Impact Assessment for Defensive Counterspace (IA4DCS)

A key element to supporting Space Situation Awareness (SSA) and Defensive Counterspace (DCS) operations is to develop capabilities that address the characterization and the impact assessment that attacks and environmental effects have on our military space infrastructure. The Space Vehicles directorate of the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL/VS) has funded several programs in recent years studying the application of data fusion theory to automated abnormality and threat detection and characterization. As a member of the AFRL/VS Data Fusion Research Team, Charles River Analytics is currently working on Situation Assessment for Defensive Counterspace (SA4DCS), a suite of relationship and situation assessment algorithms within a large-scale, multi-level JSpOC Space Awareness and Response System (JSARS). In order to estimate and predict the implications of the assessed relationship and situational states generated by SA4DCS, we propose to develop an Impact Assessment System for Defensive Counterspace (IA4DCS). IA4DCS aims to extend current research and development efforts within AFRL/VS’s SARS to include data fusion impact assessment processing in order to achieve the necessary discrimination and mission impact and appropriate response generation to man-made events, space weather occurrences, and satellite abnormalities.