EG&G VISION: To create value in an environment of ever accelerating change
Over 50 Years of Excellence
More than fifty years of direct engineering support to a wide range of government departments and agencies has resulted in noteworthy past performance ratings, personnel experienced in managing and improving complex programs, a reputation as an exceptional team integrator and partner, and exceptional performance results. As your best value contractor and full service partner, EG&G strives to satisfy your requirements and expectations and to achieve its vision.Achieving effective solutions to the toughest, most pressing management, business and technical problems is not a simple task. It requires an innovative and motivated work force, leadership committed to exceptional customer service, a commitment to performance excellence and services and products designed to address the dynamic needs of the 21st century. EG&G's ability to quickly assemble and integrate a capable team to respond to a customer's need is a hallmark of EG&G.
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Our Commitment
EG&G is a company renowned for quality services and products, superior technology, and financial strength. We earn trust by operating with integrity and by demonstrating our long-term commitment to the markets we serve. We provide powerful solutions by offering superior services, products and support to our customers. EG&G offers unparalleled cross-industry expertise, opportunities to gain from synergies across businesses, and a commitment to provide ongoing support to individual customers and markets.
We understand the critical issues and challenges that are facing our customers and we will work as committed partners to create innovative solutions. Our team of companies provides exceptional value by proactively helping to articulate your needs, and by responding quickly and effectively to support your success. We know that you take your responsibilities very seriously and you can count on us to do what we say.
Strategic Planning
Concept Development and Requirements Analysis
Vision Development - Includes analysis of national/agency policy and guidance applicable to the program/activity of interest to establish a vision or set of overarching capability goals upon which near and long term technology strategy can be developed.
Mission Analysis - Includes detailed analysis of program missions as aligned to established capability goals to identify deficiencies or shortfalls in execution that can be translated into a prioritized list of requirements against which technology development alternatives can be evaluated.
Organizational Performance Analysis - Includes assessment of an organization's ability to execute its organizational responsibilities for technology development. Identified deficiencies or shortfalls in execution serve as the basis for organizational realignment, Information Technology (IT) support recommendations, or manpower change justification.
Technology Sector Studies - Includes disciplined research techniques, including internet research, applied on a national and/or international scale to report on the status of technology development in high interest technology areas.
Technology Program Research - Includes a thorough review and assessment of funded research activities ongoing within government and commercial organizations to identify possible programs available for investment leverage as technology alternatives that address the requirements of interest.
Technology Strategy Development - Includes the application of a system engineering approach to weigh technology development alternatives and their potential payoff against prioritized requirements to develop an optimally balanced set of time-phased technology investment recommendations.
Technology Transition Planning - Includes the process of developing roadmaps which provide detailed planning milestones and critical decision points that ensure multiple organizations coordinate as required to transition technologies from advanced development to system development to production and insertion on an operational platform or in an operational system.
Technology Development Planning - Includes the preparation of program schedules, budgets, planning documents, presentations, and acquisition planning documentation required to manage and implement technology programs.
Special Studies - Includes the preparation of special reports in technology areas that react to questions from higher authority. These reports can take the form of trade-off studies, impact assessments, risk analyses, or other directed efforts related to the management or implementation of new technologies in government programs.
Systems Design Engineering and Integration
Concept Studies and Analyses - Includes the identification and characterization of alternative systems responding to operational requirements or other drivers, such as affordability or technological opportunity; application of systems engineering disciplines to translate operational needs into system solutions addressing design, manufacturing, test and evaluation, deployment, operations, support, training and disposal; top-down functional analysis and allocation of requirements to subsystems; design synthesis and verification; and performance of preliminary risk assessments and system safety analyses.
Evaluation/Traceability of Alternative Technical Approaches - Includes performing feasibility analyses; developing Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), Measures of Performance (MOPs), and Key Performance Parameters (KPPs); performing and validating systems effectiveness analyses, cost/performance trade-offs, cost and operational effectiveness analyses (COEAs); and performing scenario and sensitivity analyses.
Technology Assessment - Includes reviewing technology trends; performing assessments of new and emerging technologies for correspondence to mission-specific requirements; and providing analytical services to support implementation of design improvement, technology insertion, technology refreshment, and to identify opportunities for the use of commercial and non-developmental items.
Cost Analysis - Includes developing and applying Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs); preparing Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) estimates; developing cost baselines, thresholds and objectives; identifying potential cost drivers; affordability assessments; design variant cost analysis; and supporting cost reduction and affordability initiatives (e.g., Total Ownership Cost (TOC) reduction).
