KBR Digital Accelerators

Shortening the distance between data and decision.

KBR’s clients are facing some of humankind’s greatest challenges. The ability to rapidly push technological boundaries to solve those challenges is crucial.

KBR Digital Accelerators are our suite of cutting-edge, disruptive digital solutions and technologies. Our experts deploy these innovative solutions to cut the distance between data and decision-making and to transform our clients’ businesses by:

• Driving speed to market
• Generating strategic and cost advantages
• Reducing risk
• Increasing operational agility

KBR Digital Accelerators are the catalysts behind more than 100 initiatives for clients spanning defense, national security, space, energy transition and security, infrastructure, industry-agnostic asset operations and maintenance, and other areas.

KBR Digital Accelerators include:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Systems
• Cybersecurity
• Data Analytics
• Digital Engineering
• Enterprise Technology

Artificial Intelligence

Strategically integrated to deliver results, not just AI for AI’s sake

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a valuable tool across industries. Unfortunately, in a rush to deploy it, strategy falls by the wayside. KBR strategically integrates AI that helps our clients achieve their goals. Our comprehensive range of AI solutions includes large language models, natural language processing, and machine learning (ML) for space health systems and biological research, real-time energy and industrial asset monitoring, cognitive tactical PNT (position, navigation and timing), and more.

Generative AI

KBR’s AI network is revolutionizing the way we do business. This groundbreaking technology employs large language models and generative AI to streamline operations, automate text-based activities and enhance overall efficiency.

Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning

KBR’s natural language processing and linguistics toolsets for analytics enable improvement of low-quality data using semiautomated techniques, rapid prototyping of algorithms against real-world data, and automated data tagging and categorization.

Intelligent Asset Management (IAM)

IAM is a scalable, cloud-based platform that integrates AI/ML with KBR’s deep domain expertise across both greenfield and brownfield projects. IAM streamlines data analysis to identify inefficiencies, reduce costs, minimize downtime and enhance asset performance, driving top quartile asset performance and helping unlock significant working capital for our clients.

IAM use cases include:​

• Full client DaaS services
• Processing drawings, documents, data and link to assets​
• Master data build, migration and enrichment​
• Asset hierarchy​
• Criticality​
• Maintenance​
• Bill of materials
• Materials​
• Inventory optimization

Autonomous Systems

Human ingenuity and expertise powering next-gen, multiplatform systems

KBR is shaping the future in autonomy, combining global expertise, advanced digital tools and the power of data analytics to help clients achieve mission success. Our capabilities include all aspects of autonomous and unmanned systems — from digital environments to space rovers to underwater platforms — with activities spanning science and inspection to logistics and military deployment.

Artemis Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)

Artemis is KBR’s complete sub-25-kilogram multirotor system optimized for rapid startup and launch and swift, agile flight (circa 100 kilometers/hour). The Artemis family of autonomous systems is designed for GNSS-denied operations and high-tempo, threat-to-life emergency use cases. Features include a simple user interface, electro-optical/infrared cameras or ultrafast response 2DOF gimbal designed and manufactured in house, long-range BVLOS-capable radios, human portable carriage subsystem, and more.

TTMT (Tracking and Targeting Moving Things)

TTMT is the heart of KBR’s autonomous systems. Our proprietary control algorithms enable rapid, truly autonomous closed-loop offboard UAS control in 8DOF, including gimbal. Custom implementation combines state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks and classical computer vision tracking approaches for multitarget identification and high-frame-rate tracking at the edge. TTMT enables GNSS-denied object of interest identification and the ability to follow fast-moving vehicles on land or at sea. Additional features include precise, semantic subregion tracking and compatibility with electro-optical/infrared cameras.

Dash C3

KBR's DASH C3 is an interactive graphical user interface that provides real-time situational awareness and decision support through the coordination of multiple sensing assets all observing complex suites of uncooperative objects. Users can adjust the desired situational awareness parameters and dynamically configure the display based on specific features or targets of interest. Dash C3 has been developed and used in multisensor, multi-object scenarios.

Autonomy Digital Environment

KBR’s cloud-based digital environment accelerates the design, integration, testing and fielding of next-generation autonomous capabilities, reducing the timeline for game-changing operational capabilities from decades to years. Our transformative approach to complex development and integration activities enables rapid evaluation and comparison of autonomy implementations across multiple system providers and development teams.

Cybersecurity

Safeguarding critical data, systems and the newest global battlespace

KBR’s highly cleared and skilled workforce is at the forefront of cybersecurity, providing both government and commercial clients with the solutions they need to safeguard mission-critical networks, systems, devices, programs and data. Our clients can always count on us to deliver robust, secure, compliant solutions that are thoroughly tested and validated against established standards.

