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Satellite Threat and Environmental Effects Assessments for Defensive Counterspace

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9453-07-M-0020
Agency Tracking Number: F063-007-0108
Amount: $99,998.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF063-007
Solicitation Number: 2006.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-12-15
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-12-14
Small Business Information
550 Paiea Street , Suite #236 Suite #236
Honolulu, HI 96819
United States
DUNS: 176527471
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes
Principal Investigator
 Gary Haith
 Computer Scientist
 (303) 328-1245
 ghaith@referentia.com
Business Contact
 Nelson Kanemoto
Title: CEO
Phone: (808) 423-1900
Email: kane@referentia.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Satellites and other spacecraft are a key asset and critical vulnerability in our communications, surveillance and defense infrastructure. Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Defensive Counterspace (DCS) efforts are aimed at leveraging the massive amounts of data gathered from ground, air and space based sensors to monitor and ideally protect these assets. While there has been much work on data fusion in this area, the efforts to date have not yielded estimates of impact and cost of a given situation or suggested courses of action (level 3 data fusion). This gap is largely due to an absence of historical data relevant to hostile threat scenarios and other anomalous conditions that require countermeasures to ensure continued satellite functioning. The proposed technology leverages Automatic Red Teaming (ART) agent based simulation techniques to generate realistic data relevant to likely threat scenarios – including estimated impact and course of action evaluations. This simulated data can then be analyzed (akin to lower level data fusion approaches) in order to support automatic detection, categorization, and countermeasure suggestion for future satellite data.

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