Make aerospace computedeployable where radiationrisk is highest.
Radspec is TASC's intelligence platform for the fastest-growing problem in aerospace electronics: deciding which commercial components can fly, which need more testing, and how to manage radiation risk before it becomes a mission failure.
Aerospace compute is moving faster than radiation qualification. Space systems are adopting denser commercial electronics, while assurance is still built around slow, expensive, component-by-component testing.
That mismatch is becoming a bottleneck for satellite constellations, defense spacecraft, high-altitude systems, and future space-compute platforms. Radspec turns fragmented radiation evidence into an engineering decision system — component risk, uncertainty, test priority, and mitigation choices across shielding, redundancy, and design margins.
The problem is compounding
Fleet architectures multiply the number of parts decisions, and every additional spacecraft compounds the cost of a conservative screening posture.
The performance teams need now lives in commercial silicon that was never characterized for an orbital radiation environment.
On-orbit processing, autonomy, and edge inference push denser devices into higher-risk environments faster than qualification can follow.
- Missile Defense Agency
- NASA
- U.S. Space Force
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- National Reconnaissance Office
- Navy strategic programs
- DOE / NNSA
- Commercial satellite manufacturers
- Defense primes
These organizations face the same problem: they need more capable electronics on orbit, but cannot treat every new part as a standalone, months-long radiation-test campaign.
MDA has identified historical radiation-data analysis and predictive modeling as a strategic need for missile-defense electronics. TASC is using that demand signal to build the decision platform for radiation-resilient aerospace.
A differentiated multi-lab network
Radspec fuses fragmented historical radiation evidence with device and transport physics to produce component risk, uncertainty, and test-priority judgments engineers can defend.
Dr. Hayes brings radiation transport, dosimetry, shielding, uncertainty analysis, and space-electronics expertise. NC State's nuclear engineering program is ranked 3rd nationally and top-ranked globally. NC State holds U.S. Patent 11,887,743 for metal-oxide impregnated conformal coatings for ionizing-radiation shielding, with a related manufacturing patent pending. TASC and NC State have an executed project-IP agreement that creates a clear commercialization and licensing path for work developed through the collaboration.
The company-wide partner network adds UCLA's Caram Lab, creating a rare bridge from advanced sensing materials to radiation-resilient electronics and aerospace-system integration.
World-class university research with differentiated patented technology and a partner-enabled commercialization path.
Focused analysis to system of record
Build the radiation evidence layer and decision workflow for a focused component family.
Deliver screening and pilot analysis to satellite manufacturers, reliability teams, and defense-space integrators.
Productize as enterprise software for parts selection, risk assessment, test planning, and mitigation decisions.
Expand across component families, controlled-data environments, and aerospace programs that need a persistent radiation-assurance system of record.
The model is enterprise software licenses, engineering analysis, and integration with the existing radiation-testing and physics-simulation ecosystem. Radspec does not replace laboratories; it directs scarce test capacity toward the decisions that matter most.