STILMAN ADVANCED STRATEGIES, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: MDA16-006

Description

To enhance Operational Test (OT) fidelity, increase automation, and shorten the testing process, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) seeks innovative research efforts to develop scenario generation technologies. STILMAN proposes to conduct novel research to develop a highly automated and ‘composable’ scenario generation toolset. Currently, in the distributed system of systems Operational Testing enterprise, high impact opportunities exist to apply scenario composition tools, develop a common data repository, and to replace numerous manual processes with automated, machine readable data exchanges between test participants. By integrating STILMAN’s unique Linguistic Geometry (LG) based technology with a shared data repository, a lightweight “front end” scenario generation toolset can be developed to increase automation within the test process. Initial research will focus on automated scenario composition and the early simulation of key test conditions to decrease test preparation timelines and enable the test stakeholders to confirm that the analysis goals, system performance models, criteria data, data repositories and inter-system messaging are sufficient to achieve the desired test fidelity. Numerous commercial testing enterprises in the automotive, aviation, and robotics industries could benefit from this design approach and the test tool framework. Approved for Public Release | 18-MDA-9522 (23 Feb 18)