Simulation and Visualization

MOTISS™

Measure of Total Integrated System Survivability

MOTISS™ integrates weapons effects and recovery analysis within a single package to assist in survivability design, design evaluation, requirements assessment, and resource allocation. MOTISS is based on Alion Science and Technology’s years of expert survivability engineering experience and analyses performed for our US and foreign customers.

MOTISS is Alion’s answer to government and industry’s need for a rapid and effective survivability evaluation tool.

MOTISS Enables

• Single-point and root-cause of failure determination
• First order structural and network system evaluations
• Unbiased survivability design and option comparisons
• Integrated vulnerability and recoverability evaluations
• Progressive fire, flooding and threat damage analyses
• Ballistic, jet, fragment and blast damage analyses       

MOTISS – The Science of Survivability™

MOTISS is both a process and a program. It is a process by which a system of systems (such as a naval or commercial ship, a building or an armored vehicle) overall survivability is assessed probabilistically in the event of one or more threats.

MOTISS uses first principle physics coupled with empirical data and tests to provide a rapid first order solution to an event thousands of times, with each test randomly varying the threat parameters and hit location, in order to capture the chaotic nature of the random unknowns. This provides the ability to determine probabilistically, what would, will, or did happen in a similar real world threat event.

MOTISS allows the system designer, engineer or operator to locate and rank weaknesses quickly in order to allow for corrective action before those weaknesses are exploited in a real world scenario.

MOTISS runs on any operating system which supports a GNU GCC 3.4.4 compiler (e.g., Windows, Linux, SuSE).