Concept Definition and Documentation - Includes preparation of technology conceptual designs, preparation of concept decision records and concepts of operation; documentation of objectives for cost, performance, and schedule; identification of opportunities for trade-offs; and approaches to acquisition strategy, T&E strategy, and risk mitigation.
PPBS Cycle Support - Includes the preparation of inputs into the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) (e.g. POM issue papers, budget estimates) to support the development of new concepts and upgrades.
Production Planning and Support - Includes producibility analyses; prototype and low-rate production capabilities; manufacturing technology assessments; and production acceptance test program planning.
Threat Evaluation - Includes monitoring and interpreting threat assessments and projections; mapping of new and emerging technologies to counter evolving threats; and evaluating proposed alternative responses to specific threats.
Defense Requirements Analysis - Includes assessment of Defense Planning Guidance, Strategic Plans, Force Level Requirements, and Mission Area Analyses to identify priorities for new systems and technologies; translation of broadly stated mission needs into system-specific requirements; and definition of thresholds and objectives relative to the requirements.
Development and Documentation of Requirements - Includes formal definition of requirements and preparation of requirements documentation.
Regulatory Compliance Support - Includes analysis of applicable statutes, regulations, directives and instructions (e.g., Environmental, Safety and Health) potentially affecting new concepts; identification of alternative means of compliance; assessment of issues associated with alternative concepts; and estimation of costs of compliance for various alternatives.
Business Case Analyses - Includes characterization of proposed concepts in terms of investment costs, expected benefits, risks, and implementation issues; performance and documentation of discounted cash flow analyses for proposed concepts; and ranking/prioritization of candidate concepts by business metrics (e.g., annualized rate of return, payback period, and total return).
Modeling and Simulation - Includes designing, developing, manufacturing, testing, installing, and operating computer models and simulations to support concept evaluations and program planning; applying existing models and simulations; and identifying and developing improvements to existing models and simulations.
Risk Assessment - Includes developing risk management and assessment tools; performing independent risk assessments; and developing risk databases to assist in managing risks beginning with concept definition.
Special Projects - Includes performing ad hoc studies and analyses and providing technical experts for independent assessments of technological feasibility of proposed concepts and technologies.
Test and Evaluation
Translating System Concepts into Design - Includes applying the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) IS-632 Systems Engineering (SE) Process (tailored as required for individual system or component). The SE process is the framework for transforming top-level performance requirements, objectives and goals into an optimized product; it includes requirements analysis, functional analysis and allocation, synthesis, and systems analyses and control. Through a series of iterative steps, top-level requirements are functionally analyzed and allocated to systems. As the design progresses, functional analysis is used to allocate requirements to subsystems and then to individual components. Validation of lower level functional and systems level requirements is continually performed with the overall goal to reduce program risk. Also inclusive in this process is interface management, configuration control, data management and the establishment of performance metrics.
Risk Identification/Analysis/Mitigation - Includes the full range of risk management used throughout the system or component design, development, production and employment and includes the continuous identification and analysis of risk areas, development of associated risk mitigation actions, and continuous monitoring of risks through to resolution.
Prototype Development - Includes the process best approached through scientific method; bringing a solid grounding in engineering principles to bear on a problem while remaining open to the quirks of inspiration. Typically this is an iterative process, with many layers of development between design and form. Familiarity with a wide range of engineering materials, a strong knowledge base in the physical sciences, and adherence to excellence in engineering practices (while avoiding the rigid mindset often associated with engineers) has helped EG&G breathe life into hundreds of projects. Includes providing the design, drawings, specifications, material, facilities and testing.
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) - Includes designers, drafters and illustrators expert in the latest CAD and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) packages; extensive experience in electrical and mechanical design with government and commercial customers; design software including the latest versions of ORCAD, AUTOCAD and CADKEY; Pro/ENGINEER's CAD and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) tools; IGES translation software for interface compatibility; and analysis software such as MATHCAD, Supercalc, HYDROFLO, HYDRONET, HCALC and LAGOR Finite Element Analysis packages.
Design Studies and Analysis - Includes cost/technical trade studies and effectiveness analyses developed to resolve design issues and ensure a balanced system from a performance and cost perspective. We identify and provide issue papers, trade-off studies, specific functional analyses, operational and maintenance performance data analysis, thermal analysis and reverse engineering studies.
Technology Research - EG&G engineers are currently assisting a variety of government and commercial customers in pursuing advanced technologies for several areas including material science applications (composite materials, corrosion control, coatings and stealth). Our engineers are members of several submarine and surface community technology assessment Integrated Product Teams that review a wide variety of technologies and weigh performance improvements against cost and projected user requirements.
