Next Generation Toolsets for Weapons Separation Evaluations to Enable Enhanced Strike Capabilities

Corvid Technologies proposes to provide Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s (NAWCAD) a replacement to their NAVSEP FORTRAN toolset, which will reduce programmatic risks by reducing per-analysis manpower requirements and allow for more rapid and complex autopilot integration. The proposed approach is to leverage significant pre-existing knowledge and capabilities to develop a highly parallelized OS independent end-to-end framework leveraging Corvid’s in-house six degree of freedom (6DoF) solver VIDOF and modern coding paradigms and languages to model, process, and visualize arbitrary store separation events. The Phase I effort will consist of defining NAWCAD’s current metrics, data formats, and procedures, developing and benchmarking an efficient miss distance calculator, evaluating available visualization approaches, and synthesizing the resulting information into a Phase II prototype plan. In the Phase I Option, Corvid will develop code to support IO between the various systems, begin graphical user interface (GUI) development, and evaluate the potential to use machine learning as an interpolation scheme for the numerous datasets. Corvid will leverage experience in development of a pre-existing in-house 6DoF solver, which is routinely integrated with modern autopilot routines that is designed for probabilistic (Monte Carlo) analysis, a parallelized “lights-out factory” computational fluid dynamics (CFD) database for end-to-end generation, execution, and management in Python with a GUI, which uses a modular approach to external tools for meshing, solver integration, and data processing, as well as significant past experience relating to simulation and modeling of various payload and component deployment dynamic problems.