Verus® Research, a New Mexico-based team of scientists and engineers with expertise in advanced research and development, announces the award of a two-year, $1 million contract from the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
The contract is a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) agreement for the next iteration of Verus Research’s Satellite Software for Anomaly Monitoring (Sat-SAM) software. The software receives satellite telemetry and runs analysis to detect, identify and predict causal indicators for failures and anomalies.
“We are honored to receive a new contract for the next version of our satellite software for
anomaly monitoring with Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate,” said Dr.
J. Mark DelGrande, chief technology officer at Verus Research. “The program expands our
multivariate machine learning models, pattern recognition models and correlation analysis
identifying causal relationships and trends with outcomes depicted in our Sat-SAM user
interface.”
Verus Research is working in parallel with its academic partner, the University of Colorado
Boulder, on the model-based identification algorithms. Once the model moves from concepts on
the ground to implementation in space, the next generation of the software will run live on AFRL’s
Navigation Technology Satellite-3(NTS-3) with a flight experiment scheduled for later this year.