Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: MDA15-012

Description

To address Missile Defense Agencys (MDA) need for new approaches to perform inline threat generation (ITG) in a constructive digital simulation, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop an innovative Large-scale Inline Validation-Embedded Threat Adaptation and Generation (LIVETAG) system, based on physics-based adaptation of threat models for inline threat data generation, heuristic automation of offline threat data validation process to ensure credibility of generated threat data, and predictive scheduler for tightly interweaving threat data generation processes to maximize the use of computing resources in real-time execution. The innovations in unified threat data generation and validation scheme and predictive scheduler enable LIVETAG to provide real-time generated, detailed, high fidelity, high resolution threat data packages to constructive digital simulations during the initialization and execution of a simulation event, and maintain the credibility of threat data. In Phase I, POC will demonstrate the feasibility of LIVETAG by developing its simulation conceptual model, top-level architecture, concept of operations (CONOPS) and verification and validation approaches for ITG, and a Phase I prototype system for evaluation. In Phase II, POC plans to mature Phase I prototype into a working prototype for performance assessment of missile defense simulations.