TAU TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: AF19A-T007

Description

Efficient design, build, and test of an HEL system leverages modeling and simulation (M&S) to reduce cost and increase robustness. Designers use models to explore parameter variations and to estimate performance in conditions which cannot be tested due to physical or financial constraints. This provides significant savings in cost and time. Because live testing is so expensive, it is best used as validation at the end of the design cycle to prove the expected performance and not in the middle of the design as a way to evaluate possible design choices. Systems designed to detect, track and engage an incoming threat can require a large footprint of threat article, sensor networks, command and control, security, facility, etc., just to test. Simulating the full deployment environment provides another layer of integration testing which saves significant money and time.