Specification Preparation - Includes requirements development and management. EG&G engineers are experienced in establishing functional baselines, developing specification trees, and performing system specification validation for multiple complex real time systems and components.
Configuration Management - Includes technical analysis and oversight of Configuration Management process and configuration status accounting. We provide both technical and administrative assistance in the identification, design and documentation of functional, allocated and product baselines. Configuration Management support includes change control, record and report change processing, implementation status tracking, and development and conduct of responsive audit processes to identify and manage original design installations and design modifications from initial system design, throughout the product life-cycle and through to final disposal. EG&G is also adept in Configuration Management activities in the challenging COTS/NDI environment.
Fabrication and Assembly - Includes experience in the fabrication and assembly of a wide variety of mechanical components, optoelectronics and instrument devices used in an assortment of applications including laser warning receivers, night vision equipment, EW systems, missile safe and arming devices, GPS satellites, fiber-optic gyroscopes and imaging systems. Specific products include emitters and detectors such as infrared detectors, semiconductor lasers, focal plane arrays, imaging tubes, thermoelectric and sterling coolers detonators and small precision power supplies; detection and measurement instruments; and highly-reliable advanced seals and bellows products and precision aerospace and heat dissipation devices.
Simulation and Modeling - Includes system and operation simulation and modeling experience in a wide variety of simulation and modeling programs and software including: MicroSim Pspice Circuit Analysis program; Advanced Synthetic Environment (AdViSE) simulation for survivability simulation, and NATO's Reference Mobility Model Edition II (NRMM II); and a strong capability to utilize these and other advanced tools to promote improvements in system performance.
Integrated Logistics Support
Test Plan Development - Includes drafting, revision and support staffing for the approval of all T&E master plans; coordinating with engineering teams during the development, review, and comment resolution of all test documents; and creating integrated schedules.
Test Conduct - Includes participating in test readiness reviews and test monitoring by providing detailed independent recommendations regarding test readiness and conduct; and ensuring test activity compliance with approved test plans, procedures, and exit criteria.
Test Reporting - Includes reporting during and following laboratory evaluation; during and following developmental testing; during system integration and operational testing; and follow-on testing and evaluation.
Live Fire Test and Evaluation - Includes identifying areas of concern, proposing how these areas will be addressed, identifying necessary analyses and component/system tests, addressing deficiencies identified in the test program, and monitoring final ship level tests (total ship survivability trial, ship shock test).
Integrated Product and Process Team Support - Includes active participation in Integrated Process Teams to identify and resolve test issues.
Simulation/Stimulation Models - Includes designing, developing, manufacturing, testing, installing, and operating simulation and stimulation models and systems to verify/validate the operation of systems/platforms.
Special Projects - Includes performing special projects, studies, analyses, and independent assessments and providing experts for investigations and other special needs.
Acquisition and Life-Cycle Management
ILS Management - Includes a highly trained logistics workforce, experienced in all aspects of both acquisition logistics and project life-cycle support including determination of logistics requirements; development of logistics planning documents (e.g. Logistics Requirements Funding Summaries, Integrated Logistics Support Plans, Functional Requirements Documents, Operational Requirements Documents, and Test and Evaluation Master Plans); development and monitoring of performance based logistics requirements for contract specifications and statements of work; conduct of system Total Ownership Cost (TOC) evaluations; development of TOC reduction plans, monitoring contract performance, conducting independent and continuous logistics supportability assessments in support of program reviews and acquisition milestone decisions. Design and management of program tracking metrics, financial planning, obligation and expenditure tracking and detailed logistics management training services and tools are also available. Program support personnel participate in the Integrated Process and Product Development functions and other working group functions to provide a full range of technical and management support capabilities and experience in system life-cycle support development.
ILS Engineering/Maintenance Planning - Includes planning for preventive (Planned) and corrective (Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)) maintenance. Performing all aspects of maintenance planning for a system starting with tailored supportability analyses, e.g., Level of Repair Analysis (LORA). EG&G Logistic Engineers perform reliability and maintainability assessments, and supportability analyses, e.g., Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECAs) assessing life-cycle support needs and identifying the requirements for effective sustainment of a system.
Supply Support - Includes all management actions, procedures, and techniques necessary to determine the requirements for acquiring, cataloging, receiving, storing, transferring, issuing, and disposing of secondary support items. This includes provisioning for initial support as well as replenishment supply support, review of provisioning requirements and program support data sheets, spares modeling, determination of packaging, handling, stowage and transportation requirements, establishing and managing interim support requirements, inventory management and Just-In-Time Support (JITS). EG&G Supply Support Analysts are adept at developing support strategies for Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and Non-Developmental Items (NDI) and other non-traditional support methodologies and processes.
