Assessing and Projecting Situations and Impacts in Space (APSIS)

The primary objective is to provide a prototype system for enhancing space situational awareness (SSA) through the ability to project and visualize threats to blue space assets, and assess the impact of those threats to the assets and the missions they support. The Assessing and Projecting Situations In Space (APSIS) program leverages a domain agnostic TRL 6 capability for reducing multi-INT data to perform situation identification and threat assessment. APSIS extends this framework by developing models for projecting states and threats within the space domain. The principal benefit of APSIS is the ability to predict threats left of the event, which allows for proactive mitigation strategies for protecting vital space assets. Phase II will implement the designs developed during Phase I. This includes integration with space data sources to ingest data according to an ontology-backed semantic model, development of a multi-faceted threat plausibility analysis, the development of space target folders which describe potential threats and the development of several innovative, multi-dimensional user interfaces to facilitate data and information analysis.