Our Capabilities

VES aids government and private sector firms interested in improving their ability to innovate through our engineering support team. Services range from putting in place organizational processes to spur innovation to enabling selection of innovative new technologies for a strategic or operational purpose. Additionally, VES provides services overseeing development of innovative technologies from within the organization.

The VES team includes engineers with extensive hands on experience in private industry, operational military service, and government R&D. Our engineering team has the unique skills to help clients identify capability gaps and then develop and source emerging technology driven solutions to enable our customers to push the boundaries of what is possible.

VES helps clients innovate in the unmanned vehicle space. VES employees have substantial undersea operational and technical expertise and cutting edge knowledge of maritime Unmanned Undersea (UUV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) operational and technical issues; we also have personnel with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) analysis experience. We can help you manage the development of unmanned vehicles and enable a better understanding of operational use profiles that are more likely to be attractive in a real world environment.

VES provides defense related analysis and study support for government and commercial customers. VES methods provide a fact-based, and hypothesis driven approach to frame and solve client challenges. As part of its critical analysis capability, VES also provides customers with a unique ability to “stress test” strategic planning options and operational concepts via use of alternative futures, wargaming or business simulations and other tools to enable more robust decision-making in the face of an uncertain future. VES has particular insight in areas of maritime and undersea competition, unmanned operations, integrated air and missile defense, and Pacific operations.

VES provides engineering, programatics, and operations expertise in advanced energy and propulsion systems. Our team includes experts in energy production, including nuclear reactors, and marine propulsion with years of experience in both operations and design. In particular, we have signifcant experience in cutting-edge, unmanned vehicle propulsion systems and operations. We can assist your organization navigate and manage complex energy and propulsion problems.

VES enables your organization to make better business decisions. We use a variety of tools such as financial modeling, multi-variate selection criteria, alternate futures and simulations to enable an organization to both select the best course of action and to future proof that decision. VES provides strategic planning and strategic implementation services: developing or updating organizational strategies and improving an organization’s ability to implement a chosen strategy.

VES provides qualified government agencies with experienced and well trained acquisition support personnel. Services include program management and strategies to maximize potential for acquisition programs to meet key decision thresholds. We provide experienced acquisition professionals with operational backgrounds that enable a nuanced and deep understanding of requirements and operational impact of programmatic decisions. We enable the private sector to understand operational requirements to enable better designed acquisition products.