Engineering Services
Concept Development and Requirements Analysis
With a broad awareness of our client’s resources, capabilities, and needs, Ideal Innovations ascertains which of its problems are most amenable to technological solutions. We start by formulating, analyzing, and vetting broadly defined technological approaches. We then recommend promising concepts only after verifying their ability to out-compete alternative technological choices, as well as non-technical options. Alternative options may involve training and education, organizational change, methodological innovation, operational or tactical reorientation, and leadership development. Should a compelling concept emerge, Ideal Innovations can then commence formulating physical requirements. This starts with broader functional definitions and moving down to more refined performance criteria. To support concept development and requirements analysis, Ideal Innovations offers specific services such as:
- Conducting market surveys to establish the range of capabilities and technologies at varying levels of cost and risk
- Performing complex trade-off studies, involving multifarious communities of interest.
- Balancing immediate production and logistics expenses with long-term life-cycle costs.
- Developing system requirements based on both current and anticipated mission needs
- Translating operational and tactical performance gaps into system requirements
- Conducting studies of risk management, issue/conflict resolution, and project/program schedules
- Developing cost models based on varying program concepts and assumptions.
- Organizing Red Team/Blue Team exercises to test different technological concepts.
