IDEAS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS

AFCEA Luncheon

23 Jan 2013

Col Scott W. Beidleman

Director, Development Planning Directorate

SMC/XR

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Executing the Mission

• Vision: Be the preeminent source of solutions for America’s future

military space capability.

• Mission: Deliver affordable and resilient solutions for future military

space capabilities.

IDEAS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS

Capability-Based

Assessment

Material Solution Analysis

Engineering &

Manufacturing

Development

MDD Joint

Concepts Strategic Guidance

AoA

New or

existing

Prgm of

Record

Technology Development & Prototyping

A B

Development Planning

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Development Planning Enterprise

Range/

Network

S&T

M&S

CFMP-IPP, PEO/TEO, SBIR, SERB, MIWG, RIF

SEAS, Space Brawler

Global

Positioning

Missile

Warning/Def MDA AoA, SBIRS Follow-On AoA Support

Spacelift Update FSA Development Plan

DARPA ALASA Effort

Space

Based

Env Mon SBEM AoA Phase II Effort

NAVSAT DP

Architecture Maturation

Tri-layer Communications

Raiders Lead the Way..Charting the Future Since 1967—Celebrating 47 years

FY13

Formal Range

CBA/Material Solution

SATOPS Commercial Provisioning

LEECH DP

HYPERSONICS

MILSATCOM

REACH

SENSE

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ORS

FY14

Concepts/Architectures

ORS 45 Day Study

Demos

Enterprise Ground Architecture

MUA

OSD Enhancing Tech (MIMO)

DARPA Solar Electric Propulsion

FY16 Disaggregated DP

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XR Projects

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• Purpose: Provides operators the ability to rapidly detect, warn, characterize, and

attribute natural versus man-made disturbances in LEO radiation

• Uses residual space within the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast

(ADS-B) hosted payload

• First commercially hosted LEO military payload; demonstrates real time networking

and data dissemination in a disaggregated, hosted architecture

• Successful Qual testing Nov 13 on Engineering Dev Units

• Flight units delivered Dec 13, first launch Feb ‘15

Responsive Environmental Assessment Commercial Hosting Demonstration (REACH)

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Advanced Hypersonic Development (AdHD - formerly CSM)

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Micro-Dosimeter

Tiny Photometer

AF Element of the OSD/AT&L Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) Program:

Concept exploration and tech risk reduction for unprecedented, hypersonic capabilities for potential weapon solutions:

• Hypersonically delivered weapons concept development/testing (Kinetic Energy Projectile, Penetrator, blast/frag, and

special)

• Guidance, Navigation, and Control Testing (long range hypersonic flight and precision targeting)

• Aerodynamic and aerothermal characterization (hypersonic delivery vehicle)

• Propulsion (missile boost)

• OSD Comparative (Concept) Analysis

• Weapons Lethality

• Survivability

RECENT/NEAR TERM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Successful Weapons GTM Summit: 9 Sept 2013

• Executed successful KEP Sled Test II: 17 Oct 2013

• Propulsion GTM studies (Booster Study): 21 Oct 2013

• Successful Penetrator case testing phases 1 & 2: Nov 2013

• Wind tunnel Mach 6/8 testing at AEDC: EOM Dec 2013

GNC Test Aerodynamic

Testing High Energy Weapons Test Mach 3.5 Sled test Penetrator

Acquisition planning for AdHD SETA support contract ongoing

Evaluating potential for Small Business set-aside

- (>$5M—1yr, 3 option yrs) RFP out April, contract award scheduled for July 2014 -

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Conventional Strike Missile (CSM) – Sled Test

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Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment (SENSE)

Micro-Dosimeter

Tiny Photometer

Wind and Ion Drift Sensor

Cubesat Tiny

Ionospheric

Photometer (CTIP)

Photos of actual

Flight Hardware

1 Mb/s S-Band

Radio, Diplexer and

Encryption Module

Compact Total

Electron Density

Sensor (CTECS)

• SENSE is SMC’s premier rapid development effort which demonstrates the capability of

NanoSats to perform space missions in an affordable and resilient manner

• 15 Months ATP to SV delivery (July 2012), 31 Months ATP to launch (November 2013)

• The first AF NanoSat mission, designed to prove the OSS&E of the NanoSat-class

space vehicle for the warfighter

• Pathfinder to determine if NanoSats are suitable as potential SSAEM follow-on

• Delivers three first generation miniature sensors: WINCS, CTIP, GPS-RO

• A “lights-out” ground architecture with leave-behind capability to fly the next minimally-

manned satellite mission

SV #2

Wind Ion Neutral Composition

Suite (WINCS) Configuration

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AFSCN Commercial Provisioning

Notes: *USB currently only planned at one AFSCN site

**Commercial currently does NOT use SGLS

• Purpose: Explore supplementing current satellite Tracking, Telemetry &

Commanding (TT&C) network (AFSCN) with commercial alternatives

• Industry performs secure, minimally manned operations with low lifecycle cost

• Approach: Soliciting commercial vendors for cost and technical feasibility data

• Connect to AFSCN / Satellite Operation Centers (SOCs); perform AFSCN mission

• Results due Aug 14; will provide inputs to SMC Enterprise Ground Architecture

Surveillance & Threat Warning

CommReconnaissance

Navigation RDT&EEnvironmental Monitoring & Weather

LaunchVehicles

AFSCNUsers

AFSCN Control Node

AFSCNoperated

station

AFSCNoperated station

Commercial

Commercially Operated

Control Node

Commercially Operated Station

Commercially operated station

Commercial

DISA Ground and Satellite Network

Commercial Ground and Satellite Network

AFSCN AFSCN

O-CONUSCONUS

Acquisition planning underway for up to 3 study awards

to provide reports to assist AF decision making

- ($200K each) RFP out in Feb, contract award anticipated May 2014 -

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• Develop affordable and resilient architecture alternatives for future SATOPs

