Seminar: Data Exploitation for Space Domain Awareness Mission Data Processing - Jan. 30

Greg Furlich
Research Associate, CU Boulder Center for National Security Initiatives
Friday, Jan. 30 | 10:40 A.M. | AERO 114

Abstract: Space has become a congested and contested as access has proliferated for defense, civil, and commercial opportunities. To ensure free access for all to collectively benefit from these commons, the United States Space Force has identified Space Domain Awareness as one of its core missions. Research at the Data Exploitation Lab for Trusted Autonomy (DELTA) at CU Boulder's Center for National Security Initiatives focuses on novel use of data, algorithms, and sensor systems to expand and deepen the impact of the USSF's SDA mission. 

Dr. Furlich will present an overview of research projects ongoing at DELTA that impact the SDA mission and connect to key SDA stakeholders. He will focus more in detail on a research project called Open-data Weather Imagery Launch Alerts and Tracklets (OWLAT). OWLAT has been demonstrated successfully on live launches, foreign launches, and the ability to produce tracklets with multiple observations associated with a launch.

Bio: Dr. Greg Furlich is a Research Associate in Space Domain Awareness for the Center for National Security Initiatives (NSI) and faculty member of the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Furlich leads the Data Exploitation Lab for Trusted Autonomy (DELTA). Dr. Furlich received his PhD in Physics from the University of Utah in 2020 with a doctoral thesis focused on the ultraviolet remote sensing of ultra-high energy cosmic ray interactions within the atmosphere. Prior to NSI, he worked as a research scientist at Lockheed Martin Space Systems with a focus on machine learning and algorithm development for a wide breadth of advanced programs and internal research and development (IRAD) projects. Dr. Furlich was recognized at Lockheed Martin for innovative research and leading technical contributions. His research interests at NSI include sensors and sensing, data exploitation, and trusted autonomy for mission data processing in Space Domain Awareness and Missile Warning missions.