Accelerating Hypersonics Development with Sedaro Digital Twins

The US has a vital national interest to rapidly develop, test, and deploy next-generation hypersonic platforms as near-peer adversaries are already fielding capabilities that outstrip our own. ōIt was a rude awakening for the Defense Department and Intelligence Community, something that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said was ōvery closeö to a ōSputnik momentö for a new era of the global arms race. The US has scrambled to catch up ever since.ö reported Foreign Policy on 27 October 2022 after China conducted hypersonic tests with technology the US was not aware of. To regain the USÆ strategic advantage over its near-peer competitors, adoption of advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) capabilities are needed to accelerate development and fielding of bleeding edge hypersonic platforms. ĀCurrent USAF tools are siloed and labor intensive, requiring investment to advance digital twin platforms that can integrate exceptionally complex subsystems (e.g., controls, sensing, actuation, and propulsion), rapidly explore the trade space, and enable mission utility assessments.Ā Sedaro Corporation (Sedaro) is a digital twin software company focused on leveraging modern software frameworks and cloud computing to deliver a leap forward in the evolution of system simulation tools. Sedaro is currently delivering this leap forward to the USSF, Space Development Agency (SDA), NASA and commercial customers with the Sedaro platform, a TRL-9 simulation and virtualization platform that is more scalable, collaborative, and interoperable than competitive products. As such, Sedaro seeks to enhance the USAFÆs digital engineering toolset by using our core technology as the building block to develop Sedaro Hypersonic. The Sedaro Hypersonic feature set will enable integration of digital twins with the USAFÆs tech stack for more responsive and effective procurement, planning, testing, and operations for hypersonic vehicles. In this Phase I, Sedaro will partner with MIT Lincoln Laboratory to assess the feasibility of (1) leveraging Sedaro's underlying software technologies to support hypersonic vehicle digital twins in the the Sedaro digital twin platform and (2) expediting development and fielding of hypersonics for the USAF using this new technology. In doing so, Sedaro will perform customer discovery efforts with AFRLÆs Aerospace Systems Directorate and AFLCMCÆs Armament Directorate to gain a better understanding of customer and end-user requirements. This Phase I effort will establish the design and development baseline of the Sedaro Hypersonic digital twin capability that Sedaro will deliver as the Phase II prototype. Ā