• ID & normalize cross-mission services/functions with detailed analytical performance analysis

• Review/Assess required AFSPC SATOPs capabilities and opportunities for SMC missions

• Develop JCIDS, Acquisition & PPBE materials supporting executable paths to Milestone B

Enterprise Ground Architecture

Notes: *USB currently only planned at one AFSCN site

**Commercial currently does NOT use SGLS

Common Ground & Autonomous Ops

FY15 SATOPs DP

Common Ground Architecture/Baseline (CGA)

Future OPIR Ground (FOG)

Survivable Ground Architecture (SGA)

SATOPs Commercial Provisioning

Minimum Essential AFSCN

Resilient Enterprise SATCOM Network (RESN)

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O1: Clones

O6:Resilient by inclination

O5: Resilient by altitude

O2: Disaggregated

O3: Single strategic/theater

sensor

O7: Minimum strategic

mission w/ Maneuver

O8: Disaggregated w/ Theater

Maneuver

O10: Single strategic/theater

sensor w/ Maneuver

O9: New Strategic

Disaggregated w/ Maneuver

O4: Single strategic/theater

sensor ICD Chaser O11: Single strategic/theater

sensor ICD Chaser w/

Maneuver

O13: OPIR MEO

X1 to X4: above with DoD

OPIR/PC HEO

X5 : Aggregated OPIR/PC in GEO

X6: Aggregated OPIR/PC not in GEO

X7 to X13: above with

Common/Commercial bus

O12: Disaggregated ICD

Chaser w/ Maneuver

Robustness & Reconstitution

options

OPIR mission area

Avoidance

options Baseline options

10-month, cross-SMC study led by XR to deliver:

• AoA-level resilient architecture concepts

• Adverse-condition & hostile-action resilience

assessments

• Architecture acquisition and transition strategies

• Cross mission area launch needs forecast

• Cost/benefit analysis to inform requirement

determination

• SMC Resilience Methodology

Resilient Enterprise Architectures Pathfinder (REAP)

• Weather

• Launch

• Range

• Wideband Comm

• NDS

• OPIR

• Protected Comm (PC)

• PNT

• SSA/C2 (Enablers)

• Space-based Threats

• Direct-ascent ASATs

• Jammers

• Lasers/Dazzlers

• Infrastructure attacks

• Cyber

Mission Areas Threats

UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED

Project Scope

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MACST Modeling, Architecting, Concept Development, Science and Technology Contract

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MACST Modeling, Architecting, Concept Development, Science and Technology Contract

• Objective: Deliver & integrate decision support products

to assist leadership in prioritizing space objectives • Prioritize future Space Investments

• Accommodate and support flexibility in leadership’s

evolving vision for space capabilities

• Create a configuration management and knowledge

management database to create a centralized repository

for current and future projects

• Follow-on contract combining AE&I, XRD SETA support,

and XRF SETA support requirements

• Value: ~$100M–(1 yr with 4 option years)

• Target RFP Release Date: May 2014

• Estimated Contract Award Date: Nov 2014

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XR Support Contracts

• Security Support (XROS)

• Award as a task order under OASIS NLT Jan 2015

• ~$9M (1 yr with 2 option years)

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Dual-launch

carrier

• Potential SEP use: Downsize launch vehicles & inject most of

SMC’s fleet into LEO, using an integral, high-power SEP system to

efficiently spiral transfer to final mission orbit

• Lowers effective wet mass to LEO by factor of 2 more

• Enables dual- and/or mixed- manifesting

• Allows for launch vehicle downsizing for single payload

Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP)

1,5862,154 2,344 2,524

1,8922,261

1,601 1,857

447

447

1,6171,639

1,5291,545

631641

1,645921

2,095 1,5592,405 1,954

2,083861

7790

58905737

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0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

GPS STD GPS EP AEHF STD AEHF EP WGS STD WGS EP SBIRS STD SBIRS EP

Ma

ss

[k

g]

Centaur Prop

S/C Propellant

Payload

Bus

11,468

3,521

11,946

5,723

11,562

5,760

9,626

3,359

• Utilizes current state-of-the-art solar arrays

and heritage thrusters

• Minimize bus change: larger solar arrays, add

SEP engines and Xenon propellant

• Transfer time < 8 months - launch on schedule

• Enhanced on-orbit maneuverability may

improve S/C survivability

Dual-Manifest of

GPS III EP on

Falcon 9

Wet mass to LEO

Mix-manifesting

enabled by

common LEO

injection orbit

All-SEP LEO-to-

Mission Orbit

Transfers

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Rapid Innovation Fund

Congressionally Mandated

BAA call (Aug) for High TRL

Technologies that can resolve

operational challenges;

Must complete in 24 months

(TRL 8+)

Field in 36 months for ≤ $3M.

Two Phases: White Paper (Oct)

and Proposals (Feb).

Past cycle resulted in $7.7M in

potential award (4 topics)

RIF 2014 Schedule:

Proposals due 31 January;

evaluations begin early Feb

Award announcements 1 Apr

Expect on-contract mid-Sept

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Carbon Nanotube (CNT)

Space Wiring

Roll Out Solar Array

High Assurance Internet Protocol

Encryptor (HAIPE)

(2012) $2.4M (2011) $300K

2014?

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AoA Support Activities

SLOS EoO

Gap 3: Ocean Surface Vector Winds

Gap 8: Tropical Cyclones

Gap 11: LEO Energetic Charged

Particles

Considered Hosted

Payloads & CubeSats

Ground

Performed Analysis of Ground

Options

SBEM

SBIRS Follow-On AoA

MDA

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Questions?