A reliable, fast, inexpensive high-voltage semiconductor triggered switch is needed to initiate exploding bridgewire systems. a switch of this type, coupled with the new "batch produced" slapper detonators will lower the cost of these high energy initiation systems to the point where they are… More

Quantic industries has developed five different usd designs recognizing the need to prevent inadvertent initiation of propulsive ordnance functions of the missile system and subsequent warhead movement. present devices are heavy, slow, expensive, and have hundreds of small, moving parts. quantic… More

Quantic industries offers this concept for improving safety and reliability of in-line fuzing. an immediate application is the universal air delivered safe and arm. this term is a magnetically actuated switch to prevent inadvertent arming of an in-line fuze. this switch is built into the core of the… More

The use of high-explosive, kinetic-penetration warheads is inhibited by the lack of fuzing systems which can accurately locate the warhead with respect to penetration point. designing such fuze is complicated by the severe deceleration environment and the availability of environmental sensors and… More

This describes a transistor-circuit time delay suited to hard target applications since it uses a thermal time-constant rather than capacitors or crystals to determine time. design goals are time delays of 5 milliseconds to 10s of seconds at 5% accuracy or better. this timer, powered by a… More

For robot applications, methods are proposed for sensing and measuring the range and bearing of obstacles or potential obstacles, using electro-optics techniques. conventional acoustic or radar rangefinding will not suffice for this purpose, but the use of structured light and/or tracking of the… More

Satellite life is often limited by failure of rotary gyros. additionally, attitude control in many satellites requires frequent uplink data replacement. thirdly, attitude sensorsare very expensive because they are generally newly created for each program. in this program quantic will develop the… More

The objective of this project is to build, test, and deliver miniature, high-energy storage capacitors that are capable of firing exploding foil initiators (efis). in the last three years, quantic has actively explored available capacitors for use in efi applications, and is developing designs based… More

An urgent need of exploratory development planning and assessments is early projection of ordnance technology products' life-cycle costs and future inventory capability effects. a model is needed of quantify projections of future inventory capability degradation. a pom+15 year projection methodology… More

The objective of this project is to develop and build prototype models of a dc-dc voltage converter capable of charging a firing capacitor for an exploding foil initiator (efi) fuze. the converter will occupy less than 0.4 cubic inch of space. performance parameters will emphasize rapid charge and… More

This effort will concentrate on the development and feasibility demonstration of an arm-fire device (afd) using a zr wool pumped laser as the ignition source. the afd will contain a nd:yag or nd:glass laser element, a safe/arm (s/a) optical shutter, focusing optics, optical fiber interface, and a… More

An all-electronic, anti-armor warhead fuze design and development program is proposed. the basic components of the fuze are: (1) a diode laser proximity sensor that utilizes a single optical path and coherent detection scheme that has the potential for angle-ofobliquity data derivation, and (2) an… More

Quantic proposes to investigate several unique methods of directly detonating insensitive high explosives with a small, 750 mj, 1.06 micron, q-switched laser. one technique uses multiple laser pulses with reflected shock augmentation. a second technique uses slapper initiation technology, and… More

Electronic safe-arm devices offer the potential for higher reliability, insensitive munitions capability and lower cost than current electromechanical devices. to realize this potential, however, it is necessary to make available certain nonstandard components suited to esa implementation and which… More

There are many types of active sonar threats that exist now or willexist in the future. these threats pose a constantly changing challenge to counter them. a very promising countermeasure technique that can be useful against a wide range of threats is being researched and developed. this technique,… More

This proposal addresses a solution to the problem of providing a target detection device which can support a directional, fragmentation anti-air warhead. the basic architecture is defined in the micom technical report rd-as-89-18. the diode laser proximity sensor is based on a design currently under… More

Quantic industries, inc., has been a major force in the transition of safe and arm (s&a) devices from all-mechanical out-of-line to all-electronic in-line. however, in some cases, a hybrid mix of electronics and mechanisms would result in more effective (s&a) in terms of life cycle cost and/or… More

This proposal describes an electrical system for fracturing aircraft canopies so a new escape system can rapidly and safely pass the seat through the canopy. No explosives are used in the system. Instead, electrical energy is converted to small pockets of high pressure plasma which will generate… More

Anti-glare visors and rearview mirrors for cars can be constructed by inserting a photochromic layer in the focal plane of an optical system. Rays from intense glare souces are focused and create dark spots on the photochromic layer and thus self attenuate. Rays from dim objects are left… More

Both solid state and semiconductor lasers have been used to initiate ordnance devices. Current diode laser technology can bring these systems from the laboratory into practical use. The results would be safer, more reliable and lower cost space launch operations and strategic and tactical missile… More

Advanced technologies in ordnance and wireless telecommunications make possible a small and versatile flight termination system that could be qualified for the worst environments and then used on most AF missiles without repeating a development and qualification program for each new vehicle. The… More

Several new technologies are available that use semiconductor devices to create high temperature plasmas for igniting explosive materials. An invention by Dr. Tom Baginski utilizes diffused pn junction diodes in combination with a silicon substrate to fabricate an explosive initiation device that… More