Charles River Analytics Secures Air Force Funding for Space Situational Awareness Tech Dev’t

The U.S. Air Force has issued funds to help Charles River Analytics develop an augmented reality tool that will work to improve users’ situational awareness capabilities concerning space-based assets.

Michael Jenkins, a senior scientist at Charles River Analytics, said in a statement published Wednesday the Space Operation Visualizations Leveraging Augmented Reality application features a workflow-centric graphical user interface that uses machine learning, artificial intelligence and analytics tools.

“Operators can make faster and more confident decisions with SOLAR because it fuses proven human-computer interaction technologies with next-gen augmented reality displays,” said Jenkins.

The company designed SOLAR through the Hallmark initiative, a program that seeks to reinforce warfighters' decision-making functions through the collection, analysis and interpretation of space situational awareness data.