QinetQ NSC’s bespoke simulations and mathematical models have been deployed across Defence’s arms and agencies for the past three decades and continue to assist in procurement processes, measuring the effectiveness of capabilities and experimentation.

They are the modelling and simulation lead for Dstl’s Analysis, Science and Technology Research in Defence (ASTRID) – a role which builds on a rich heritage of support that ranges from the provision of qualitative visualisations and analysis to refining software and mitigating obsolescence.

QinetiQ NSC has worked on three of the five mission critical models used by Dstl’s Defence and Security Analysis division – WISE, CAEn and HLCM – re-engineering code to operate in the latest computing environments and utilising multi-processor and multi-threaded approaches to increase performance. Combined with their improved user interfaces, their endeavours have delivered dramatic results with some tasks that once took analysts ten minutes now taking just ten seconds.