F6MDK: F6 model driven development kit

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 27, 2011 2:06 pmTrack Changes Three innovations under this contract will address the challenge of developingfuture space systems via fractionated architectures wherein wirelessly networked modulescommunicate, collaborate and share resources to accomplish the mission. The work beingconducted under this contract addresses cluster flight and will investigate how to designGN&C systems that are service-based and are part of a fractioned space system. Under thiscontract Emergent will develop a fractionated architecture and algorithms that reliablyand accurately estimate relative PVT for an indefinite number of satellites by acceptinga variable number of measurement types, rates, and accuracies and develop a framework andthe algorithms capable of implementing the constraints and objectives for all F6 clusterflight maneuver planning use cases. This work will also implement algorithm scalabilitywith changing cluster processing resources and competing cluster flight maneuver planningpriorities.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 25, 2011 7:49 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6, Technical Area 3. The University of Pittsburgh and its partner,the University of Illinois at Chicago, propose a project entitled, Distributed,Verified, and Trustworthy Protocols for Mobile Spacecraft Coalitions. The contractorproposes to design, evaluate, implement, and formally verify protocols for asynchronousdistributed systems to create a secure, robust, real-time, and reliable protocol suitecapable of facilitating application-level communication within the F6 project.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 25, 2011 7:48 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6, Technical Area 3. QinetiQ North America, Inc. (TechnologySolutions Group) and its partners propose a project entitled, Space Global Commons F6Information Architecture to extend the open-source OpenLDAP package to make itdistributable and effective in an embedded environment, including a type 1 hypervisorrunning on each compute resource allowing instantiations of virtual machines (VM) orthird-party guest operating systems (OS), fully integrated network services using IPv6for intra- and extra- cluster communications, multilevel security component (MLSC) usingAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, and distributed resource management (DRM),allowing module-level autonomy while ensuring inter-module resource management, status,tasking and job control.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 25, 2011 7:46 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6, Technical Area 3. The contractor proposes a project entitledMission-Aware Network Architecture for Small-Satellite Adaptive Systems (MANASSAS),software and networking techniques for the F6 infrastructure that will allow sensors andsoftware on different satellites to exchange, combine, and process data and deliver itquickly and reliably to its intended users. MANASSAS is a Cognitive Network, capable ofsensing its state and environment and capable of modifying its behavior in response tochanges in conditions to accomplish its goals.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 25, 2011 7:45 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6, Technical Area 2. Space Micro and its partners propose a projectentitled Satellite Interoperability for Microwave Access (SiMAX) Inter-Module ClusterCommunication System, which proposes to develop a multi-tone, spread spectrum wirelesscommunication waveform programmed into a satellite-grade reconfigurable transceiverproviding very high speed wireless LAN style communications.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 24, 2011 5:27 pmTrack Changes This procurement is a post-selection under NASAs Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)under an interagency acquisition to support DARPA for work in research and development inspace architectures. Procedures for the selection of the BAAs are included in thesolicitation #DARPA-BAA-11-01, System F6, Tactical Technology Office (TTO) dated forOctober 20, 2010. This procurement is titled, Service-Based Cluster Flight Algorithmsand Software.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 13, 2011 7:21 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6, Technical Area 3, DynaSat is a dynamic satellite networking systemthat supports adaptive, fault-tolerant, and secure value-centric fractionated spacearchitectures as part of System F6s Information Architecture Technical Area 3. Itadapts proven, novel DARPA-sponsored USC/ISI network technology to rapidly deliver thebasis of a development kit to support robust Internet-compatible communications anddistributed systems development in cluster payload environments to meet the acceleratedF6 schedule that culminates in on-orbit demonstrations in 2014-2015.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 13, 2011 7:15 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6, Technical Area 1, SatTrade: F6 Tool Suite for Valuating, Designingand Planning Spacecraft Clusters and Modules in a Variable Environment.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 13, 2011 5:34 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6, Technical Area 2, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and itspartner will develop the F6 Wireless Inter-Module Communications System (F6WICS), awireless solution extending spacecraft crosslink communications from traditionalpointto-point solutions to a network architecture that enables resource sharing and datadistribution across a cluster or community of spacecraft.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 13, 2011 5:29 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6 program, Technical Area 1, FRACSAT: An Integrated LifecycleDecision Support Toolkit for Fractionated Spacecraft Architectures. Palo Alto ResearchCenter (PARC) and its partners will design, develop, and deliver an integrated lifecycledecision-support toolkit for fractionated spacecraft architectures. When completed, theFRACSAT toolkit will enable space mission designers to rapidly generate feasible missionarchitectures, select optimal design solutions given programmatic uncertainty, justifythe business case using mission-relevant cost and benefit metrics, and adapt tounforeseen events or changes during the program lifecycle for maximum mission impact.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 13, 2011 5:21 pmTrack Changes DARPA System F6 program, Technical Area 2, Aeronix and its partners will develop acrosslink communication system by leveraging existing COTS and opensource technology.The solution to the Wireless InterModule Communications (WIC) will use well defined,standards-based interfaces supplemented by key technological advancements with a path toenhancement in the future.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 13, 2011 1:24 pmTrack Changes NASA Ames Research Center has awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract for research anddevelopment of disaggregated or fractionated space architectures. The goal is to developa design for software and hardware for a satellite system that uses a cluster ofwirelessly interconnected modules capable of sharing their resources and utilizingresources found elsewhere in the cluster. The contractor will measure the value of aFractionated Space System and determine when and with what design and architecture wouldbe most beneficial, and, contractor will develop a framework for distributing thefunctionality and components among different modules in a fractionated spacecraft.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 13, 2011 1:23 pmTrack Changes NASA Ames Research Center has awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract for research anddevelopment of disaggregated or fractionated space architectures. The goal is to developa design for software and hardware for a satellite system that uses a cluster ofwirelessly interconnected modules capable of sharing their resources and utilizingresources found elsewhere in the cluster. The contractor will develop a comprehensiveinformation architecture system to enable fractionated space systems, including design,development, integration, deployment, and testing of this system.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm This work sets forth the effort for DARPA System F6 program InformationArchitecture technical area. This Technical Area 3 seeks the development of aninformation architecture to function at Layers 3 through 7 across the space-basedwireless links and extending to the ground segment via a variety of downlink paths. Theinformation architecture supports dynamic routing or switching, real-time resourcesharing and scheduling, fault tolerant behaviors, and a multi-level information assurancesolution.

Added: May 12, 2011 11:56 pm Modified: May 12, 2011 12:05 amTrack Changes Raytheon BBN teams Adaptive, Efficient, Trusted, Hardened Environmentally Robust(AETHER) Network provides a unique forward-looking approach to the creation of aninnovative F6 Information Architecture. Raytheons BBN team proposes a lightweightpublish-subscribe-query (PSQ) architecture that exploits the limitations of the F6environment (limited bandwidth and limited spaced-based storage). The result is anarchitecture that is radically clean with unprecedented ease of verification andvalidation (V&V), operations, maintenance, reliability, robustness, and future proofingyet is fully open source and ITAR free. The central concept of fractionated satellitesystems is that rather than launching a monolithic spacecraft, maximally packed withresources, we should launch a cluster of smaller satellites (modules), in which eachmodule carries few resources, and the modules share these resources over a wirelessnetwork to replicate and extend the services of a monolithic platform. The advantages ofa fractionated architecture include the ability to replace and enhance modules as well asto add new capabilities to the cluster.