Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N181-024

Description

To address the Navy’s need for a Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE)-compliant Countermeasure Dispenser System (CMDS) Operational Flight Program (OFP), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new CMDS FACE-compliant Interoperable Reusable Software (CFIRS). CFIRS is based on a novel implementation of an adaptation layer that provides an interface between the CMDS native code to the underlying computing hardware environment. As a result, the current hardware-specific, tightly-coupled CMDS OFP becomes FACE-compliant and thus portable to a variety of hardware platforms irrespective of its hardware type, operating system (OS), or input/output (IO) interfaces. Due to this, the code can be reused in a variety of different platforms with FACE-computing environments without major development requirements thus reducing redevelopment costs. This, in addition to POC’s infrastructure and experience in developing FACE-compliant military avionics, will be leveraged in the CFIRS development to provide POC a head start in transitioning CFIRS to the Navy. In Phase I, POC will demonstrate the feasibility of CFIRS though system analysis and will develop limited capability software reaching technology readiness level (TRL)-3/-4. In Phase II, POC plans to develop a fully functional prototype that will reach TRL-5/-6 and be ready for initial tests at Navy facilities.