Rapid Acquisition Approach

Successful Rapid Acquisition balances the speed of getting something to a warfighter against process and regulations. In MTSI’s role supporting departmental Rapid Capability organizations and the Strategic Capabilities office we have a long history of providing the right technical assistance and advisory to the government to allow them to take the right calculated risk when it comes to testing, cyber, and requirements flexibility. MTSI delivers highly capable technology SMEs that also have deep DoD acquisition knowledge, coupled with a warfighting mentality, to rapid acquisition organizations to help architect a tailored approach to each project and program with an acceptable amount of risk.

Rapid Acquisition Pathway Experience

MTSI has long led in applying rapid acquisition with rigor and leveraging innovative contracting models to deliver critical technologies faster and more effectively. We’ve equipped the government to lead consortium-based acquisition models that enable collaborative development of modular open systems and integrated system-of-systems architectures. Unlike traditional prime-dominated approaches that often fall short, the partnership model we enable drives speed, competition, and government ownership of system authority.

We’ve brought it to life on major programs like the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems, the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon “Dark Eagle”, and now the F-47 sixth-generation fighter, partnering with the government to elevate their role as a peer-level lead systems integrator.

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. 

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

GLASS Overview

GLASS is a physics & effects-based, closed-loop, Monte Carlo simulation using Boyd’s OODA as the foundation for modeling, simulating & analyzing a combined Left-through-Right of Launch missile defeat kill web against advanced missile threats. It is built using the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM) software.

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.

Software & Tools

MTSI and its team has the knowledge and resources to simulate intel developed scenarios and model the phenomenologies associated with threat systems from boost phase to engagement. MTSI utilizes both MDA and MTSI developed tools to model kinematics (G6, TGx), RF signatures (Xpatch), IR Hardbody Signatures (Optical Signatures Code, OPTISIG, HiRTSS), and wake and plume modeling (VIPER, SOCRATES, WAKPRO, HyperRADS) to provide high-fidelity simulations in support of DoD.

Lethality

MTSI’s suite of accredited lethality tools enable our customers to evaluate and down-select the most promising offensive and defensive weapon systems; resulting in significant time and cost savings for design, development, test, and fielding of advanced kinetic weapons systems.

Overview

High-stakes require the highest-level skills and solution set from concept and development to deployment and execution. MTSI Strategic Space is the preferred lead for rapid development, test, fielding, and sustainment of emerging, first-of-kind space warfighting capabilities.

As a prime contractor, MTSI provides highly specialized systems engineers and acquisition specialists to rapidly develop ground systems, payloads, busses, launch and launch control to field first-of-a-kind space capabilities to meet operational needs of today’s warfighter.

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.

Cutting Edge Software Integration

MTSI and its team has the knowledge and resources to simulate intel developed scenarios and model the phenomenologies associated with threat systems from boost phase to engagement. MTSI utilizes both MDA and MTSI developed tools to model kinematics (G6, TGx), RF signatures (Xpatch), IR Hardbody Signatures (Optical Signatures Code, OPTISIG, HiRTSS), and wake and plume modeling (VIPER, SOCRATES, WAKPRO, HyperRADS) to provide high-fidelity simulations in support of DoD.

Systems Engineering & Integration

MTSI’s suite of accredited lethality tools enable our customers to evaluate and down-select the most promising offensive and defensive weapon systems; resulting in significant time and cost savings for design, development, test, and fielding of advanced kinetic weapons systems.

Our Value Proposition

Recognizing the inherent challenges in digital transformation — from cultural shifts and technical hurdles to the need for logistical efficiency and overall readiness — MTSI prioritizes organizational change and workforce empowerment to better position our military forces ahead of evolving threats and challenges to our national security.

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

Digital Transformation 101

MTSI’s “Foundations for Enabling Digital Transformation” is a four (4) hour course designed to provide a detailed introduction of Digital Transformation including Digital Engineering, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Digital Twins, DevSecOps agile software development, Open Architecture, and other elements of a Digital Ecosystem.

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.

Test Support

The MTSI team delivers proven Test and Evaluation (T&E) capabilities to support end-to-end flight test planning, design, development, integration, test execution, analysis and evaluation.

Hypersonics

MTSI provides critical mission planning, test execution, and assessment for current and future, offensive and defensive, advanced hypersonic systems.

MTSI’s capabilities include conducting end-to-end hypersonic flight test planning, design, development, integration, mission architecture, range coordination, safety, test execution, and pre-/post-test analysis.

Our approach incorporates innovative solutions and software tools that provide our customers with substantial time and cost savings allowing for test execution using flexible launch platforms, unique low-cost target solutions, and sub-scale and full-scale launch vehicles at a high test cadence.

Overview

At MTSI, we have a long-standing relationship with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We have proudly supported our DoD customers for 30 years with advanced algorithm development and keep pace with all the emerging technologies and DoD policies.

With over a century of combined advanced analytics support to DoD customers, 100% of our AI/ML team have advanced degrees in data science, predictive analytics, computer science, physics, and engineering. A successful AI/ML effort requires expertise in algorithms, the technical domain, and the warfighting mission.

We have all three.

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 At MTSI, we have a long-standing relationship with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We have proudly supported our DoD customers for 30 years with advanced algorithm development and keep pace with all the emerging technologies and DoD policies.

Generative AI

MTSI leveraged advanced generative AI to tackle a data-heavy challenge by compressing high-fidelity, physics-based kinematic data into an autoencoder. This enables users to produce lower-fidelity trajectories suitable for analysis, modeling, and simulation.

Generative AI delivers results 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than traditional physics-based models, while also producing significantly smaller file sizes.

This approach accelerates analysis and facilitates rapid exploration of system concepts. The solution is deployable in secure cloud environments or standalone enclaves, operating on customer data at required classification levels.

Deep Neural Networks for Super-Resolution

We developed an algorithm for model based super resolution that converts unresolved focal plane imagery into a highly resolved map of the target. This has immediate utility for the intelligence community and mission defense Fire control in areas of object characterization and aimport selection.

Algorithm

We developed a diffusion model (DDPM) which uses a convolutional neural network (U-Net) to recursively denoise an image

Ongoing work

We integrate DDPM into our M&S environment to assess its utility for aimpoint selection, adding a classification layer for implicit object classification and including pose information as an output.