During NMD BMC3 system development, the generation of simulated threats is a cumbersome and time-consuming process. Weeks are often involved with the construction of a single threat scenario, and once constructed, the scenario becomes a static sequence of actions applied against the defense system in a software-based simulation. What is required is a system capable of rapid generation, injection and adjustment of simulated threats into a BMC3 system exercise. Such a system would provide an efficient mechanism through which a human operator, aware of the current state (and weaknesses) of the defense system under test and charged with the task of thwarting it, could rapidly inject or adjust a threat in an attempt to overcome the system. Such testing is necessary to insure the robustness of the BMC3 system. Envisage shall design and develop what will hereafter be referred to as the Rapid Threat Deployment and Simulation (RTDS) system. Using COTS speech recognition software and leveraging off of existing corporate expertise in the areas of visualization and computer graphics, the system will integrate graphical data displays, high-level natural language processing and ballistic flight models to allow an operator to verbally specify, inject and adjust simulated threat entities in real-time. Anticipated Benefits and
Potential Commercial Applications: The main benefit of proposed system would be drastic reduction in the time and effort required to test BMC3 software systems against simulated ballistic threats.
