Modeling & Simulation
Proving the possible through analysis.
Orbital Mechanics

At a Glance
When making decisions concerning complex planning and design, some organizations can be limited if they operate on human intuition and utilize static, rather than dynamic, analyses. Without the establishment of an optimal design, resources such as time, money, and energy can be unnecessarily expended.

The Exo Solution
Exostrategies creates a virtual representation of systems, allowing:
Simulation under a wide range of conditions to anticipate how the system will behave
Multiple testing conditions that would ordinarily be impossible to reproduce without spending large amounts of funding
Improvement of the quality of risk mitigation courses of action, reducing common mistakes

Highlights
Exostrategies’ modeling and simulation processes support the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS) by:
Identifying overflight hotspots that cause premature hardware failure points, the benefits of various antenna locations, and the feasibility of phased array radars in place of traditional radars
Creating a system that calculates all satellite missions and their overflight for any number of ground station points
Optimizing an analysis platform to calculate 100,000+ of contact visibilities with ground stations in advance
Creating a scheduling platform that enables operators to establish pre-defined mission priorities for various systems
Performing Monte-Carlo simulations of probability, resiliency, or variation in pre/post processing
Replicating the actual scheduling metrics to within a 3% margin of error and using this baseline to determine the best sequence of antenna upgrade sequencing with the least amount of risk and impact to overall network performance
Providing a ground site optimization recommendation based on current and future demands to their network, resulting in a $50,000,000+ cost savings
Network Traffic Analysis

At a Glance
In any network, devices must be able to communicate with each other, but they are all vying for the same bandwidth. Increased network data acts can bog down a network and result in slowing down operations, putting the network and systems that rely on at risk.

The Exo Solution
Exostrategies assists in network traffic management by:
Developing a completely custom solution to simulate the traffic generated by a network
Measuring the amount of time, latency, and bandwidth required to transfer data throughout an operation
Allowing decision makers to easily visualize the overall results
Allowing engineers to study details to understand how bottlenecks and other Quality of Service issues occur
Enabling allocation of bandwidth to various applications based on mission priorities

Highlights
Exostrategies uses our event-based simulation approach to support the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) in:
Creating a custom Quality of Service model for simulating the prioritization of satellite data passed over a ground network
Identifying key metrics such as data latency, bandwidth, and saturation issues
Incorporating actual satellite contact visibility windows into simulations, allowing us to replicate real-world conditions instead of probable conditions
Launch Range Optimization

At a Glance
Today’s launch ranges experience high traffic and lack communication between launch ranges. Each range operates independently, leading to a lack of synergy in operations between ranges.

The Exo Solution
Exostrategies assists customers in Launch Range Optimization by:
Creating external interfaces for 3rd party tools to help users work with and manage data created and consumed by the model
Enabling users to run simulations and receive results that are automatically extracted, compiled, and visualized within Architex
Enabling users understand the characteristics, demand, and capabilities of the model and provided parameters

Highlights
Exostrategies works with the Air Force Launch Range to:
Develop a custom software solution to help optimize and extend an existing ExtendSim model
Provide a higher level of flexibility in understanding the inputs into the model
Visualize the model results in a meaningful way
Enable our customer to perform loading and scheduling optimizations for the Eastern and Western launch ranges
Anticipate and support future and current demands
Software Solutions

At a Glance
When problems arise within an organization, utilizing static and inflexible software frameworks can lead to an inability to develop complex solutions in an agile manner.

The Exo Solution
Exostrategies uses our agile software development processes and our Architex Decision Support Software to:
Address deficiencies with existing solutions that may prevent an organization from meeting their objectives
Create and maintain a Continuous Integration environment, leveraging CMMI methodologies for repeatable software releases
Perform software development tasks using agile methods
Utilize static code and Unit and Functional Testing analysis to ensure all possible vulnerabilities have been addressed

Highlights
Exostrategies supports the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN), the Air Force Launch Range, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) by:
Building a custom web-based interface to visualize, filter, and organize over 1000 projects and their dependencies
Providing clear insight across the various organizational stovepipes to help make effective decisions when shifting projects to the right
Building custom interfaces into 3rd party tools to provide novice users an ability to run, modify, and visualize the results from simulations
Enabling the organization to perform detailed analysis on optimal ground-site locations within a desired latency requirement