Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need

a.i. solutions will use its TRL-9 FreeFlyer® COTS product to generate a new capability called ObsSIM. ObsSIM will simulate the ground and space-based sensors of the US Space Surveillance Network (SSN) and produce physics-based, simulated space surveillance sensor observations of Resident Satellite Objects (RSOs) performing potentially hostile on-orbit operations. Modeled physical sensor attributes will include solar lighting constraints, range constraints, sensor slew rates and sensor dwell times. ObsSIM will also account for RSO tasking categories and suffixes when generating simulated observations so they reflect realistic collection capabilities of the SSN. ObsSIM will model RSOs performing maneuvers and other on-orbit events. ObsSIM data will be published in real time to SMC/SYG’s Unified Data Library (UDL) where government and commercial customers can subscribe to the data and use it to enable realistic testing, training, and exercise scenarios. ObsSIM will use a.i. solutions’ FreeFlyer® commercial off the shelf software application for flight dynamics modeling and simulation. FreeFlyer is a TRL-9 flight dynamics tool used widely in satellite mission analysis, design, and operations by civil, military, and commercial customers. FreeFlyer has been used to support over 225 space missions for Air Force, NASA, and commercial customers.