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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has a need to decrease the yield time and increase the through put of optical ceramic conformal windows. Optical manufacturing has been a rapidly growing field with advancements in all technology spectrums. High performance optical systems are needed in aerospace, defense, medical, and commercial components. Industry is requiring these components to be manufactured ...

This Phase II proposal is to develop and deliver an advanced capability mid-wave infrared (MWIR) scene projector (SP) able to simulate the parameters necessary to adequately test sensors/subsystems for hypersonic engagement scenarios. The MWIR SP product at TRL>6 will be developed in coordination with the sponsor’s goals and delivered to the sponsor’s chosen facility at the end of Phase II. Th ...

In this SBIR Phase I proposal, Kent Optronics and its partner Boulder Nonlinear Systems propose to develop a technological road map towards a 8k x 8k dual-band short wave/mid wave infrared scene projection (SP) display based on the currently developed 1356´x 1356 16-bit liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) via a hybrid approach. The program will yield an ultra-high performance SP system in SWIR to be ...

We are proposing to develop a distributed deep learning classifier that specifically addresses the technical challenges of accurate distributed classification for missile defense. We plan to provide detailed information to the final classification decision that allows engagement of adversary threats. It aims to utilize a distributed classification solution that trains the entire network in a singl ...

Reservoir Labs proposes REASON-GFC (The Reservoir Assignment System for Optimal Intercept, for Ground-based Fire Control), an effort that will solve the problem of dynamic battle management, informing salvo management and ground based fire control asset usage with multiple plans for the warfighter to choose from. The innovative use of logical-constraint solving (SATisfiability) to find, in real-ti ...

This effort seeks to create a frictionless collaboration environment to allow small innovative government contractors to easily collaborate with their government program management counterparts. Current DFARS requirements and adherence to NIST800-171/CMMC requires a relatively significant level of effort (often additional FTEs) to ensure contracts are being executed in compliance with this regulat ...

Kitware, in collaboration with the University of Dayton, proposes to investigate the use of bio-inspired imaging sensors for autonomous missile detection. Among the various neuromorphic sensor designs, we propose to incorporate Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) based event cameras, which perform power-efficient visual monitoring by emulating the human visual system. Instead of densely sampling each pixe ...

The Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) threat environment has become more complex and challenging due to advances in adversary technology. Trusted and accurate data association can be achieved by reducing the inherent prediction uncertainty and the resulting data association uncertainty can be reduced by recognizing that IAMD threats follow trajectories that are planned to accomplish intend ...

At the core of the challenge facing MDA today is one of adversary air and missile threats being able to fly non-ballistic, highly maneuvering hypersonic trajectories all while having the capability of close formation flight of multiple missile threats. This problem results in challenges related to detection of the threat targets as well as the resulting filtering and data association problem. Ther ...

Optimax Systems, Inc. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) propose a collaborative effort, led by Optimax, with two focus areas. Optimax will focus on thin film coating development for optical components to: increase laser damage threshold of optics used in high energy laser systems, investigate methods for laser hardening of sensors, and model and predict the distortion of lightweigh ...