Improving the Capabilities of Existing Hypersonic Weapons Platforms

The Navy has a need for high-fidelity design-level modeling environment for radar seeker subsystems that captures the relevant operational and environmental constraints of hypersonic flight. The proposer presents an innovative technical approach to seeker modeling that considers the mission-specific challenges for potential seeker concepts. Operable in standalone environment, or a hardware in the loop test bed, the novel approach provides a true "digital twin" that can be used in closed-loop 6DOF architectures for performance evaluation. The proposed Phase I Base Period establishes use cases and develop a simulation architecture that can meet the RF seeker modeling goals identified. Physical models and dependencies will be determined along with fidelity requirements to retire technical design risks.  The proposed Option Period includes the initial design specifications and capabilities description needed to create the prototype. Additional data validity assessments are included in the Option Period, including fundamental research into novel methods to impart and assess the impacts of kinematic constraints on data acquisition and signal processing function.