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Ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems make use of carbon cloth - phenolic (CCP) resin composite materials, particularly as ablative insulators in the inlets and throats of rocket motor nozzles. However, CCP exhibits aging through increased moisture content, arising from both water uptake in ambient air and endogenous water generation in the resin as it ages. The presence of water in CCP leads ...

Under this SBIR effort, the DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corporation (DAC) team proposes an innovative solution to the issue of post-break-up missile fragment tracking and break-up characterization. It will apply to the case where the in-flight missile break-up event is not directly observed. The objective is to track fragments and to determine as much information as possible regarding the nature of the e ...

Numerica proposes an evaluation tool that can assess early-development radar technology concepts, using consistent metrics, so that promising investments can be quickly differentiated from less useful options. In this program Numerica will develop and deliver a BMD radar representative test environment for use in a variety of programs. The tool will provide an open architecture, modular operatin ...

Utron Kinetics proposes to develop high temperature advanced ceramic based composites of R-NZP, and Nano-Zirconia based advanced composites and their functional composites in near net shape geometries using UTRON's innovative, compact and cost-effective High Pressure Combustion Driven Powder Compaction (CDC) manufacturing technology. A 300 Ton or 400 Ton CDC Press will be used for the proposed wo ...

i2C Solutions and New Mexico State University (NMSU) propose to develop a Stable Maneuverable AiRborne Thermal Management (SMART) two-phase cold plate designed specifically to interface with laser diode arrays resulting in an exceptionally effective, lightweight and simple thermal management subsystem. The proposed approach will overcome vulnerabilities of current flow boiling schemes to local gr ...

CEI along with teammates NVIDIA and Altera wish to propose the following heterogeneous CPU, GPGPU and GPFPGA system with the following six benefits: 1. CEI proposes extending the existing NVIDIA nvcc preprocessor to optimize selection of computing resources based on profiler information generated by the application. 2. CEI would propose exploring Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) configurations that al ...

FCO is representative of a fuel fire scenario which is a clear danger to solid rocket motors during logistical and operational scenarios. Fuel fires carry a high risk of inducing violent reactions which exceed the safety envelope of the munitions and cause significant collateral damage. Current methods of alleviating this risk such as Thermally Initiated Venting Systems (TIVS) have had difficult ...

In the presence of a fast cook-off event, the propellant within a rocket motor can ignite, leading to a propulsive reaction or catastrophic explosion. To mitigate this risk, the Department of Defense (DoD) has Insensitive Munition (IM) requirements which are governed by MIL-STD-2105. To pass fast cook-off (FCO) testing, MIL-STD-2105 requires interceptor systems to achieve a burning, non-propulsi ...

The performance of methods for track refinement from break-up events involving ballistic missiles may be degraded by certain unexpected off-nominal behaviors. For example, if the parent object is a rotating rigid body, it possesses rotational kinetic energy that could be released as translational kinetic energy during a separation event. The conversion of rotational energy to translational energy ...

The objective of this effort is to improve first principles physics based models for predicting post-intercept debris at late-times. Current techniques terminate the debris scene at a very short time after intercept due to high computational costs of physics based models. Simple ballistic propagation is applied to the debris, which can lead to inaccuracies because of late-time deformation or com ...