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Reconfigurable Satellite Planning Tool

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
92597 		Program Year/Program:
2009 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N091-089-0282 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Design_Net Engineering LLC
16080 Table Mountain Parkway Suite 500 Golden, CO -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2009
Title: Reconfigurable Satellite Planning Tool
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N66001-09-M-1025
Award Amount: $69,994.00
 

Abstract:

It takes up to 10 years to design, build and launch a satellite system. The satellite system reflects the 10-year-old (or more) outdated, inflexible technology and mission needs that may no longer be applicable to the tactics and geography of today's evolving conflicts. These new conflicts create the need for mission changes that cannot be accommodated by current systems. Recent advances in technology offers us opportunities to incorporate reconfigurable components (e.g., radiation-hardened FPGAs, Software Reconfigurable Payloads) into spacecraft that allow for the new satellite to change their missions. DNet is proposing to modify its Mission-Satellite Design Tool (MSDT) to address the reconfiguration of satellites based on mission changes. DNet will change the MSDT to a Reconfiguable Satellite Planning Tool (RPST) that will 1) take advantage of the reconfigurability characteristics of deployed satellite and 2) based on mission needs, and determine from an available registry of satellites, the candidate satellite (s) that can fulfill the new mission objectives. The RPST Phase I will demonstrate this ideas with a simple reconfigurable satellite. Phase II will evolve these ideas with multiple satellites with a more advance the tool with an Initial Operational Concept (IOC) version.

Principal Investigator:

Ramon Krosley
Principal Investiagtor
3034620096
rkrosley@design-group.com

Business Contact:

Tom Adams
COO
3034620096
tadams@design-group.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

DESIGN_NET ENGINEERING LLC
10680 Table Mountain Parkway Suite 500 Golden, CO 80403

EIN/Tax ID: 841365475
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No