Government

Twelve years of answers to your most important questions.

Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps organizations bring us the questions that are hard to answer: Does this system work for the person operating it? Is this training producing what it promises?

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The record

Proof, not promises.

More than 40 programs, and as many published papers and talks: I/ITSEC, MODSIM, HFES, MORS, IT2EC, NORDEFCO, and peer-reviewed journals. Our evaluation methodology isn’t proprietary magic. It’s in the literature, where you can check it.

Ten years of continuous Army measurement research from interoperable assessment data in 2015 to wearable-sensor squad evaluations today, under contract through 2026.

Five Navy SBIR and STTR efforts as prime since 2016, the most recent completing in 2025.

Air Force training devices evaluated from pilot prototypes to a mixed-reality aircrew simulator, same published framework each time.

A marksmanship diagnostic built for the Marine Corps and transitioned into the Infantry schoolhouse.

A DoD-wide financial readiness app designed, built, enhanced and made publicly available in the app stores.

We collect data where the work happens: live-fire ranges at night, operating schoolhouses, aircrew simulators. Some firms subcontract their field work. For us the field is the job.

Capabilities

HOW WE SUPPORT
THE MISSION

Evaluation and effectiveness.

Your system claims faster qualification, better retention, fewer errors. We define success before fielding, design the comparison, run the study, and give you an answer that stands up in a program review.

Performance measurement.

Most performance data won't support a decision. Scores measure the wrong thing, ratings shift between raters, systems can't be compared. We build measures that are valid, reliable and interoperable.

Human factors and HSI.

If operators fight the interface, the system fails regardless of the hardware. Rapid heuristic review through full IRB-governed study.

Front-end analysis and requirements.

What the system has to do for the operator, established from the actual work, before it's built.

Emerging technology, evaluated honestly.

XR, adaptive systems, AI-enabled capabilities. What the evidence supports, not what the demo suggests, and whether it's worth the sustainment effort.

About our size

We're a small business.

QIC is a small business. The scientists who lead our research do the work themselves.

We maintain IRB-approved human subjects research capability, we have handled controlled unclassified information (CUI) across multiple programs, and we have performed on contract types ranging from SBIR/STTR awards to GSA task orders. QIC holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract, so agencies can order directly without a separate competition. Major primes have brought us on to their teams when a program needed expertise they couldn't perform.

CONTRACTING INFORMATION

CAGE

76PJ0

UEI

HWCSRLXMMPP3

NAICS

541715, 541611, 611430

STATUS

SBA-certified EDWOSB

R&D

SBIR/STTR performer since 2016

GSA MAS CONTRACT