Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: MDA13-013

Description

To address the need to more accurately determine solar and cosmic ray environments for missile defense applications, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of a new Advanced Modeling and Simulation Tool for Determining the Radiation Environments Throughout Suborbital Missile Trajectories (ASTRAEUS).In Phase I, POC developed the ASTRAEUS software architecture and constituent models, and an alpha version of the ASTRAEUS software prototype which can compute the missiles space radiation environment at any point throughout the time of flight (from ground to >2000 km altitude in less than one second (in high-speed mode) and for an entire suborbital trajectory in about 10 s.In Phase II, POC will develop a working, limited distribution version of ASTRAEUS to be peer-reviewed.Phase II will also focus on verification of the ASTRAEUS space environment models and the updated beta version software.Throughout Phase II, POC will update the ASTRAEUS software development plan, develop a plan for integrating ASTRAEUS into missile defense mission and operations, and lay out a commercialization plan to extend ASTRAEUS to civilian markets.Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8169 (20 March 15)