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The goal of this project is the formulation a rigid, insulating, low-density wood composite, with physical and thermal properties comparable to fossil fuel derived foams. _x000D_ _x000D_ To achieve energy conservation standards mandated by certification agencies such as Passive House and LEED, high performance buildings require multiple shells of insulation – an inner shell that contains electri ...

The objective of this project is to design a software architecture based on densely-connected neural network to perform automatic targetsegmentation and recognition using training datasets of limited size (low-shot). Deep learning architectures have proved to be extremelyeffective at object detection and recognition, but such capability comes at the cost of having large labeled datasets. Such data ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) will design and demonstrate an Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE) that directly targets the need for advanced cyber network defense training for the MDA. The proposed new enabling capability will support cyber training against an intelligent red team to enhance cyber operator trainee cyber-attack recogn ...

Next generation hyper velocity projectiles (HVP) are needed to enhance lethality when deployed against ballistic missile re-entry vehicles (BMRVs). Opportunity exists for inventive payloads to increase lethality in non-Hit-to-Kill scenarios for gun launched projectiles. EMPIs concept for destroying BMRVs uses an enhanced HVP designed to project a fragment field that is forward focused, conical in ...

Nanohmics proposes a chip-scale, light-weight, low-power superluminal ring laser gyroscope (RLG) using on a multilayer metamaterial.The rugged, radiation-hardened RLG will be well suited for integration into the high-rate IMUs of next-generation missile defense applications, such as interceptors, with increased performance and survivability.Nanohmics will achieve chip-scale miniaturization by comb ...

Referencing Pue, et.al., Missile Concept Optimization for Ballistic Missile Defense, Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, The kill vehicle divert maneuver and guidance capabilities must be sized to remove system errors and accomplish intercept, but this need conflicts with the objective to maximize the missile kinematic capability to reach potential threat trajectories.Goodman Technologies in partn ...

Purpose: This project team will fully develop and test Fate and Fortune, an online class-wide intervention where grade 8 students learn algebra within a story-based game. Research demonstrates that students who do not succeed in algebra are more likely to eventually drop out of high school. When students begin Algebra I, a lack of conceptually meaning and understanding can be further reinforced by ...

Explosions and high-velocity impacts can create strain rates on the order of 105 to 107 s-1. To simulate these events, first-principles codes require material models that are valid at these loading rates. Currently, the amount of test data, material models and material constants for this strain rate range is extremely limited, and an innovative and cost-effective laboratory test procedure is neede ...

High-fidelity trajectory propagators are fundamental to the simulation and analysis of launch vehicles, missiles, and satellites. Applications in fields ranging from missile threat analysis to flightpath optimization seek fast and accurate solutions to large numbers of trajectories in federated simulation environments. Due to their robustness, well-known properties, and straightforward implementat ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has a need for weight-optimized solutions for future platforms of large missile structures. A significant weight reduction on these MDA platforms could increase maneuverability of the payload and allow the missile to launch additional kill vehicles. High temperature composite materials offer the means by which low cost and lighter weight missile structures can be a ...