Aerospace & DefenseRAG-StandardExperimental

SBIR Site Selection and Visitation System: AI Enabled Software That Identifies, Evaluates and Simulates Contingency Airfields to Support Operational Imperative 5

This is like a military version of Google Maps plus a flight simulator that helps commanders quickly find backup airfields, check if they’re usable under different threat and weather conditions, and rehearse operations before sending real aircraft and crews.

8.0
Quality
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Executive Brief

Business Problem Solved

Manually assessing and planning for contingency (backup) airfields in contested environments is slow, labor‑intensive, and often based on stale or incomplete data. This software uses AI to automatically identify suitable sites, score their viability, and simulate their use so planners can support force dispersal and resilience (Operational Imperative 5) faster and with better accuracy.

Value Drivers

Speed: Dramatically reduces time to identify and evaluate contingency airfields.Cost Reduction: Cuts staff hours spent on manual geospatial analysis and war-gaming site options.Risk Mitigation: Improves survivability and mission continuity by enabling better dispersal and backup basing decisions.Decision Quality: Uses data-driven scoring and simulation instead of ad-hoc judgment alone.Training & Readiness: Provides a synthetic environment to rehearse operations at alternate airfields.

Strategic Moat

If fully realized, the moat would come from access to classified geospatial and operational data, close integration with Air Force planning workflows, and tuned models that encode service-specific basing constraints and threat models rather than generic geospatial analytics.

Technical Analysis

Model Strategy

Hybrid

Data Strategy

Vector Search

Implementation Complexity

High (Custom Models/Infra)

Scalability Bottleneck

Combining large, frequently updated geospatial and threat data with real-time simulation will stress compute, storage, and potentially classified network constraints; running fast what-if simulations for many sites could create both inference latency and cost bottlenecks.

Market Signal

Adoption Stage

Early Adopters

Differentiation Factor

Focused specifically on USAF Operational Imperative 5 (resilient basing and dispersal) and contingency airfield planning, likely integrating operational constraints and threat models that generic GIS or simulation tools do not natively support.