“Space is vast and large, but things happen very quickly,” said Rob Hyland, Director of Program Transition. “This accelerates the speed of decision-making.” To succeed in high pressure, real-time situations on live operations floors, Guardians must achieve sufficient space domain awareness to execute established tactics, techniques, and procedures at the right place and time, and in accordance with rules of engagement. 

For Apogee, the team is updating our KWYN SOLAR XR application suite to include upgraded features and customization for various operational environments. The user-friendly tool, navigated through VR headsets such as Magic Leap, presents information in an intuitive way that translates abstract concepts about space into 3D visual representations that operators can understand.

“This type of interactive space operations visualization of complex spatiotemporal relationships in extended reality will improve collaborative, distributed planning of multidomain operations and enable Guardians and analysts to achieve space domain awareness much more quickly and effectively,”  said Daniel Stouch, Director of Space and Airborne Systems and Program Manager on the Apogee project.

With Apogee, the team will readily ingest relevant data sources and provide accurate and representative XR visualizations, content, tools, and interaction methods to support the development of dynamic scenarios for operational use. They will demonstrate and deliver the XR tools and infrastructure to develop, edit, save, and play back  dynamic XR-based spatiotemporal scenarios to support future operations.