System-of-Systems Expertise on a Global Scale

Torch provides research, development, engineering, scientific, and analytical disciplines to ensure that developed systems have been properly tested and evaluated. These disciplines include test architecture and scenario design, test planning, test resources and provisioning, pre-mission risk reduction analysis, and post-mission data reduction and analysis. We develop software to parse, reduce, and analyze raw data collected from the tested system. Torch supports a full range of test articles (component, system, system of systems) and test venues (HWIL, flight test, ground test).

Test Architecture & Scenario Design

Operational and threat representative designs that exercise the system under test in an executable, cost-efficient manner, yielding a data set that meets all system evaluation requirements.

Test Resources & Provisioning

Identification, management, and deconfliction of all test resources, such as instrumentation, telemetry, range sensors, communications, and facilities required for successful test execution and
data collection.

Pre-Mission Risk Reduction Analysis

Pre-mission risk reduction activities using digital and HWIL simulations, identification and analysis of risk items, and pre-mission checkouts of the system under test.

Post-Mission Data Reduction & Analysis

Reduction and analysis of collected test data to validate test construct or conditions, assess system performance, and identify observed anomalies.

A Cornerstone Capability

Our Missile Defense Test and Evaluation Expertise is a Foundational Capability

Torch’s expertise with the test and evaluation of missile and air defense systems dates back to the founding of our company. Over time, we have matured this capability enormously. Today, our engineers and analysts orchestrate test events on a global scale as a prime contractor for the Missile Defense Agency. Our analytical teams are continually advancing the tools, processes, and phenomenology needed to analyze our ability to defend against increasingly complex systems. We continue to explore new horizons such as the application of machine learning to assist with the ever-increasing volume of information.

Test & Evaluation