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