Personnel and Training - Includes manpower and personnel analyses, training situation requirements analyses, development of preliminary ship manpower documents, development of training concepts and training plans, Authoring Instructional Material (AIM) curricula development, electronic classroom integration, development and review of interactive courseware and interactive multimedia instruction.
Trainers and Training Devices - Includes cradle-to-grave trainer design, development, integration, testing and life-cycle support. Perform detailed planning and analyses for both operational and maintenance trainer requirements using a comprehensive knowledge of emerging technologies needed to optimize overall training effectiveness. Training personnel are experienced in all aspects of the government and commercial software development environments, standards and policies. Includes facility planning, performance of site surveys, test procedure development and installation certification support.
Support and Test Equipment - Includes maintaining currency with the latest Government and commercial sector logistics innovations and applying current principles to computer-based processes to develop Support and Test Equipment plans designed to optimize equipment performance. Includes assessment of support and test equipment, development of implementation plans, test procedures, and test hardware development schedules, test event schedules, test planning and consolidation and preparation of user agency assistance plans and matrices.
Transportation and Handling - Includes identification of special handling requirements or constraints, hazardous materials (HAZMAT) handling requirements and Electrostatic Sensitive Device (ESD) protection requirements. EG&G will determine how components or equipment that are oversized, fragile, sensitive, dangerous, or subject to other handling restrictions must be handled and transported. EG&G will make recommendations to ensure safe material handling and transportation, including modes of delivery, special packaging, shock mitigation devices or other techniques for protection, technical escorts, unique handling devices, environmental control and emergency procedures for items which are hazardous to handle or store, as well as preventive maintenance or lay-up actions required during storage or transportation to ensure the items will be ready for use when received.
Facilities - Includes analysis of existing facility infrastructure (e.g., piers, harbors, physical clearances, utilities, airfields, test ranges, warehouses, etc.) to determine possible constraints on new system designs, as well as new construction and alteration projects needed to support new systems. A full range of facilities support planning and document generation (e.g., Facilities Planning Criteria) is available.
Environmental, Safety and Health (ESH) Planning - Includes analyses and planning efforts necessary to optimize the integration of environmental, safety and health considerations into system designs and alterations, resulting in environmentally compliant systems that are safe to operate. ESH Planning is a service that goes hand-in-hand with facilities planning and systems development. EG&G environmental specialists ensure the systems developed are environmentally compliant while meeting all legal and functional requirements.
Logistics Technical Data - Includes extensive experience in providing military, government, and commercial clients with development and management services to help ensure quality technical data and training products are complete, accurate, useable and effective for system operators. Includes the conceptualization and development of Logistics Technical Data products as simple as an equipment user guide or as complex as a complete integrated electronic technical data, maintenance, and operation and training manual. Our experience ranges from paper based products to state of the art electronic interactive display. Our professional staff of technical and training experts can determine the most cost effective and technically robust method for system technical data development.
Computer Resources - Includes planning, development and execution of digital data repository programs that support integrated business process solutions critical to customer success. These solutions exist in both Internet and Local Area Network environments, and are designed to reduce cost and increase efficiency in day-to-day communication and work processes, and minimize travel-related costs. EG&G can develop the business process improvement software necessary to manage and control all aspects of a systems acquisition or life-cycle support process.
EG&G will accomplish all aspects of procurement/production, fielding, and the life-cycle management of a program or system, including disposal. EG&G is well experienced in applying a Total Systems Approach to optimize total system performance and minimize the cost of ownership. The interdependencies of complex programs are well understood and will be addressed throughout the planning and execution tasks.
Acquisition Planning Process - Includes services to develop and document a tailored event-driven acquisition strategy that will serve as the roadmap for program execution during the entire program/system life-cycle; risk management; consideration of cost as a key aspect of program planning; contract approach; management approach; test and evaluation requirements; and environmental, safety, and health considerations. This event-driven acquisition strategy will link program decisions to demonstrated accomplishments in development, testing, initial procurement/ production, and life-cycle management.
Acquisition Planning Activities - Includes services to translate operational needs into technical and/or performance requirements; performing business case cost analyses for make/buy decisions, including initial market research and subsequent market surveillance during the system life-cycle; reducing procurement or production lead times through a tailored acquisition strategy implementing a concurrent/Integrated Product Team approach.
