SBIR/STTR Award attributes
DoD systems, including manned and unmanned platforms, control systems, and communications systems, require prognostic capabilities to increase reliability and mission success, and reduce sustainment costs, unscheduled downtime and critical failures. Developing prognostic capabilities usually involves building extremely detailed, time-consuming and expensive models that only apply to a single platform. Alternatively, more scalable techniques can develop prognostic capabilities quickly with less expensive models but generally have poorer performance and aren’t flexible enough to integrate information from more detailed models. Metron will bridge the gap between these two paradigms by creating Insight, a flexible suite of tools for post mission analysis, fault detection, diagnosis and prognosis. Insight will enable exploration of platform data, rapid development of low cost models, definition and integration of high fidelity models for critical systems, and fusion of information from multiple sources to increase the accuracy of fault detection and forecasting. Insight will provide engineers and analysts the ability to generate and apply prognostic capabilities in little time, enabling near-term increases in mission reliability. Ultimately, our solution will increase mission reliability, improve operational availability, reduce support labor requirements, and reduce vehicle maintenance costs. Moreover, these tools?will create a generalizable solution for improving reliability, availability, and safety across the unmanned systems domain, including throughout the government and commercial sectors.