CRYSTALVISTA℠ and Quantum Pantheon℠

KBR has integrated commercial and government software and hardware capabilities to deliver both a secure warfighting fabric (CRYSTALVISTA) and high-performance computing nodes (Quantum Pantheon) to give clients the tactical edge.

CRYSTALVISTA is a secure warfighting fabric that is data, system, platform and cloud agnostic. The solution uses combinations of data paths, including commercial internet, to create a global mesh network through which sensitive encrypted data may be quickly and securely transmitted. Quantum Pantheon accelerates the ability to sense and make sense of any operational environment by processing and contextualizing data where it’s created. While they operate as standalone solutions, both employ a modular open systems approach that enables maximum interoperability and sustainment at mission speed.

Cyber Range

KBR's Cyber Range is a secure virtual platform for real-world cyber testing and defense tactic development. The Cyber Range facilitates advanced network simulations without impacting mission-critical systems. Clients can practice incident response and recovery procedures and test new cybersecurity tools and technologies, improving their ability to effectively respond to cyberattacks.

Data Analytics

Transforming client data into next-gen solutions

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KBR’s clients work in areas of increasing global economic and geopolitical importance. That’s why they count on our experts to deliver solutions that help them turn their data into better, more informed decisions. From assessing goals and determining objectives; to developing new models and gathering data; to testing, evaluating and delivering the final solution, KBR is with our clients at every level, transforming data into insights into innovation.

CleanSpend℠ powered by ENCOMPASS℠

KBR CleanSpend is the most comprehensive life cycle carbon analysis solution available for offshore platform oil and gas projects. CleanSpend’s automated engine calculates emissions over a project’s lifetime, including previously hard-to-calculate scope 3 emissions, and generates results within minutes. These insights can then be used to make more informed decisions to minimize carbon emissions at the earliest possible stages of a project’s development.

INSITE®

This unique digital solution offers remote technical and advisory services for operating plants and other facilities. KBR INSITE securely gathers data and analyzes it to provide value-adding insights into process performance. Traditionally used in the chemicals and industrial sectors, INSITE is being expanded to include aircraft systems operations.

Iron Stallion℠

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Iron Stallion is KBR’s premier enterprise software application for space situational awareness. Iron Stallion is a persistent analytical platform focused on data integration, operator and machine workflow aiding, automated data analytics, and advanced work-centered user experience. This command-and-control software application provides advanced data analytics and visualization capabilities for the U.S. Space Force, coalition partners and commercial entities.

CSOM

CSOM (Center Scheduling Optimization Module) is KBR’s automated enterprise scheduling solution. CSOM’s advanced optimization algorithm simultaneously considers the entire solution space of the project and optimally schedules precisely configured mission assets and infrastructure to maximize utilization of often limited or expensive resources. Our proven methodology improves schedule robustness and quality and can be applied to many types of large and labor-intensive scheduling problems.

WRAITH

The KBR WRAITH (Warfighter Real-time Analysis and Interoperability with Truth) suite enables real-time visualization of multiple tactical, commercial and instrumentation systems. WRAITH is highly customizable, allowing interface and algorithm components to be independently developed and dynamically loaded into the application at runtime. Data can then be routed between components as defined in a configuration file. This allows WRAITH to be configured in dramatically different ways depending on the use case.

Athena

KBR’s Athena turns large, dynamic data sets into confident decision-making. Athena is a large-scale data management, analysis, visualization and reporting suite purpose built to provide large-scale data management, data analysis and visualization, powerful automation, and reporting capability in a team environment. Features include powerful automated script-generation tools; interactive data sorting, filtering, and grouping; and scalable and extensible advanced data processing and data analysis algorithms.

HAL

KBR HAL (Harness for Adaptive Learning) automates the exploration and exploitation of modeling and simulation tools, extracting insights from existing digital assets. HAL is an advanced experimental design, adaptive sampling, and machine learning framework that facilitates the understanding of computer simulation models, algorithms, and black-box systems that have automated, repeatable, and complex behavior. HAL scales with the problem set from a single node on a workstation to distributed execution in a high-performance computing environment. HAL supports analyses across a wide range of domains and modeling and simulation fidelities, including applications in system design, verification and validation, reverse engineering, and portfolio management.

Digital Engineering

Cutting-edge digital technologies with crucial real-world implications

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The ability to quickly and efficiently connect people and their data to the right technology has never been more critical. KBR’s digital engineering solutions leverage our deep domain expertise across multiple industries and combines it with cutting-edge technologies that enable us to use client data to solve their most complex challenges.

