Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N152-096

Description

To address the Navys need for miniaturized, fault-tolerant, decentralized mission processing, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop the new Joint Avionics Reconfigurable Virtual Information System (JARVIS). JARVIS incorporates POC-developed components and existing commercial/modified off-the-shelf components synthesized to form an innovative miniaturized system construct. JARVIS offers superior fault tolerance and decentralizes aircraft mission processing to exceed the Navy requirements. In its operational state, JARVIS is envisioned as decentralizing mission data processing across several fully capable distributed processing nodes, with reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP), increased interface speeds, and lower costs, compared to current monolithic systems. In Phase I, POC will demonstrate the feasibility of a miniaturized, virtually and physically reconfigurable system that will automatically maintain full situational awareness even when over 50% of the processing nodes fail (technology readiness level (TRL)-4). In Phase II, JARVIS will be further developed based upon the results of the Phase I study, to include demonstrating a prototype aircraft mission processing system that includes FACE and MOSA conformance (TRL-5) and is capable of being certified for flight. The focus of Phase III will be on the development of a production-representative JARVIS for an AH-1Z aircraft, using existing software (TRL-7).