TEST AND EVALUATION
Evidence the mission can stand on.
SimIS plans and executes test and evaluation for defense and homeland security programs, from operational test support to joint T&E, so decisions rest on data instead of assumptions.
Test and Evaluation
Acquisition decisions are only as good as the testing behind them. SimIS provides cradle-to-grave test and evaluation for defense and homeland security customers: requirements determination, test planning, execution, data collection and analysis, and results reporting across both developmental and operational testing. Our teams work inside the acquisition process, on government sites and test events, producing the documentation and analysis that programs need at each decision point.
Testing at SimIS is not a standalone service line. We build software, engineer unmanned systems, and model missions, and that same engineering bench designs and runs our test programs. Teams that build systems know where they break.
Where testing lives across a program: DT&E alongside development, OT&E before fielding, and JT&E cutting across services. SimIS supports the full span.
Operational Test and Evaluation
SimIS supports operational testing that puts systems in front of the people who will use them, under the conditions they'll face. Our OT&E experience spans traditional test events and agile programs, where test planning, execution, and reporting run on sprint and release cadences rather than waiting for a single end-of-development event.
We have provided sustained OT&E support to the Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force and to the DHS Customs and Border Protection Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition, including operational testing for the Remote Video Surveillance System Upgrade program.
Developmental Test and Evaluation
DT&E runs in parallel with development, verifying technical progress and certifying readiness for operational test. SimIS brings an architecture-driven approach shaped by years of executable architecture work for the OSD Operational Architecture Branch, so test design traces to the system architecture rather than bolting on at the end.
Joint Test and Evaluation
SimIS is a prime contractor to the Joint Test and Evaluation Program, with staff on site at the JT&E office in Suffolk, Virginia. JT&E solves operational problems that cut across services, producing new tactics, techniques, and procedures rather than new hardware. Our analysts support joint test design, execution, and evaluation from inside the program.
How the DOT&E-managed JT&E program turns operational problems into fielded tactics, techniques, and procedures. SimIS supports this process from inside the Suffolk office.
Scoping a test program, or weighing what your requirement actually needs? Ask us. No pitch, no obligation, just a straight answer.
Why SimIS
Simulation-informed testing
Our modeling and simulation practice and our partnership with the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center let us rehearse test events virtually, extend live results constructively, and get more evaluation out of every test dollar.
Rehearse virtually, execute live, extend constructively. The simulation bench makes every live event worth more.
Autonomy under test
Through our Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory and our position on the Navy's Unmanned Surface Vessel Family of Systems IDIQ, we test autonomous and unmanned systems, a domain where test methodology is still being written.
Cleared and close
SimIS holds a Top Secret facility clearance, and most of our staff hold active clearances. We are headquartered in Suffolk, inside the Hampton Roads test and evaluation community, minutes from the commands we support.
Hampton Roads has anchored Navy operational testing since OPTEVFOR stood up in Norfolk in 1945, and the joint test and evaluation community works from Suffolk today. This is the neighborhood SimIS is built into.
Contract vehicles and corporate credentials live on our Government Services page.
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Whether you're scoping a test program or evaluating SimIS for an upcoming T&E requirement, we're glad to help. Ask about our test planning and execution experience, past performance, procurement vehicles, or anything else your acquisition team needs, and we'll respond quickly.
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