USAF: SSAFE

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Space Situational Awareness Foundational Enterprise (SSAFE) is a Lockheed Martin program that was initiated for the US Air Force by The Mitre Corporation. MITRE acts as as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) and Lockheed is the Integrator.

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[edit] The Mitre Corporation

"The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. As a national resource, we apply our expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address our sponsors' critical needs.

MITRE manages three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): one for the Department of Defense (known as the DOD Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence FFRDC), one for the Federal Aviation Administration (the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development), and one for the Internal Revenue Service (the Center for Enterprise Modernization). MITRE also has its own independent research and development program that explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve our sponsors' problems in the near-term and in the future.

MITRE has 6,500 scientists, engineers and support specialists—65 percent of whom have Masters or Ph.D. degrees. Staff members work on hundreds of different projects across the company, demanding a high level of technical, operational, and domain knowledge.

The MITRE Corporation has two principal locations: one is located in Bedford, Massachusetts, and the other is in McLean, Virginia. MITRE also has additional sites located across the country and around the world.

[edit] Objectivity Case History

This information is an archive, so any use of the present sense in the text should be taken in the historical context, generally determinable from the Status section below.

[edit] Customer Information

[edit] Status

  • First Contact: March 2007
  • Lead came from: Webinar
  • Evaluation Start Date: May 2007
  • Evaluation Finish Date:
  • First Purchase Date:
  • Deployment Date:
  • Current Status: Training (5/21/07)
  • Can we talk about this customer and the product/project? Yes. it's on our web site.
  • Referenceable?: Yes. Work with the Sales Representative.

[edit] Environment

  • Hardware:
  • Operating System:
  • Precision:
  • Development language:
  • Compiler:
  • Third Party vendor tools: Rogue Wave Hydra distributed caching, but it isn't really needed with Objectivity/DB.
  • Open Source tools:

[edit] The Project/Product

[edit] Project Background

  • Was SHAC, now called SSAFE (Space Situational Awareness Foundational Enterprise)

[edit] Project/Product Description

  • SSAFE captures information on space debris, to help protect space satellites from being damaged.

[edit] Current Status (January 2009)

  • Phase I was successful.
  • The Air Force is pleased and will work with us on continued roll-out and performance.

[edit] Buying Criteria

[edit] Business Priorities

  • Project was designed to replace an aging mainframe system with a more modern approach.
  • The move off of a mainframe to Intel based distributed architecture resulted in savings where the cost of the entire project is 1/10th of what it cost to run the mainframe system for 1 year.

[edit] Technical Priorities

  • Specified growth requirement for transactions per second for this project exceeded the current world record for centralized database input/output.
  • Need; Scalability – distributed databases – data fusion
  • "Objectivity/DB also satisfied a crucial requirement for the Air Force's implementation of SHAC - it allows Air Force personnel to run existing fortran algorithms without modification, therefore preserving vital legacy data." - Mitre

[edit] Competitors/Alternatives

[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity

  • Scalability
  • Distributed database and processing architecture.

[edit] Partners

  • Rogue Wave - they chose Hydra before finding Objectivity/DB.

[edit] Collateral

  1. Press Releases:
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  4. Case Study:
  5. Other: Leon can give you access to a presentation about SHAC.

[edit] Contact Information

  • Objectivity Rep:
  • Customer Contact:
  • Customer Phone:
  • Customer Email:
  • URL:

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