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1.1 LIFECYCLE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 1.2 LIFECYCLE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION 1.3 MISSION INTEGRATION
1.4 DISCIPLINES 1.5 DOMAINS
2 CYBER
2.1 CYBER STRATEGIC CONSULTING 2.2 CYBER ASSURANCE
2.3 CYBER ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION 2.4 FULL SEPCTRUM CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS 2.5 CYBER TRAINING AND EXERCISES
3 MISSION ASSURANCE
3.1 INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION & VALIDATION 3.2 MISSION PROTECTION
3.3 QUALITY & SAFETY MANAGEMENT 3.4 TEST & EVALUATION
4 ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE
4.1 ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT 4.2 COST ESTIMATING AND ANALYSIS 4.3 ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT
4.4 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
4.5 POLICY ANALYSIS AND DECISION SUPPORT 4.6 PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
4.7 STRATEGIC PLANNING & BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
5 INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE & RECONNAISSANCE
5.1 SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE 5.2 INTELLIGENCE
6 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
6.1 LARGE SCALE NETWORK ENGINEERING 6.2 MOBILE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT
6.3 MOBILE/WIRELESS RF COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS 6.4 SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS
6.5 SECURE MESSAGING
6.6 TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
7 INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS & OPERATIONS SUPPORT
7.1 INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
7.2 INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS, TARGETING, RESEARCH AND REPORTING
7.3 SCIENCE & TECHNICAL OPERATIONS, SUPPORT AND REPORTING
7.4 OPERATIONS SUPPORT 7.5 INTELLIGENCE TRAINING
8 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DATA ANALYTICS
8.1 CLOUD COMPUTING 8.2 DATA ANALYTICS
8.3 INFORMATION SHARING 8.4 NETWORK ARCHITECTING 8.5 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
9 SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
9.1 ACOUSTICS
9.2 ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS
9.3 ADVANCED MODELING AND SIMULATION 9.4 CHEMISTRY/BIOLOGY
9.5 COMPUTER SCIENCE 9.6 CRYTOGRAPHY SCIENCE
9.7 ELECTOMAGNETIC ENGINEERING AND ANALYSIS 9.8 ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE
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9.10 HEALTH SCIENCE
9.11 HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING 9.12 INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT/TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION 9.13 LASER 9.14 MATERIAL SCIENCE 9.15 MATHEMATICS 9.16 METEOROLOGY 9.17 NANOTECHNOLOGY 9.18 NUCLEAR 9.19 PHYSICS 9.20 ROBOTICS
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1. Systems Engineering & Integration. Capabilities to organize, apply, and deliver
engineering knowledge, skills and abilities coupled with disciplined processes and tools for the definition, development, and deployment of systems.
1.1. Lifecycle Systems Engineering. Capabilities to apply an Integrated TASC approach
for performing the Systems Engineering (SE) function across the program lifecycle. SE is the sub-discipline of SE&I concerned with (1) the translation of user needs into
architectures, requirements, analysis, standards, and other technical artifacts required to successfully design and build a system as well as (2) conduct of technical studies required for analysis of alternatives (AoA) to ensure optimized solutions that will achieve mission success.
1.2. Lifecycle Systems Integration. Capabilities to apply an Integrated TASC approach
for performing the Systems Integration (SI) function across the program lifecycle. SI is the sub-discipline of SE&I concerned with bringing together component elements into one homogenous system while ensuring that these elements function together properly as a whole in the target environment. Lifecycle Integration includes systems integration, verification, validation, transition to operations, and configuration management.
1.3. Mission Integration. Capabilities to provide Systems Engineering and Integration
planning and analysis, enterprise management, and program protection for a broad range of Intelligence, Defense and Civil missions to ensure user and mission needs are satisfied.
1.4. Disciplines. There are a broad range of engineering disciplines that are critical to SE&I
that TASC routinely provides to our customers including: Systems, IT, Electrical,
Mechanical, Structural, Software, Aerospace, Test & Evaluation, Logistics, Enterprise, and Process engineering.
1.5. Domains. Full Lifecycle Systems Engineering and Integration for a broad range of
domains in the Intelligence, Defense, and Civil arenas to include C4ISR, ground, air, and space systems, and IT systems.
2. Cyber Capabilities related to Cyber Security operations including Consulting, Assurance,
Engineering and Integration, Full Spectrum Operatinos and Trainig.
2.1. Cyber Strategic Consulting. Subject Matter Expert support in strategy, policy,
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2.2. Cyber Assurance. Capabilities and services to test enterprise or system cybersecurity
through vulnerability and penetration testing, and through these assessment provide recommendations to protect, detect and respond to cyber threats, such as intrusion detection & firewalls, host-based security, data loss prevention, compliance management, identity management and biometrics, access controls, and mission assurance/continuity of operations.
