Radiance Technologies to refine faster-than-real-time simulation and modeling for evolving military CONOPS
ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are asking Radiance Technologies Inc. in Huntsville, Ala., to continue it work to develop a faster-than-real-time system to enable senior military commanders to practice developing concepts of operations (CONOPS), composing force structures, allocating resources, and planning for technology insertion.
Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., announced a $49.3 million contract to Reliance Technologies in late November for the fourth phase of the Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation and Modeling (SAFE-SiM) program.
Modeling and simulation
The SAFE-SiM modeling and simulation architecture should enable military commanders to conduct theater-wide, multi-domain, mission-level modeling and simulation, from seafloor to space, including cyber and electromagnetic spectrum capabilities.
This contract asks Radiance to continue its phase-three SAFE SiM research, which is critical to meeting the DARPA,s joint all domain theater-wide analysis goals, DARPA officials say. Radiance won a $10.1 million contract SAFE-SiM contract in 2020, joining Cole Engineering Services Inc. in Orlando, Fla., on the project.
Over the past few decades, projecting military power has relied on complex capabilities to achieve results that separate weapon systems or segments of military power cannot handle.
U.S. military and intelligence modeling, furthermore, cannot provide the necessary support. Existing simulation and modeling typically is limited to specific mission areas, and are not well suited for interactions across the cyber, space, air, ground, and sea domains. Creating mission-level scenarios, moreover, is time consuming and requires specialized training.
Intuitive interface
The SAFE-SiM project is creating an intuitive modeling and simulation user interface for rapid scenario construction, advanced visualization capabilities, and analytical tools that enable broad analysis of simulated data for new and evolving CONOPS.
Radiance Technologies is developing theater-wide, multi-domain, mission level modeling; user interface; analytic and visual tools; and hardware and software solutions with multi-level security.
Related: Deployable simulation and training
These information security tools should enable the system to ingest modeling and simulation data up to and including SECRET, TOP SECRET, SCI, and Special Access (SAP) classification levels through external network connections, rapid reconfigure the classification level of the modeling and simulation environment, and dynamically tailor analytical results several kinds of end users.
On this contract, Radiance will do its SAFE-SiM work Huntsville, Ala.; Dayton, Ohio; Rome, N.Y.; Basking Ridge, N.J.; and Albuquerque, N.M., and should be finished by November 2026.
For more information contact Radiance Technologies online at www.radiancetech.com, or DARPA at www.darpa.mil.
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