QTSI
Custom Research and Development
A core competence of QTSI is its vertical integration of expertise at all aspects of a system environment, from a thorough knowledge of the origin of the input data, through its processing and analysis, to an operational perspective on the resultant actionable information or knowledge delivered by the system to the user.
This combination of skills, usually found only in very large corporations, is routinely brought to bear on a wide range of customer-requested research and development tasks. QTSI vertical expertise is accelerated by the agile responsiveness of a small organization to support the focused R&D and rapid prototyping needs of its customers. Our science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, and analytical skills combine to routinely exceed customer expectations for research and development performance, quality, and ultimate operational utility.
Geophysics
Earth. Air. Water. The three domains of our planet are all conducive to the propagation of energy. From footsteps to nuclear explosions, voices to bolides, underwater landslides to airplanes, everything excites energy that, when properly recorded, becomes its technical signature. The goal of QTSI scientists is to understand the phenomena and every "wiggle" of that signature. The goal of QTSI engineers is to reduce that understanding to operational practice.
QTSI is expert at technical signature collection, analysis, and exploitation. A "technical signature" is any measurable pattern characteristic of natural or human events and behaviors.
Our expertise starts with keen knowledge of natural and human activities and how they excite the propagation media to then interact with modern sensing equipment. Whether the detection range is thousands of miles or just a few feet, QTSI has developed capabilities for detecting, analyzing, associating, identifying, and locating the signal sources. QTSI's experts on seismic, infrasound, acoustic, and hydro-acoustic physics and engineering provide a strong, effective presence at the reality end of the signal processing chain.
Intelligence Analysis and Irregular Warfare
QTSI's familiarity with Special Operations Forces' technology and practices, and close working relationship throughout the community, allows for efficient understanding and operationalization of our areas of expertise.
QTSI supports program offices with comprehensive management processes. This includes translating requirements into configured systems, integrating technical inputs, characterizing and managing risk, transitioning technology, and verifying that designs meet end users' operational needs.
QTSI offers technical experts in intelligence operations to include SIGINT, GEOINT and open source analysis and assessment. Under daily reporting requirements, QTSI facilitates information collection and intelligence analysis in support of military Combatant Commands as well as the National Command Authorities. For example, our Open Source intelligence analysts consistently confirm/refute external reporting on US military operations, providing not just a situational awareness to our client, but a situational understanding at the strategic theater level.
QTSI evolves and matures to ensure the services we offer are necessary and relevant:
- Policy Development, Planning, and Program Implementation
- Acquisition program management, capital planning, and program office support
- Acquisition Trends Analysis
- Technology Assessments, Systems Integration
- Financial Management in support of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Execution (PPBE) Process
- Requirements Analysis, Risk Assessment (Risk versus Gain), Cost/Benefit Analysis and Mitigation Support
- Mission Planning and Decision Support
- Intelligence Support and analysis
- Exercise Support, Wargame Design, and Data Analysis
Data Science
Data science is critical to all SBDE projects and programs. We are leaders in the areas of relational database design, implementation, operation, and optimization. Our databases must remain functional and accessible while storing large amounts of new data from internal and external sources, handling processed data, and generating archives. The databases must be maintained, repaired, and optimized for efficiency, addressing problem areas before they affect data retrieval and exploiting opportunities for increasing performance, reliability, and capacity.
Our engineering and scientific staff includes experts in both transactional and technical signature databases and their linkages to analyst interfaces, data and information sourcing, and output reporting tools. Their skills and capabilities support both QTSI products and services, and advanced custom research and development programs.
Geographic Information Systems
The output information of any data processing system must be formatted to provide accurate, precise, correct, and immediately useful knowledge to the system user or customer. QTSI is expert in the development and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Research and development products have little value if they are user-hostile or even user-neutral in final form.
QTSI engineers and scientists have versatile, web-based knowledge reporting tools which have broad applications in several military, government, and commercial markets. They are rapidly adaptable to the requirements of a variety of R&D programs at QTSI.
The applications of our capabilities include interrogating large, complex, and distributed databases in real time via an intuitive interface with no knowledge of Structured Query Language or the Data Model required. We integrate human readable, alphanumeric, and binary data into visual and contextual interfaces that seamlessly interact. The power of QTSI's approach is that our interfaces are web-based, non-intrusive, and deliver custom, actionable information in formats supporting immediate interpretation and decisions.
System Engineering
Many of QTSI's research and development programs focus on system development. A central strength of QTSI is systems and software engineering. In a typical application, a constant stream of collected input data must be collated, stored, analyzed, and distributed. Actionable results must be reported in a timely, useful manner. All data must be archived in a readily accessible format. The system supporting these activities must be operational on a 24/7 basis, and its performance and capabilities monitored and continuously improved. QTSI has proven performance as a total systems integrator for mission-critical data systems. We understand and practice formal development practices. The system may be worldwide, with multi-source data, it may be local, for covert area monitoring or facility characterization, or it may be to support data mining activities for commercial or intelligence applications.
A thorough understanding of a system's input data, in concert with QTSI expertise in software, analysis, and systems engineering enable our highly regarded system research, design, development, implementation, operations, optimization, and maintenance performance.