Low-Cost Decoy

IS4S proposes to build a system model (SysML) in Cameo for a Low-Cost Decoy (LCD) compatible with the BRU-61 four-place carriage system.  The motivation and focus of this phase II SBIR is squarely on two of Secretary Kendall’s Operational Imperatives: 3. Defining the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) System-of-Systems; “NGAD must be more than just the next crewed fighter jet. It’s a program that will include a crewed platform teamed with much less expensive autonomous un-crewed combat aircraft, employing a distributed, tailorable mix of sensors, weapons, and other mission equipment operating as a team or formation,” he said. 6. Defining the B-21 Long Range Strike Family-of-Systems “We’re looking for systems that cost nominally on the order of at least half as much as the manned systems that we're talking about for both NGAD and for B-21” while adding capability, he said. “ … They could deliver a range of sensors, other mission payloads, and weapons, or other mission equipment and they can also be attritable or even sacrificed if doing so conferred a major operational advantage – something we would never do with a crewed platform.” This project will deliver a government-owned LCD model based on a well-developed conceptual flight vehicle plus an EMD program plan including a WBS, schedule, cost ROM and risks.  Subsystem trade studies will be executed to define optimal low size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) components to support detailed electromechanical and logical interface definition in the model.  Those trade studies will be documented in the model yielding not only component recommendations, but also down-select decision analysis tools that can be utilized throughout the development process.