U.S. Navy: Optimizing Hypersonic Weapon Performance
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Challenge
The U.S. Navy is working to rapidly develop and field hypersonic weapons, a process which requires analyzing a vast and complex parameter space to improve the Probability of Arrival (PA) and the Probability of Kill (Pk) of these new weapons.
Our Solution
For the Naval Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) command, OptTek delivered a robust modeling and optimization framework that integrates our OptDef software with AFSIM. To ensure the highest quality results, our framework also incorporates a Navy high-fidelity lethality model and a high-fidelity navigation performance model through custom-built AFSIM plugins that perform real-time data lookups.
Impact
We delivered a TRL 8 analysis framework that allows Navy analysts to optimize hypersonic system design and employment decisions.
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