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Applying Distributed SAT-based Constrained Optimization to Global Missile…

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Missile Defense Agency 		Award ID:
91591 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
B083-038-0003 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
MDA 08-038 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Reservoir Labs., Inc.
632 Broadway, Suite 803 New York, NY -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: Applying Distributed SAT-based Constrained Optimization to Global Missile Defense Battle Management
Agency / Branch: DOD / MDA
Contract: W9113M-10-C-0089
Award Amount: $499,900.00
 

Abstract:

Emerging weapons systems are making a layered ballistic missile defense a reality. To realize the potential benefits of this diverse capability, it is necessary to extend the ability of assignment and planning algorithms and decision theory. We propose to implement a broadly applicable solution that builds upon the general framework of SAT-based reasoning and our specialized Salt, Alef, and REASON technologies for rendering constrained optimization problems to that model. This effort will build upon our existing distributed SAT-solving technology with well-founded extensions to improve support for (1) allocation optimization in the context of global inventory management, (2) constraint groups typical to battle-management problems, and (3) information reuse across iterative refinement or repair. The resulting technology will preserve our existing capability to reason about the most difficult aspects of battle management including complex availability, coordination, deconfliction, and mutual-exclusion constraints and holistic measures of fitness. The resulting technology will also be fully adapted to operating, if necessary, in a heterogeneous, geographically distributed (net-centric) computing environment. In this effort, we are partnering with Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors (MS2) who has an interest in transitioning our core SAT-based technology into their speculative Command, Control, Battle Management, & Communications (C2BMC) solution portfolio.

Principal Investigator:

James Ezick
Managing Engineer
2127800527
ezick@reservoir.com

Business Contact:

Melanie Peters
Business Manager
2127800527
peters@reservoir.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Reservoir Labs., Inc.
632 Broadway, Suite 803 New York, NY 10012

EIN/Tax ID: 061303098
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No