TAU TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: SDA224-001
TAU TECHNOLOGIES LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Defense funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- At $1,810,887, this is a large obligation for typical SBIR Phase sizing — worth reviewing for scope breadth and teaming opportunity.
- Topic code SDA224-001 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,810,887
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- SDA224-001
- Solicitation
- 22.4
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NM
- Period
- 2022-09-16 → 2024-09-15
Description
Tau Technologies will deliver to the Space Development Agency Integrated Architecture Technology Testbed (IATT), whose benefit will be the ability to confidently and accurately result in the generation of, for each National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) element, cost, schedule and performance acquisition requirements. This capability to enable SDA to confidently perform comparative analysis, trade space development, and scenario scoring (link budgets, coverage, constellation design, network routing, optimization, etc.). Tau’s proposes NEXt generation Unified Simulation Suite (NEXUSS) representing an end-to-end Modeling Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Integrated Architecture Technology Testbed (IATT). NEXUSS is a simulation concept that connects diverse Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) simulation tools to provide a flexible and extensible state-of-the-art architecture modeling capability enabling rapid evaluations of SDA Architectures. NEXUSS provides a Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) simulation leveraging industry standards like System Modeling Language (SysML) and Cameo Systems Modeling tools. GOTS and COTS tools form the backbone of NEXUSS. Tau leverages past GOTS Advanced Framework for Simulation Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) development maps to model the NDSA layers. An IATT prototype has been tried out in two analyses: a comparative analysis and a scenario scoring analysis. The comparative analysis explored how well constellations with varying parameters viewed specific combinations of ground stations. A 9-task schedule is proposed, which incrementally builds up over two years a software suite that will provide (a) manual or automatic optimization, (b) on standalone or distributed environments, (c) of Performance, Cost, and Schedule metrics at (d) the UNCLASS and TS/SCI levels for (e) all 7 NDSA layers.