2.3. Cyber Engineering & Integration. Cyber engineering and integration support
through a range of development methods (e.g., SAGE, Agile/Rapid development) to produce solutions for meeting defend, attack and exploit requirements -- including software/hardware assurance and attack/exploitation capability, tool development (Defense/Attack/Exploitation), cyber effects planning and design, technical intelligence engineering, test & evaluation and certification and accreditation.
2.4. Full Spectrum Cyber Operations. Full spectrum cyber operational support
(Defense/Attack/Exploitation) to operations centers (Computer Emergency Response Teams, Security Operations Centers, Cyber Intelligence Fusion Centers) in targeting, analytics, decision support, multi-intelligence fusion, network discovery and mapping, situational awareness, visualization, modeling and simulation, and mission reliability and assurance.
2.5. Cyber Training and Exercises. Capabilities in cyber education, training, and
awareness through cyber attack/defend/exploit exercises, cyber ranges operations, cyber mission preparation and our Cyber Warrior.
3. Mission Assurance. Capabilities to apply engineering level assurance processes over the
lifecycle of a program to identify and mitigate deficiencies that could affect mission success using disciplined application of general system engineering, quality, performance
measurement & analysis, and process management to achieve mission success.
3.1. Independent Verification & Validation. Capability to independently identify and / or
remove defects to ensure a system complies with its stated requirements while meeting the user needs.
3.2. Mission Protection. Capabilities to augment the Lifecycle Security portfolio of
processes designed to address the unique and sensitive requirements of Special Access Programs (SAP) which often require linkage of Intelligence Support to Operations (ISO) and exquisite management of External Interfaces and Transactions (EI&T).
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3.3. Quality and Safety Management. Capabilities to apply standardized approaches for
evaluating the processes, products, services of an organization through audits of the
implementation of the processes and the work products of the process against documented standards, processes, and procedures.
3.4. Test & Evaluation. Capabilities to achieve formal verification of a system’s ability to
meet stated requirements.
4. Enterprise Governance. Capabilities through which the sound application of judgment is
optimally applied in managing resources to meet enterprise objectives.
4.1. Acquisition Management. Capabilities to manage the efforts of all personnel
responsible for an acquisition assuring coordinated and integrated actions, and
comprehensive planning to meet acquisition needs in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost. Also includes the sub-disciplines of Earned Value Management and Schedule Analysis.
4.2. Cost Estimating and Analysis. Capability to create comprehensive, auditable, and
unbiased estimates of the cost of a system or element including development of realistic and defensible budget profiles over time for programs and systems.
4.3. Enterprise Management. Capabilities to facilitate the identification and
communication of enterprise objectives, the definition and allocation of authorities and responsibilities, and management of resources and training to effectively realize anticipated benefits. All governance levels are linked together to ensure that each organizational action is ultimately aligned with organizational strategy.
4.4. Financial Management. Capabilities to manage the financial resources of an organization including the sub-disciplines of Planning Programming Budgeting and
Execution, Audit Preparation, Internal Controls, and Accounting Operations.
4.5. Policy Analysis and Decision Support. Capabilities to provide support to
government decision makers concerning development of policy options, analysis of trades among policy alternatives and support for decisions at senior government levels.
4.6. Portfolio Analysis. Capabilities to centrally manage a collection of projects and/or
programs in a coordinated way to achieve specific strategic organization goals and objectives.
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4.7. Strategic Planning and Business Transformation. Capabilities to shape and focus
enterprise/organizational priorities through the development and documentation of strategic goals, objectives, values, and expected outcomes, while incorporating internal and external influences. These capabilities also support the development and
implementation of specific investment management programs and initiatives to deliver critical capabilities designed to improve business, enterprise, and mission operations. Business Transformation capabilities serve human capital, resource, and business process managers through process reengineering and performance management activities to achieve more efficient, effective, and successful business and mission operations.
5. Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance. Capabilities to design, develop, integrate
and operate sensors, assets, processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems in direct support of current and future operations.
5.1. Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Capabilities to design ISR sensor systems and
packages for manned and unmanned aerial systems, national systems and maritime systems. Sensors, phenomenology, models and awareness systems comprise the key capability elements.
5.2. Intelligence. Capabilities to design, develop, and integrate systems and tools that are
used to exploit different portions of intelligence domains such as HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT, GEOINT, etc., including fusion and attrition.
6. Communications Systems. Capabilities related to the engineering and integration of
communications systems that employ electromagnetic and/or optical transmissions of signals across both wired and wireless systems in terrestrial, air, and space environments including any associated protection/encryption requirements.
6.1. Large Scale Network Engineering. Capability to engineer large scale computer
networks to support large mission system or enterprise data and computing needs.
6.2. Mobile Applications Development. Capabilities to develop robust software
applications for mobile platforms that commonly use wireless communication technologies in ad-hoc networks.
