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Preferred Provider of Optimization and Analytic Support 

OptTek Systems provides the Department of Defense and our industry Partners with unmatched analytical expertise, leveraging 30+ years of experience in mathematical modeling, AI-powered model optimization, and advanced analytics.

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OptTek Systems has a proven track record of delivering critical insights to key defense organizations, including the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), and the Secretary of the Air Force’s Studies and Analysis Directorate (SAF/SA), helping them make data-informed decisions to enhance mission success against evolving threats. We combine deep operational subject matter expertise with cutting-edge software to solve the DoD’s most complex challenges in readiness, resource allocation, and warfighting analysis.

What We Offer

OptTek Systems is the world leader in complex systems optimization, analytics, and experimental design. We help DoD organizations make superior data-driven decisions through our advanced software and experienced analytical personnel. Our services include:

  • Simulation Optimization: Leverage our world-leading operations research techniques and OptDef software to go beyond simple ‘what-if’ analysis. We wrap and optimize complex DoD modeling and simulation (M&S) tools like Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM), the AEGIS Combat System Ttest Bed (CSTB), and Synthetic Theater Operations Research Model (STORM) to identify superior system parameters, tactics, and operational plans that maximize mission effectiveness.
  • Efficient Test & Evaluation (T&E): Dramatically reduce the cost and timeline of testing and evaluation by using our proprietary adaptive sampling techniques. We generate high-quality response surface and boundary condition analyses with orders of magnitude fewer physical or digital trials, saving significant physical, computational, and analyst resources.
  • Data Science & Analytics: Our expert team transforms raw simulation and operational data into actionable intelligence. We apply advanced statistical methodologies, predictive modeling, and data visualization to uncover hidden insights and drive strategic decisions.
  • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Solutions: Our data science experts design and implement custom AI/ML algorithms. This includes modeling and simulation software development for real-time decision aids for battle management and creating clustering algorithms for efficient test scenario planning.
  • Model Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A): OptTek tools can be used in a continuous integration pipeline to rapidly identify simulation and AI/ML model errors and inaccuracies through model regression and stress testing.  OptTek developers and analysts have experience integrating our products into model creation and maintenance workflows to help establish trust in new models and maintain trust in fielded models.
  • Custom M&S Software Development & Support: Our in-house software engineers excel at M&S and AI/ML software development, creating production-grade algorithms and custom plugins to integrate disparate M&S and AI/ML tools. Our operations research and data science experts are available for both on-site (analyst-in-seat) and off-site collaboration to provide support tailored to your mission needs.

 

A Proven Partner in Defense Innovation

What truly sets OptTek apart is our consistent track record as a trusted, cutting-edge partner for the DoD.

  • Expert Team: Our team includes veterans from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps with deep expertise in optimization, simulation modeling and analysis, AI/ML model development and test, operational planning, software development, and systems engineering.
  • Proprietary Technology: Our advanced OptDef (simulation optimization and data science platform) and OptQuest (core metaheuristic optimization engine) tools are the core of our capability, forming the basis of OptTek’s powerful and user-friendly software solutions that significantly enhance analyst productivity and deliver deeper insights.
  • SBIR Success: We have a history of winning and successfully commercializing highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts. We have delivered on multiple Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III projects for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the U.S. Army, the Department of the Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, demonstrating our ability to deliver mission-relevant innovation.

 

Mission Areas

We support a wide range of mission areas, including:

  • Future Warfare Systems: Capabilities and materiel requirements.
  • Future Force Needs: Force structure requirements.
  • Concepts and Doctrine Analysis: Evaluate and develop operational concepts.
  • Acquisition and Modernization: Support procurement and upgrade initiatives.
  • Program Evaluation and Budget/Resource Allocation: Optimize resource distribution.
  • Strategic Readiness: Address current force needs.
  • Defense Strategy Planning: Assist in planning processes.
  • Operational Planning: Enhance posture and basing strategies.

Case Studies

Explore our success stories to see how we have helped organizations like yours achieve their goals.  Our experience at the leading edge of applied operations research and simulation optimization, as well as forging trusted simulation and AI/ML models for defense has made us the preferred provider of optimization and analytic support.

Missile Defense Agency: Efficient Test & Evaluation (T&E) via Adaptive Sampling Simulation Optimization

The MDA needs to generate “heatmap” (response surface) analyses to understand the effectiveness of the Missile Defense System across a wide range of scenarios. Traditional approaches, like full enumeration or dense sampling, would require orders of magnitude more simulation runs than are computationally feasible.

The Solution

U.S. Navy: Optimizing Hypersonic Weapon Performance

The U.S. Navy is working to rapidly develop and field hypersonic weapons, a process which requires analyzing a vast and complex parameter space to improve the Probability of Arrival (PA) and the Probability of Kill (Pk) of these new weapons.

