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Not Available In this Phase I proposal, we present a plan for the improvement, development, and integration of accurate signature modeling into existing Modeling & Simulation (M&S) tools that support space-based sensors. While existing M&S tools can presently model complex scenarios, multiple sensors and targets, accurate sensor motion, and targets with articulation, they do not necessarily incorporate high fidelity, accurate, wideband monostatic and bistatic signatures in the RF, IR, and spectral regions. Our plan includes the use, extension, and fixing of signature modeling approaches that have been developed, but whose performance levels need improvement. Our emphasis is on accuracy of the signature data, with particular attention to data compression techniques for monostatic and bistatic data sets. The entire approach pivots on the interplay of target tack information, which can be correlated to dynamic articulation (position of control surfaces, vector thrust geometry, etc.) to produce -via model-based methods - highly accurate time-varying signature data. This plan paves the way for a new set of tools that allow accurate, detailed modeling of targeting issues for space-based sensors, directly address data fusion, allow optimization of intelligence collection scenarios, provide cost reduction by replacing most testing with credible M&S, and provide EW effectiveness assessments.