FORGE)”.ARA will be teaming with TERREX and DIGNITAS Technologies to deliver a robust and extensible environment generation framework. ARA’s FORGE framework will integrate Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) terrain generation tools as plug-ins to accept diverse source data, normalize it into standard datasets, and produce correlated end-user products for simulation and training.The PEO-STRI SE Core STDGC program will integrate technology developed under the RUGUD effort to provide high-resolution urban insets as part of a larger training area .

April 2005
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA was awarded the “FightSight” contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Under this eight-month effort, ARA and its partners (Planning Systems Incorporated and Lawrence Livermore National Labs) will develop a new aerial surveillance system for detecting and tracking battalion-level urban firefights. FightSight combines acoustic and thermal detection capabilities with novel 4D (space and time) fusion techniques to provide field commanders with a holistic dynamic picture of the movements and evolution of the enemy unit.

March 2005
Raleigh, North Carolina. ARA was awarded the “Optical Mapping and Navigation Instrument (OMNI)” contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). During this one-year effort, ARA and its partner, Sarnoff, will develop a soldier-borne sensor suite that combines multiple sensor technologies to enable mapping and navigation in GPS-denied urban and underground facilities. By dynamically generating maps of such facilities in real time, and helping the soldier navigate through unfamiliar territory, this technology will help eliminate the enemy’s “home field advantage.”

February 2005
Orlando, Florida. ARA has been awarded the Rapid Construction of Urban Terrain Databases contract by the US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command Simulation and Training Technology Center. Under this two-year effort, ARA will develop an open database generation system supported by automated processes and tools to enable rapid generation of realistic geospecific representation (databases) of urban environments for tactical operations. With this win, ARA will set the standard for Army urban database generation with a repeatable, cost-effective solution.

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