The objective is to design, build, and test the space awareness and response system (SARS) to support the Space Situation Awareness and Defensive Counter Space missions. SARS needs to support the warfighter in the timely performance of the following 8 tasks: 1. detect space system attacks and… More

The DF&NN Team has the unique combination of technology and experience to develop an affordable automated decision-support-system that will improve the operator situation awareness and response decision making since it is the same Team that is delivering the JSpOC real-time SSA capability under… More

The problem is to provide automated space situational awareness (SSA) and mission impact assessment (i.e., L2/3 fusion) to the JSpOC sufficient to their Defensive Counter Space (DCS) response objectives and resource coordination (i.e., L2/3 management).Under this proposed Phase II effort the low… More

The objective of this effort is to tightly couple automated SSA assessment and DCS response decision aids to provide prioritized response alternatives to assist space operators to manage competing objectives, coordinate responses, and rapidly prioritize response alternatives within dynamic… More

The objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing an onboard autonomous mission manager for space superiority and responsive space. Experts in data fusion, autonomous flight software, and maneuver planning will define the architecture for a modular, re-usable mission manager for Defensive… More

Distributed satellite resource management promises improved access to mission-critical satellite information. A satellite mission re-planning system is needed to utilize predicted system outages and re-plan to meet the ongoing spaceborne asset missions. The DF&NN team will acquire or generate set of… More

The DF&NN team will integrate Space Situational Awareness (SSA) & Defensive Space Control (DSC) R&D based upon the DF&NN Dual Node Network DF&RM technical architecture. The DF&NN subcontractor Modern Technology Solutions Inc (MTSI) brings extensive operations experience to define relevant needs. We… More

On-orbit assets are essential for current and future mission success; however there are numerous types of attack that threaten their safety. To protect these assets and ensure their continued operation, these threats must be detected as quickly as possible so that appropriate responses can be… More

This effort will provide automated GPS outage and degradation characterization (e.g., environment or man-made) tools based upon GPS satellite to site Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) data, Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) scintillation cloud predictions, and Signals… More

The DF & NN team is composed of Christopher Bowman, Charles Morefield, Alan Steinberg, and Ed Waltz. We will develop methods to model and characterize the quality of data that has been"re-purposed"for fusion applications. We will develop algorithms useful to High-Level Information… More

ABSTRACT: The DF & NN baseline Dual Node Network (DNN) Data Fusion & Resource Management (DF & RM) technical architecture will be compared and extended. The multi-source DF & RM problem functional decomposition provided by DNN will be the framework for rigorous problem-to-solution… More

ABSTRACT: To support emerging requirements for continuous and automated Space Situational Awareness (SSA), there must be an understanding of the root causes of anomalies, as this directly affects courses of action. To further SSA, one must accurately attribute anomalies to environment versus… More

ABSTRACT: To support the JSpOC Mission System, AFRL needs to develop and test intelligent process management software that integrates diverse sets of automated distributed data fusion tools for multi-source correlated space superiority events. These tools need to be assessed during their use and… More