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Since 2015, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has participated in the Space Science and Technology (S&T) Partnership Forum with the United States Space Force (USSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). One of the research topics is Space Autonomy, addressing the disparate requirements of these three agencies. However, there are common operational needs to improve mission performance, reduce mission costs, incorporate technology advances rapidly, increase reliability and resiliency, reduce risk, and adapt to anomalies and environmental hazards. While researching these requirements, the related question of autonomous system trustworthiness has come to the fore.
NRO autonomy research focuses on space systems engaging in behaviors in which human operators have confidence with some level of decision-making. Recent modeling has shown progress to overcome physical limitations such as time and the space environment, but the most significant advances has been in trust and trustworthiness from autonomous systems. NRO’s acquisition focus and the need to provide intelligence data in shorter timelines means that additional attention has been applied to document
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