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Explosive Safety Site Planning, Reimagined

Site planning, rebuilt for the people who do the work.

QDArc is a modern, web-native explosive safety site planning environment — built from the regulations, by someone who used the legacy tools.

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What's Different

The tools haven't kept up. QDArc is the response.

Where things stand

  • ✕ Desktop-bound, single-user software
  • ✕ Tied to commercial GIS licenses most installations can't afford
  • ✕ Update cycles measured in years
  • ✕ Documentation in someone's training binder
  • ✕ Regulatory traceability tracked by hand, if at all

What QDArc brings

  • ✓ Web-native, multi-user, accessible from any modern browser
  • ✓ No commercial GIS license required
  • ✓ Continuous improvement, deployed continuously
  • ✓ Documentation generated from the same source as the code
  • ✓ Every safety-critical requirement traces to a public regulation paragraph automatically

Built On

Three foundations underneath everything QDArc does.

Every requirement, traced.

Every safety-critical requirement in QDArc traces to a specific paragraph in DESR 6055.09, DESR 6055.09_DAFMAN 91-201, NATO AASTP-1, or an applicable DDESB Technical Paper. Audit trail by design, not as an afterthought.

HQ Building
Inhabited Building Distance
| Source DESR 6055.09 V3.E3.T17
| HD 1.1 K40 = 1,250 ft
| Test  IBD_HD11_K40 ✓

Software safety, treated like the rest of safety.

Every part of QDArc is rated for how dangerous a software bug there could be — the same kind of thinking you apply to risk assessments in the field, applied to the code itself. Higher-risk functions get more rigorous testing, review, and documented evidence that they work correctly. The discipline reviewers expect on safety-critical software, applied here.

Built for the modern environment.

Multi-user collaboration. Browser-based access from any modern device. No commercial GIS license required. Deploy to infrastructure you control, or infrastructure we host.

Built For

Who QDArc is for.

Installation Safety Planners

A faster path from data to a defensible site plan.

Contractors

Analysis work without justifying enterprise GIS licensing for every project.

Coalition Partners

A tool aligned to NATO AASTP-1 for partners working under NATO frameworks.

Training Environments

A real tool for students, not a watered-down imitation.

Everyone Else

If you've looked at the current options and thought "this could be better" — this is for you.

Foundations

Built on the regulations. All of them. In the open.

QDArc implements the requirements of the public regulatory frameworks that govern explosive safety siting. No proprietary lookups, no black-box logic, no "trust us." Every value, every threshold, every formula traces to a published authority you can read for yourself.

DESR 6055.09
Defense Explosives Safety Regulation, Edition 1, Change 2
DESR 6055.09_DAFMAN 91-201
Department of the Air Force supplement to DESR 6055.09
NATO AASTP-1
NATO Guidelines for the Storage of Military Ammunition and Explosives
MIL-STD-882E w/Change 1
DoD Standard Practice: System Safety
DDESB Technical Papers
TP-15, TP-21, TP-23, and TP-26

Behind QDArc

Built by someone who used the legacy tools for a decade.

QDArc is founded and led by a retired United States Air Force Weapons Safety Manager with over a decade in operational explosive safety, most recently serving at the major command headquarters level.

The kind of background where you spend years using the existing tools, see exactly where they fail the people doing the work, and decide to build something better.

QDArc is the result.

10+
Years operational experience
MAJCOM HQ
Level of last assignment
Explosive Safety Siting
Domain specialization

Working in explosive safety siting?

Want to talk about where QDArc is going — or where it should go?

Get in touch

contact@qdarc.com