Systems Implementation

Validating and verifying system performance compliance to contract specifications

Issues and Challenges

• Ensuring new systems meet performance requirements and allow for expansion and upgrades
• Reducing performance, cost, and schedule risks associated with implementing land mobile radio (LMR) systems
• Working closely with the selected vendor to ensure a smooth transition from the existing system

When an organization awards a contract to upgrade its LMR systems, the immense job of planning and managing system implementation begins. Establishing performance metrics, cost controls, and project schedules and milestones is critical to successful implementation. Independent validation and verification requires rigorous acceptance criteria, strong technical understanding, and objectivity. An objective third party experienced in evaluating and corroborating system designs and implementations can mitigate performance risk and provide these organizations with justification for budget expenditures.

The Booz Allen Solution

• Manage risks throughout implementation to ensure proper performance, cost control, and schedule adherence
• Verify coverage prediction to ensure the system complies with the overall technical specifications and meets coverage requirements
• Analyze traffic capacity for both trunked or conventional systems to ensure efficient, effective, and reliable communications
• Optimize existing networks (collocation analyses, shared systems, performance optimization power, antenna reconfiguration)
• Test and demonstrate system performance and capabilities

Why Booz Allen?

• We provide an unbiased evaluation of system architecture proposals, achieving best value to meet specific needs.
• We bring best practices to our clients by leveraging our lessons learned from the numerous independent, objective LMR analyses we have conducted.
• We have successfully used our mature, proven statistical methodologies and tools to perform comprehensive system tradeoff studies for LMR systems.
• The tools in our state-of-the-art Wireless Engineering Laboratory enable us to test alternative transition strategies and study the implications, thereby reducing the risk of implementing costly, inefficient systems.