The Solution

NAVSEA / PEO-IWS: M&S Optimization for AEGIS Modernization

To counter rapidly evolving anti-ship cruise missile threats, the AEGIS Combat System (ACS) requires frequent software updates. Identifying the optimal software-only changes from a nearly unbounded set of configurable parameters is a significant challenge for analysts.

The Solution

MDA: AI-Powered Battle Management for Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD)

The integration of new Directed Energy (DE) weapons with traditional kinetic interceptors introduces a new layer of complexity to the battle management decision-making process for commanders in dynamic environments.

The Solution

Continuous Test & Evaluation for AI-Powered Fire Control

When developing an AI agent for a critical system, like an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) fire control, developers must continuously verify that the model behaves correctly and that new updates do not introduce regressions. Manually testing the AI’s performance across all possible engagement scenarios is impossible.

The Solution

Stress Testing to Harden Simulation Models and Uncover "Brittle" Behavior

Simulation models can exhibit unexpected or “brittle” behavior at the edges of their performance envelope, creating vulnerabilities that are difficult to find with standard testing. Proactively identifying these failure points is critical for building trust in the model.

The Solution

Rapid Calibration of AI Models to High-Fidelity Benchmarks

High-fidelity, physics-based simulations (e.g., 6DOF trajectory models) are often too slow for large-scale analysis. Faster AI-based surrogate models are needed, but they must be accurately calibrated to match the “truth” performance of the accredited high-fidelity model.

The Solution
 

Core Methodologies: How We Deliver Advanced Solutions

Our advanced analytics and model optimization capabilities are powered by proprietary software and proven operations research techniques. Here is how we deliver results:

  • Intelligent Simulation Optimization with OptDef: We go beyond basic parameter sweeps. Our OptDef software acts as an intelligent “wrapper” around your simulation models (like AFSIM, STORM, CSTB, or custom Python models). It employs cutting-edge metaheuristic search algorithms (including Tabu Search and Scatter Search, developed by OptTek founders) to efficiently navigate vast, complex decision spaces. This allows us to find truly optimal system parameters, tactics, and operational plans that manual analysis or simpler modeling and simulation approaches would miss.
  • Efficient Experimentation via Adaptive Sampling: To maximize insights while minimizing costly simulation runs, we utilize a proprietary adapting sampling technique built on a specially adapted Kriging algorithm. OptDef intelligently creates a response surface and iteratively samples the next simulation point where uncertainty is highest. This machine learning approach builds highly accurate models of the entire trade space using orders of magnitude fewer runs than traditional methods. We further accelerate analysis using Difference Kriging to leverage results from prior studies. A variation of this approach can be used to efficiently identify boundary conditions as well.
  • Deep Analysis for Decision Support: Our toolkit enables sophisticated data science and operations research analysis:

    • Pareto Frontier Analysis: We identify non-dominated solutions to visualize the critical trade-offs between competing objectives (e.g., maximizing effectiveness vs. minimizing cost or risk). This empowers leaders with clear options for decision-making.
    • Scenario & Kill-Chain Analysis: Using advanced clustering algorithms applied to simulation outputs like “kill-chain vectors,” we identify the minimum set of test scenarios needed to achieve comprehensive coverage of test objectives, further optimizing T&E resources.
    • Simulation and AI/ML Model T&E: We provide a unique capability for the rigorous testing of simulation and AI/ML models within continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, using OptDef for automated regression testing, stress testing, and calibration against high-fidelity benchmarks.
  • Custom Integration & Software Development: Our expert software engineers perform modeling and simulation software development to create custom plugins and integration layers. This allows us to seamlessly incorporate the Government’s highest-fidelity tools directly into simulation optimization workflows, ensuring the most accurate and relevant results.

Benefits of OptTek Data Analytics

  • Optimize and Uncover Hidden Costs: Identify areas with potential resource savings.
  • Better Insights: Provide valuable insights into customer data to inform strategic decisions.
  • Increased Efficiency: Improve efficiency through data-driven analytical and process optimization and automation.

Our services improve efficiency through data-driven analytical software and process optimization and automation.

Our Satisfied Clients have said…

“OptDef has streamlined our workflow so much, I feel like I have extra analysts on the team!”

“The time we save with OptDef lets us focus on other analytical efforts and ‘what if’ analysis that really matters.”

“Even our analysts with minimal coding and M&S experience can use OptDef effectively.”

“I was up and running with OptDef in less than a day.”

“We produced better answers with orders of magnitude less computational and analyst effort than our old manual methods.”

What can OptTek do for you?

Solving the world's most complex challenges through optimization and analytics for over 30 years.