Though considered "rocket science" by many, much of the work to define and assess space architecture options can be completely automated, thereby enabling many more options to be devised and assessed in less time. The Adaptable System Design and Analysis (ASDA) tool can effectively automate parts of "development planning", which in recent years has been stressed to produce decision quality products due to shortage of resources. Currently the development planning for systems of systems is "hit or miss" and thus less likely to identify the best options to pursue in a cost constrained environment. This paper describes the progress in creating a rapid turn, low cost design space to assemble architectures from launch vehicles, satellite buses and instruments, into larger systems of systems and find those best options. This type of tooling or framework has been discussed before within the community, but has not been used for planning and programming decisions across the entire AFSPC and SMC portfolio. This approach addresses the key obstacles to the acceptance of an automated process for AFSPC and SMC and offers the strategy to transition the effort into the AFSPC and SMC portfolio. Key ideas to be covered include: how to obtain personnel to run the design space, how to affordably update the information in the data bases and assure that the framework itself is maintained. These issues are shown to be solvable with existing resources within the USAF space community. The automated tooling can be used by the new Enterprise Systems Engineering Council efforts for devising cross enterprise evolution and providing the key injects for the AFSPC planning and programming efforts associated with the Integrated Planning Process in support of the Space Enterprise Vision. Other high fidelity tools and environments can be used at a lower price point if tools like ASDA are first used to cull down the trade space. In particular, the ASDA tooling should work synergistically with the Aerospace Corporation's Portfolio Decision Support Tool framework. The ASDA framework can be made to operate at different security levels to enable collaboration with many different parties. It is a lightweight framework which does not require special computational platforms. The entire tool can be written to a single CD/DVD disk.
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