Technologies to Improve Software Acquisition/Development Process

The objective of this SBIR proposal is for Analytical Services, Inc. (ASI) to develop design requirements for a client/server, Windows-based, database catalog (potentially, a Web-based distributed system) to track Radiation Hardening technologies and components of interest to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). This Radiation Hardening Catalog (RHC) will initially be used to store and track radiation hardening materials and mission planning data. Future RHC capabilities may include storing Radiation Hardening modeling information and using the RHC as part of a multi-disciplinary solution for trade space analyses. The RHC will afford extensive reuse of legacy data integrated with knowledge-based rules. The RHC component and system level radiation hardened electronics data will focus on those materials that have been developed by commercial vendors who influence or offer potential leverage opportunities for military application.