Digital Twin powered by ENCOMPASS℠

KBR’s data models combined with world-leading project management, engineering and digital innovation expertise place it firmly at the forefront of digital project and digital twin delivery. KBR digital twin technology provides valuable insights not only during the project planning phase but also for operations and maintenance further into the project life cycle.

KBR Digital Engineering Environment

The KBR Digital Engineering Environment is a secure, cutting-edge, hybrid-cloud digital environment that connects a distributed community of digital practitioners with multiple virtual and physical laboratory locations to conduct exploration, experimentation, prototyping, development, and training. KBR’s Digital Engineering Environment enables integrated, model-based engineering activities across the acquisition life cycle including large-scale system modeling, simulation, software development, system architecture development, and additive manufacturing.

Framework for Operationally Responsive Mission System Software

KBR’s adaptable mission system software framework enables rapid delivery and integration of critical mission software, from tactical embedded systems to enterprise cloud solutions. The framework uses extensive automation to enforce architecture and quality requirements, enabling multiple parties to collaborate to rapidly assemble, validate, accept, and field software-intensive critical mission systems. This approach facilitates the design and delivery of adaptable open mission systems with shortened acquisition cycle times and significantly reduced total life cycle cost.

Expert Modelling and Simulation Tools

KBR has developed, validated, and deployed expert modeling and simulation ecosystems that have been used to hypothesize, develop and test new technologies (i.e., sensors and data processing algorithms/software and real-time battle management command and control) for complex enterprise systems.

MRLD

KBR Making Robust Life-cycle Decisions (MRLD, pronounced “emerald”) solution is a dynamic tradespace analytic platform that provides advanced decision support for system design tradeoffs across cost, benefits, mission and timing factors to enable informed decision-making for complex enterprises. MRLD’s intuitive decision analysis software uses the broadly applicable Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) methodology to enable informed, analysis-enabled decision-making across numerous domains. MRLD leverages existing models, connecting performance, cost, value, and uncertainty metrics with data exploration and visualization tools to provide actionable insights for complex problems.

BEAM

KBR BEAM (Bilateral Enterprise Analysis Model) is an enterprise-level simulation tool that helps our clients explore the potential implications and impacts of future technologies, strategies, force structures and changing access to infrastructure within the context of intelligent and adaptive adversaries. BEAM models both friendly and adversarial forces, allocating forces to missions and evaluating mission outcomes with the flexibility to rapidly insert and assess the effectiveness of new strategies and capabilities. BEAM enables rapid evaluation of force structure and strategy and more informed decision-making across current and future domains and scenarios.

GIANT

KBR GIANT (GPS Interference and Navigation Tool) is a mission-level modeling and simulation tool that predicts the impact of position, navigation and timing (PNT) system performance on operational effectiveness in benign, contested or degraded environments. GIANT has been applied to hundreds of analyses by U.S. and international civilian and military user communities. Uses cases include research and development, acquisition programs, test and evaluation, training, concept of operations development, mission planning and operations.

MBSEi

KBR’s unique MBSEi (Model-based Systems Engineering Integration) methodology is at the forefront of the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Digital Engineering Strategy and provides solutions across the entire program life cycle. MBSEi goes beyond “traditional” MBSE capabilities. We incorporate powerful tools in a seamless MBSE framework, integrating standard and custom models, simulations, tools, and databases that interact with an authoritative source of truth to inform enterprise and program decision-makers. MBSEi uses advanced 3D visualization in a secure immersive environment to improve digital engineering practices and stakeholder collaboration. Our domain and architecture experts lead and support digital engineering execution and transformation efforts for our customers, providing focused solutions that improve execution success and that ensure continuity of model use across the entire program life cycle, from individual systems to complex systems of systems.

Automated Engineering

Automated Engineering is KBR’s evolving tool suite for high-quality, assured delivery of engineering concept, design and project management. Automated Engineering combines KBR’s global engineering expertise and best practices with various technologies, platforms and bespoke solutions to enable next-gen engineering delivery. The suite allows project leadership in both KBR and the client organization to manage project delivery with confidence and data assurance every step of the way.

Enterprise Technology

Secure, at-scale digital solutions enabling the future of modern business

The world is changing moment by moment. Businesses that can’t use data and digital tools to adapt and affect change risk being left behind. From cybersecurity to digital transformation expertise, to digital infrastructure and cloud integration, to software and app development, KBR has the solutions and know-how to help businesses transform to meet tomorrow’s demands today.

Vaault®

KBR Vaault, a versatile software-as-a-service (SaaS) mission platform, enables customers to tailor multiple commercial cloud platforms to meet the multifaceted requirements of defense, national security, science, space exploration and civilian missions. Vaault provides an environment to securely host client-specific solutions and aligns with the stringent standards of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) High and DoD SRG IL5 baselines, ensuring robust security compliance.