Space & C5ISR Capabilities

The Space domain encompasses the planning, integration, assessment, and implementation of global space operations to deliver space capabilities to the DoD and the Nation. C5ISR (Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Combat systems [C5], Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance [ISR]) represents the networks and infrastructure to support the movement of data between platforms and nodes to enable effective military operations. Space mission areas of Situational Awareness and Ballistic Missile Defense include the software, processing architecture, algorithms and EOIR sensor knowledge to characterize and track objects in space. Space & C5ISR includes the system architectures, interfaces and integration requirements, data flows, and modeling ability for effective deployment of capabilities and operations to the warfighter.

FTI’s Space & C5ISR Capabilities: FTI’s Space & C5ISR is focused on capabilities to ensure the DoD can conduct operations in, from, and to space. FTI’s space portfolio includes systems engineering, space acquisitions, specialty engineering, digital engineering/ecosystem, DevSecOps, testing, and integration of space communications services support for improved collaboration and informed decision making. Additionally, FTI has developed purpose-built software solutions to help with sensor calibration, sensor modeling and simulation and EO/IR analysis and exploitation.

The Problem

As systems continue to evolve and grow in complexity, challenges with data management, analysis, visualization and exploitation are becoming more prevalent. This environment creates barriers that can significantly impact mission performance and execution. Examples include – Systems being far too complex, learning curve is too high impacting utilization, lack of continuity across systems makes it deriving insights difficult, disparate systems make it challenging to translate problems to solutions via data, tough to identify “good” and the “right” data for analysis and significant challenges in discovering data that is relevant and exploiting it effectively.

The Solution

Matching Capabilities to Solutions to deliver “purpose built” solutions. FTI has invested heavily in identifying opportunities to extend our technology and tightly couple it with commercial technology to create discriminating solutions to deliver to our customers. FTI has had an opportunity to work with our customers to gain insights into some of the most significant challenges they are faced with. This insight has allowed us to invest in strategic areas in enhance and expand our offerings in the space domain. This includes advanced analytics (forensic, real-time and predictive), data processing and transformation, data discovery and exploitation as well as enhanced visualizations which provide powerful tools for diving into data and interacting dynamically with it.

Benefits

Experience Improvements

Reduce the complexity of the ecosystem
Curate data and analysis through customized dashboards and reports
Aggregate data for a more robust analysis
Highly extensible for tool addition

Process Improvements

Correlate Data from all systems
Identify trends and patterns (Quality, Schedule, Capacity)
Look at the Qualitative as well as Quantitative
Find outliers and anomalies
Capture Data from developers
Ingest Data from infrastructure
Import Data from Secondary Tools
Extract Data from Test Reports
Validate Quality & Integrity
Normalize the data for analysis

Examples of FTI Core Space & C5ISR Tasking:

DevSecOps and Space System Integration:
Provide DevSecOps, testing, cybersecurity, and systems engineering support to SMC’s Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) program and horizontal integration efforts to integrate stovepipes, modernize ground systems, and ensure resiliency.
Systems Engineering and Specialty Engineering Support:
Deliver Space System Engineering; DoD and Space Acquisition SMEs; System of Systems Integration (Launch, Satellite, Subsystems, Payload); Mission Assurance; Digital Engineering & Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE); Additive Manufacturing; Architecture: DoD and Open Systems; Specification and Standards; Test and Evaluation; Operational Transition; and Mission Management & Integration products and services supporting the Portfolio Architect and Atlas Corps organizations. The variety of efforts/projects support the Government customer’s decision-making processes.
Space Situational Awareness and Ballistic Missile Defense:
Provide software, electro-optical infrared (EOIR) modeling and simulation, algorithm development and analysis to support key EOIR space missions.

Cross Market, Horizontal Solutions:

System of Systems (SoS) Integration
DevSecOps and Agile Transformation
Integrated Test and Evaluation
Digital Engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering
Architecture Design and Development

References:

DoD IG. Evaluation of the United States Air Force Enterprise Ground Services. 25 March 2020. https://media.defense.gov/2020/Mar/27/2002270833/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2020-074_REDACTED.PDF

Gen Raymond’s Mandatory EGS Use memo (3 August 2018). https://confluence.il4.dso.mil/display/EGS/Mission+Partner+Landing+Page?preview=/28981995/28982163/U%20EGS%20Mandatory%20Use%20-%20Signed%20Gen%20Raymond%20-%2020180803.pdf

Lal, B. et al. (2018). Global Trends in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Traffic Management (STM). Institute for Defense Analyses Document D-9074. https://www.ida.org/-/media/feature/publications/g/gl/global-trends-in-space-situational-awareness-ssa-and-space-traffic-management-stm/d-9074.ashx

For more information on FTI and our specialty capabilities please refer to FTI’s Capabilities Overview Brochure.

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Space & C5ISR Capabilities

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