Systems Engineering

Toyon’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering Team provides a spectrum of services related to evaluating methods for protecting facilities from chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) threats. The HS systems engineering team’s capabilities include:

Application of systems engineering techniques and methodologies to a range of issues associated with protection of facilities from CBR attack.

• Technology assessments
• Effectiveness evaluations
• Cost/benefit analyses
• Concepts of operations/response procedures

Modeling and simulation

• Developing mathematical models for transport of CBR agents inside facilities
• CONTAM multi-zone airflow model
• Modeling CBR threats for evaluating new and available technologies

Test planning and execution for characterizing facilities

• Airflow properties
• Population characteristics
• Contaminant transport measurement using tracer gas (e.g. SF6) releases
• Flow, pressure, and building leakage measurements

The majority of Toyon’s Homeland Security Engineering Team works on confidential classified projects. Recent unclassified projects include:

• Building Protection Toolkit – Sponsor: DARPA. Project: support the creation of the Building Protection Toolkit (formerly Immune Building Toolkit)
• Counter Underground Facilities – Sponsor: DARPA. Project: characterize underground connectivity between above-ground buildings
• Mail Facility – Sponsor: US Postal Service/Northrup Grumman. Project: assess placement of biological detection systems at Curseen-Morris (formerly Brentwood) postal facility