Risk Management - Includes the assessment and management of risk using a variety of techniques, including technology demonstrations, prototyping, and test and evaluation. Planning will take advantage of proven industry processes that contribute to streamlining and use of only value-added activities.
Cost Estimates - Includes life-cycle cost estimates based on program objectives, operational requirements, and contract specifications for the system. These estimates will reflect a realistic appraisal of the level of risk expected. Analysis of alternatives for designs, procurements and support structures will be substantiated from a cost and performance view using their respective life-cycle cost estimates, with the intent to reduce and minimize Total Ownership Cost by identifying and influencing the cost drivers. Cost modeling will be used to provide repeatable cost estimates that can be analyzed for sensitivity to individual parameters, as well as provide cost estimates for evaluation of alternatives.
Budgeting Process - Includes services to take the cost estimate for the program, system design or procurement configuration of record, and provide a detailed breakdown of funding requirements. This budget profile will provide a level of detail comparable to the program planning schedule. Dependent on the complexity of the system, the design, procurement, and/or production configuration will be laid out in a tiered (i.e., work breakdown structure) format that will be similarly reflected in the budget layout. The budgeting process will incorporate the risk management process by considering potential needs for risk mitigation funding, and then budgeting appropriately.
Budget Documentation - Includes providing methodology, data sources, ground rules, assumptions, and calculation methods ( i.e., model or formulas) that are used in calculating the budget. This documentation will be sufficient to ensure that future budget adjustments, e.g., in response to funding resource changes, are a simple matter of recalculation rather than starting from the beginning to develop a new or revised budget.
Contracting Process - Includes services to implement the acquisition strategy. EG&G will adhere to applicable contract laws and regulations in this process, and will work to obtain a fair price for products and services which meet the technical and performance requirements of the program.
Contracting Activities - Includes contracting strategy (contained as part of the overall acquisition strategy), acquisition planning, developing the procurement packages, the solicitation process, proposal evaluation, discussions and negotiations, contract award, and contract monitoring. The contract type (e.g., cost plus or fixed price) will be part of the contracting strategy; contract incentives and warranties will also be applied where appropriate to motivate contractors to exceed predetermined thresholds for performance, delivery, and reliability and maintainability.
Systems/Program Management - Includes services to manage the operation and support of the system after fielding, throughout its service life, and then through the disposal phase. EG&G will translate system operational needs into stable, affordable programs during the early life-cycle phases of a system, then concentrate later on the task of acquiring quality Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) products. During the operation and support phase of a system's life-cycle, EG&G will concentrate on maintaining and improving the performance of the system while continuing to acquire high quality logistics products that meet the user's needs at the optimum level of performance and cost.
Total Systems Approach - Includes consideration for not only the primary equipment, but also the people who will operate and maintain the system, system security, system operation in the intended environment, as well as abnormal environments, system compatibility with other systems and with the existing support infrastructure, related training and training devices, data and documentation, and the system's potential impact on the environment. This Total Systems Approach supports all functional areas of ILS, including maintenance planning, technical documentation, supply support, support equipment, Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation (PHS&T), Manpower, Personnel and Training (MP&T), facilities planning, computer resources support, and configuration management. EG&G will also perform reliability and maintainability-related efforts intended to improve supportability by achieving and surpassing system availability requirements.
Supportability Analyses - Includes logistics and supportability analyses that are integrated with the systems engineering process to provide up-front input during the early system life-cycle phases to facilitate making decisions on logistics support and influencing design to achieve supportability.
System Deployment and Initial Fielding - EG&G will assess impacts upon field supportability in two general areas; first by determining the impact upon the existing support structure when the system is initially fielded, and second by determining potential problems due to inadequate sources of supply, support capability, or modification after shutdown of production lines.
Logistics Assessments - Includes performing assessments during all system life-cycle phases to analyze all programmatic aspects which address the effectiveness of logistics planning, overall readiness, and post-production supportability of a program. We will assess whether ILS planning efforts are proceeding in accordance with established policies and procedures. We will also identify problems that may affect achievement of supportability thresholds and objectives.
Modeling and Simulation - Includes modeling and simulation to support trade-off studies, particularly in the analysis of performance and cost impacts during the development phase of a system, when influencing system design is easiest and most cost effective.
Environmental Planning - Includes a unique sensitivity to environmental planning and its importance in the system life-cycle. EG&G will address environmental considerations relating to all system areas, particularly facilities planning, maintenance planning and disposal planning. EG&G's intent is to influence design early during the development phase such that future problems and associated costs are minimized during the operation and support, and disposal phases of the system.