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Through partnership with vendors of well-known commercial-off-the-shelf software tools in this technology area, we expect that we can access at least three key non-NASA markets: 1. United States Department of Defense, which will have its own mission planning needs in parallel to NASA's; 2. Foreign sales (subject to compliance with all appropriate ITAR restrictions); and 3. Private sector space operators. DECISIVE ANALTYICS Corporation has existing business campaigns in each of these areas that will further support commercialization of the technology developed under this solicitation including relevant performance with the U.S. Air Force and an International Sector with active contracts in Asia and strong ties to NATO. As in the NASA market, our overall commercialization approach will consist of a mix of sales of software itself with labor hours provided as subject matter experts in the mission planning area. In addition, we will explore markets beyond space mission planning specifically leveraging the fact that the Poincare mapping approach is a mathematical technique applicable to any dynamical system. This will include specific applications of dynamical systems theory in other problem domains in addition to the potential to provide it as a general tool as, for example, as third-party product for Matlab.","description":"The goal of any spacecraft trajectory design process is to identify a path that transfers a vehicle from its point of origin to some specific destination in the presence of path and mission level constraints. From the mission designer perspective, this process is divided into two primary tasks: (a) the identification of candidate startup arcs, and (b) the subsequent refinement of those solutions, via targeting or optimization processes, to meet some pre-defined mission requirements. The work proposed here seeks to address the first aspect directly, while addressing the second indirectly, using NASA's General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) as the underlying demonstration platform. Phase I of this effort is focused on developing a prototype for an Interactive Visual Analytics Tool (IVAT) for GMAT. The goal of the IVAT module is to provide a modern, interactive, preliminary design tool that allows analysts to more efficiently explore and mine the space of candidate solutions prior to selecting a specific mission for the refinement phase. The development leverages GMAT's Advanced Path Planning (APP) and Dynamical Systems Analysis Toolbox (DSAT), developed by DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corporation (DAC). IVAT is envisioned as a preliminary design tool that can be readily integrated with gradient based optimal or sub-optimal refinement tools, such as but not limited to those provided by GMAT. 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