ANALYSIS, MODELING

& SIMULATION

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About Lone Star

Lone Star was Founded in 2004 in Dallas, Texas

We Actively Support Clients in the Defense and Commercial Enterprise Markets

We Are Pioneers of 4th Generation Business and Technology Decision Support, Modeling

and Simulation

We Have Maintained a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 55% Over the Last 7 Years

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Our Business Strategy

We will be the most sought after partner solving mission critical complex business

and technical problems in our chosen markets

We deliver lasting value to our clients by providing authoritative advice and

solving their most complex and critical business and technical challenges. We do this through the application of industry leading analysis , design and support with a commitment to innovation and advancement in our tools, processes,

data and people.

• We Are Focused on Delivering Results for Our Clients Client interests come first: our own success will follow

• We Make a Difference – The work we do matters

• We Take Pride in Our Professionalism – We have an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence

• Our Ethics are Unwavering – We demand the highest level of honesty and integrity

• We Manage by Fact and Seek Objectivity – We deal with complex, multi-constituent issues, and always seek decision neutrality

• Our People Are Empowered – Personal responsibility, accountability and authority are the cornerstones of success in our organization

• We Treat People with Respect – Clients, employees, partners, shareholders and other constituents are treated with respect and compassion

• We Smartly Grow Our Company – We balance growing our revenue, profitability, and capability to always deliver exceptional results for our clients

Be the Most Desired Firm for Business

and Technical Analysis

Consistently Deliver Value Through

Unique Knowledge & Innovation

Achieve and Maintain Organizational

Excellence

Create Increasing Shareholder Value

Vision

Mission

4 Strategic Pillars

Guiding Principles

Analysis, Modeling & Simulation

• Lone Star’s analysis, modeling and simulation focuses on delivering predictive insight into our client’s most complex and pressing issues. Our predictive results have proven to be extraordinarily accurate and have delivered substantial value and knowledge to our clients. This success is driven by our advanced analytical processes, tools and domain expertise.

• For our clients to truly address future uncertainty they need an modeling capability that enables them to gain a comprehensive understanding of their dynamic environment. Lone Star’s processes and tools have proven capable of creating the dynamic insight necessary for clients to determine their best path forward in a time sensitive manner.

• Lone Star’s modeling and simulation capabilities have enabled our clients to save hundreds of millions of dollars through efficiency gains and new acquisition strategies as well as win billions of dollars in new business by delivering accurate “price-to-win” estimates. In addition to these specific benefits, Lone Star has conducted 100’s of successful engagements that have addressed virtually every business and technical requirement a client may have.

Analysis, Modeling &Simulation Solutions

Solution Area Example OfferingsStrategy, Planning &

Policy:Accurate insight into the impact of a new strategic or tactical mandate or how a policy may impact your organization or program

Finance and Risk Operations &

Processes:

True quantification of the financial impact and degree of risk associated with actions or events for organizations and programs

Acquisition & Procurement:

Complete awareness of the impact of contracting approach and performance tradeoffs including elements such as “should cost”, “could cost”, system performance, and other parameters

Program Development & Execution:

Conscience understanding of the true “Price-to-Win”, critical competitive performance thresholds, strategic execution elements and other operational choices

Technology & Product Lifecycle Support:

Objective presentation of expected business and technical results and risks driven by advanced requirements based market simulations, six degree of freedom (6DOF) models, and other techniques

Marketing & Business Development:

Critical awareness of essential market, segment and customer knowledge through competitive influenced uptake simulations, probability-of-win analysis and other competitive insight

Mergers & Acquisitions:

Objective competitive valuations based on individual bidding participants including “price of indifference” per bidder as well as other market and target analysis

Lone Star’s Market Leading Modeling and Simulation Capability Deliver The Right Answer to Our Client’s Most Difficult Business

and Technical Questions

Analysis, Modeling &Simulation Capabilities

Lone Star Delivers the Most Advanced Predictive Capabilities Available, Providing Our Clients “Peace of Mind”

AnalysisModeling

& Simulation

Business

Technical

• Complex Decisions • Market Dynamics• Program Performance• Process & Business System

Optimization• Enterprise & Program Risk• Comprehensive Business

Cases• Financial Performance• Predictive Portfolio

Performance

• Technical Roadmap Evaluation

• Intellectual Property Review• Systems Architecture

Review• Black Team Review• Design Audit• Lifecycle Cost Estimation• Troubleshooting

• Technical Strategy Performance Tradeoff

• System Performance• Technical Readiness Level

(TRL)• Cost/Performance Tradeoff• Program Development &

Specification Risk• Six Degree of Freedom

(6DOF)

• Strategic Analysis• Business Architecture• Market Analysis• Competitive Analysis• Environmental Scans• Portfolio Analysis• Feasibility Studies• Opportunity Analysis• Business Cases Analysis• Risk Assessment

Analysis, Modeling &Simulation Process

Assess Clients

Situation

Establish the “Big

Questions” to be

Answered

Deconstruct “Big

Questions” to “Little

Questions”

Determine Mathematical Relationship of Elements

Obtain the Objective

Measures of “Little

Questions

Model and Data

Validation

Execute Primary and “What If” Scenarios

Verify / Correlate Results

ReportResults

Lone Star’s Analysis, Modeling and Simulation Process is Based on 100’s of

Successful Client Engagements

Defining Organizational

& Analytical Complexity

Defines the Clients Desired Results

Creates Element Framework for

High Confidence Answers

Ensures Accurate

Influences and Impacts

Sanity Check the Results

Enables Clear Understanding

of the Issue and its Nuance

Ensures Completeness

& Accuracy

Probable Ranges of

Data Address Uncertainty

Deliver High Confidence Information

and Conclusions

Research & Data

Collection Support

Our Internal Tools

TruNavigatorTM StraTableTM OpCapTM IRISTM MarketMap

ComplexMultivariate

AnalysisEnvironment

Strategy & AoAAnalysis

Environment

Opportunity vs.CapabilityMapping

Environment

Enterprise RiskAnalysis

Environment

Market MigrationMapping

Environment

Lone Star Has Developed a Unique Set of Tools, Optimized for Our Processes and the Needs of

Our Clients

Additional Tools

Lone Star is Constantly Seeking Market Available Tools that Can Add Value for Our Clients

Open Source Community

An Interactive Software Environment that Enables the Execution of Computationally Intensive Tasks Faster than Traditional Programming

A Software Environment for Multi-Domain Simulation and Model-Based Design for Dynamic and Embedded Systems

An Integrated Development Environment that Ensures Quality Code Throughout the Entire Application Lifecycle, from Design to Deployment

An Integrated Environment for Accessing, Configuring, Managing, Administering, and Developing All Components of SQL Server

A Requirements Management Application for Systems and Advanced Information Technology Applications

A Platform Independent, Distributed Source Control Management Tool for Advanced Version Control

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Contact Information

HQ Address……..Lone Star 4555 Excel

Parkway Suite 500 Addison, TX 75001

Main #......……….(972) 690-9494Web Address…..www.Lone-Star.com

Matthew BowersVice President of Business

Development

Office. (214) 440-3184Mobile. (214) 405-2700

E-mail. mbowers@lone-star.com