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6.3. Mobile / Wireless RF communications systems. Capabilities related to engineering
communication systems based on mobile hardware platforms, using wireless RF
technologies, ad-hoc networks and similar capabilities to produce robust, secure, and agile communications systems.
6.4. Special Communications. Capabilities to engineer communications systems with low
probability of detection / low probability of interception or other unique characteristics associated with secure mission communications.
6.5. Secure Messaging. Capabilities to engineer systems dedicated to mission secure
messaging in operational environments.
6.6. Telecommunications Engineering. Capabilities to engineer systems designed for
general telephony, multi-media, computer, and computer network systems.
7. Intelligence Analysis, Operations Support and Reporting. Capabilities associated
with Intelligence analysis, analytics and tradecraft and the support of Intelligence Operations including reporting
7.1. Intelligence Operations. Capabilities to support intelligence operational activities,
field operations, watch center support, training support and similar functions
7.2. Intelligence Analysis, Research, Analysis and Reporting. Capabilities to develop,
conduct, modify or extend tools and methods that support Intelligence research and analysis. The development of intelligence tradecraft techniques and methods. Capabilities to support intelligence research and analysis in support the various INTs (e.g. SIGINT, GEOINT, HUMINT, MASINT, OSINT, All Source, etc)
7.3. Scientific & Technical Operations, Support and Reporting. Capabilities to
develop, conduct, modify or extend scientifically and/or technically-based collection tools and systems to support and conduct intelligence operations; including intelligence
collection operations incorporating various S&T-related “-INTs,” such as SIGINT, FISINT), COMINT, GEOINT, MASINT – and reporting.
7.4. Operations Support. Capabilities that assist a wide range of operational systems and
programs operate at peak efficiency and effectiveness. This support includes: program and financial management, systems development, hardware/software engineering, test
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7.5. Intelligence Training. The capability to provide customers with the acquisition of
knowledge, skills and competencies as a result of teaching key skills related to current intelligence analysis, intelligence operations, engineering, and breakout technology areas. Operations training, Cyber Warrior and Cost estimating are just a few of the training capability areas supported. In addition to the basic training, courses are presented to maintain, upgrade and update skills.
8. Information Technology/Data Analytics. Capabilities to apply advanced technologies to
the processing and manipulation of digital information
8.1. Cloud Computing. Capabilities to implement cloud computing strategies for IT
operations. Areas defined by NIST cloud computing definition.
8.2. Data Analytics. Capabilities to manage manipulate and analyze very large data sets
to support analysis, operations or decision making.
8.3. Information Sharing. Capabilities to support government programs to securely share
information across program and agency boundaries to increase operational effectiveness while maintaining adequate controls and protections for the information.
8.4. Network Architecting. Capabilities to design and implement data networks through
the correct application of processes, tools, and IT technologies.
8.5. Software Development. Capabilities to architect design and develop software
applications and tools to support TASC business models.
9. Science and Engineering.
9.1. Acoustics. Capability to apply the science of acoustics to our customer’s misisons. 9.2. Astronomy/Astrophysics. Capability in the science of astronomy and astrophysics to
support customer missions
9.3. Advanced Modeling and Simulation. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and
tools of advanced modeling and simulation to support decision making or solve specific problems.
9.4. Chemistry/Biology. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and tools of chemistry
and biology to our customer’s missions.
9.5. Computer Science. Capability to apply fundamental computer science techniques to
our customers’ missions.
9.6. Cryptography Science. Capability to apply fundamental mathematical techniques and
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9.7. Electromagnetic Engineering and Analysis. Capability to apply fundamental electric
engineering principles to solve problems in the field of electromagnetics.
9.8. Environmental Science. Capability to apply fundamental scientific principles and
knowledge to solving problems relating to natural environments.
9.9. Geology. Capability to apply fundamental principles and knowledge in the field of
geology.
9.10. Health Science. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and tools of health sciences
including diagnostics, health IT, physiology, and disease tracking.
9.11. Human Factors. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and tools of human factors
engineering to provide assessments or solve specific problems
9.12. Independent Technical Assessment / Technology Evaluation. Capability to
assess the technical design, operation or implementation of a complex system. Capability to evaluate technology and its potential to meet customer requirements.
9.13. Laser. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and tools of laser sciences to provide
assessments or solve specific problems.
9.14. Materials Science. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and tools to the field of
material science.
9.15. Mathematics. Capability to apply mathematic concepts to a variety of problems. 9.16. Meteorology. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and tools of meteorology to
provide assessments or solve specific problems
9.17. Nanotechnology. Capability to apply fundamental principles and knowledge in the
domain of nanotechnology as applied to our customers’ missions.
9.18. Nuclear. Capability to apply the scientific discipline and tools of nuclear sciences to
provide assessments or solve specific problems
9.19. Physics. Capability to apply the scientific principles of physics to solve customer
problems.
9.20. Robotics. Capability to apply fundamental principles and knowledge in the field of