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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Specialized computing hardware, such as GPUs and FPGAs, can provide dramatically better performance than existing, CPU-based systems. This specialized hardware is readily available in the commercial market and widely used in high-performance computing systems, making it easy to achieve high performance per watt and per dollar. The major unsolved challenge in using specialized hardware efficientl ...

While lightning protection has been applied to various small diameter composite missiles, large diameter composite missiles also require viable lightweight solutions for minimizing or eliminating direct lightning strike effects without significantly reducing battle space performance. For purposes of this proposal, our team will focus on the development of lightning strike protection surface skins ...

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 ...

ISSAC Corp and subcontractor RTSync Corporation propose to develop a Statistically Significant Simulation (SSS) capability. The ISSAC Team SSS capability will comprise an ontology organizing an extensible family of M&S tools composable to meet on-demand the needs and Intended Uses of stakeholder users. The SSS ontology will include a hierarchical structure of composable real-world and model-worl ...

Our objective is to develop and demonstrate an integrated capability to perform dynamic retasking of missile defense surveillance sensors. The goal of this effort is to develop an task scheduling algorithm that will allow the the earliest possible event detection and maintain the highest quality tracks throughout the entire engagement. Each sensor will have a unique motion history and possibly d ...

nBn Technologies proposes using our new absorber materials for dual color long wave infrared (LWIR) nBn FPAs. Our optimized nBn structure and devices show state of the art performance in the long wave infrared regime with greater quantum efficiency in top and bottom illumination due to to low dark current. Our main goal in this phase-II is to develop and demonstrate dual color nBn FPAs utilizing ...