Solutions That Inform

MTSI models military kill webs consisting of interconnected kill chains to inform decision-making across crucial issues which can determine success or failure in modern warfare. Each kill chain is a linear, sequential model of an attack, while the kill web represents a more complex, interconnected network of attack paths and potential responses. 

America’s and our allies’ opponents are actively developing techniques to disrupt and break our kill webs, such as electronic warfare, jamming communications, decoys, and maneuvering hypersonic weapons. Effective defense against these enemy countermeasures requires close collaboration and integration of systems and forces across different domains (e.g., Army, Navy, Air Force).

MTSI implements both the F2T2EA (Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, Assess) concept and Boyd’s OODA loop for modeling the different phases of kill webs. In doing so, we provide our customers with the ability to understand what systems and performance levels are required to disrupt and defeat adversarial attacks. 

Categories of Tools Developed / Used

• Threat Models & Scenario Generators
• Medium & High-Fidelity Sensor System Simulation (EO/IR & RF)
• EO/IR Imaging Sensor / Seeker Models
• Laser Propagation & Performance Models
• Tracking & Discrimination Algorithm Testbeds
• Space Architecture Trade Models
• Lethality Codes
• 3/6 DoF Platform Simulations (air, space, sea, ground)
• System Kill-Chain / Engagement Simulations
• Dynamic Targeting End-to-End System Simulation
• Coverage / Mission Level Models
• COTS Tools – Development environments, visualization, utilities
• GOTS Tools – Specialized models such as OSC, FLITES, AFSIM, ABP & many others

MTSI utilizes many individual models, simulations & general-purpose tools to support a wide variety of customer challenges.

MTSI’s Tool Set

CFAM – Analytic tool built for optimization problems such as determining the mix of munitions required to maximize the value of targets destroyed given a set of prioritized targets)

AFSIM & GLASS RED & BLUE – all-domain architecture & mission analysis for kinetic & non-kinetic, constructive & live M&S.   CFAM fed. with AFSIM-GLASS for campaign analysis to quantify new concept value to force structure, cost, time of completion, sorties, attrition, etc.

G6 – Closed-loop end-to-end weapon engagement simulation of fire control, threat and interceptor with 6DoF fidelity

SATTRACK – Closed loop space layer sim of constellation/platform sensors for track QoS

HyperRADS – COTS-based multiphysics M&S capability used to analyze and design concepts in air and water domains

OSC, OPTISIG, SOCRATES-P – Physics-based generation of EO/IR hardbody signatures, wake modeling, plumes

Overview

Today’s Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) faces formidable capability, capacity, and cost challenges. Our adversaries are evolving a more mobile, complex, and nearly continuous threat spectrum across the characteristics of altitude, speed, propulsion type, and range. The increasing prominence, complexity, and quantities of these current and projected threats and a limited budget to develop optimized solutions amplify these challenges.

Support

MTSI, along with our strategic partners, understands the challenges and possess the skillsets and experience delivering cost-effective digital representation of adversary missiles, missile-related observables, and flight test targets across all BMDS programs in direct support of MDA’s Threat System Engineering. Our team collaborates with the U.S. intelligence community (IC) and exploits the data collected and created by the IC to provide high fidelity, threat representative CAD, IR, RF, and kinematic models.

Rapid Acquisition Support

MTSI performs rapid prototyping, testing, deployment, and sustainment of ground-based, space capabilities meeting time-sensitive requirements with a joint military-government civilian team focused on the warfighter. We also provide technical leadership roles critical to development of acquisition strategies and technology efforts to meeting aggressive cost and schedule requirements for both the Transport and Tracking Layers.

MTSI provides defensive cyber capabilities that protect mission systems, software applications, and sensitive operational information against unauthorized intrusion, corruption, and/or destruction.

Benefits & Our Unique Approach

MTSI tailors digital transformation strategies to meet the particular needs of government and defense communities as well as joint- and multi-domain customers. We educate customers about our specialized services and demonstrate how we can collaborate in order to:

Improve mission effectiveness
Increase operational efficiency
Advance situational awareness

Trusted Partner Across the DoD

U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC)

Program Executive Office – Missiles and Space

Missile Defense Agency – Department of Defense

U.S. Navy

Strategic Test Planning

Our support encompasses the full span of systems engineering and technical assistance (SETA) activities across multiple stakeholders. We have expertise in requirements development, prototyping, integration, test and fielding.

AI For Test & Evaluation

MTSI created the Harnessing AI for Development and Evaluation of Systems (HADES) Tool to assess the real-world performance of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms under test (AUT), enhancing their reliability and resilience.

HADES uses an intelligent agent designed as an ‘adversary’ to explore the AUT’s performance space by altering its inputs.

This agent’s search process is more efficient than grid search methods and more effective than traditional Design of Experiments. Insights generated by HADES can be used to retrain the AUT, significantly improving its robustness across a broader range of operating conditions.