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Climate variability and the increased frequency of climate-related risks are redefining how communities address urban development and planning, Better storm risk assessment will lead directly to better preparedness which will save lives, reduce costs, and increase resiliency. Riverside proposes a data integration and visualization tool that will enable communities to assess climate-related risks, ...

NorthWest Research Associates proposes to develop a prototype system to forecast solar flares for NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center. Many activities and technological systems prevalent in today’s society—air traffic control and air travel, the power grids, communications, deep-water drilling operations, human spaceflight—are vulnerable to the effects of flares from our Sun, which can sud ...

During our Phase I SBIR program for topic MDA-073-019, Hypervelocity Intercept Modeling with First-Principle, Physics Based Tools, we showed the utility of First-Principle Codes (FPC), specifically Velodyne, in modeling missile intercept phenomenology.In addition, we identified a path toward the development of an engineering-level code built upon the foundation of FPC results.Here, we propose a pa ...

The objective of this proposed Phase II effort is to continue leveraging first principles physics based codes for modeling the high and low-order explosive response and characterizing the resulting debris for HE submunitions warheads in missile intercepts. Corvid"s approach will include development of reactive models and numerical methods to address identified shortcomings, development of innovat ...

Applied DNA Sciences (APDN) has developed a reliable DNA-optical adduct that is impervious to copying and is required by the Defense Logistic Agency (DLA) for the marking of FSC 5962 electronic components. Commercial inks supplemented with optical markers and proprietary APDN DNA, trademarked SigNature DNA, ink provide authentication marks that are of a higher standard relative to other taggant t ...

During Phase I, Vadum developed a novel combination of lossless predictors and compression techniques that successfully increased compression on a government furnished telemetry data stream and demonstrated that even greater compression was achievable on the video stream. In Phase II, Vadum proposes to implement an In-Line Compression Solution (ICS) that delivers robust, high rate compression wit ...

The Phase I objective of this SBIR was to develop a nanothermite-based ignition composition to improve the no-fire performance of electro-explosive devices (EEDs). The developed nanoparticulate aluminum/cupric oxide (nACO) ignition composition provided a significant improvement in no-fire performance while maintaining all-fire sensitivity within acceptable limits. A hybrid composition of nACO an ...

We propose to develop a TRL 7 navigation grade accuracy inertial measurement unit (IMU) using a novel micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensor architecture and combinatorial algorithms. Approved for Public Release 14-MDA-7739 (18 March 14).

The bulk filtering algorithm is designed to suppress or eliminate uninteresting objects from a sensor data stream allowing sensor management systems to focus finite resources more effectively on objects of interest. During Phase II Vadum will carry out a series of demonstrations showing the incremental integration of their bulk filter approach within a high fidelity lab environment. Vadum will a ...

The ISSAC team (ISSAC Corp and Oak Ridge National Labs) provides a novel, formalism-based approach that will allow legacy simulations to leverage current, state-of-the-art computational power to expedite execution and coverage of a vast parameters space. The ISSAC team will leverage existing corporate capabilities and innovative methodologies rooted in formal mathematics and decades of experience ...