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In Phase I, Phoebus Optoelectronics will assess the feasibility of using the diverse, enabling light management capabilities of subwavelength-scale metal/dielectric materials called "Plasmonic/Photonic Hybrid Crystals," a recently-discovered subset of Z/NIM metamaterials, to develop higher-performance, lower-cost components for infrared sensing related to interceptor systems. Our hybrid crystals, ...

As part of an ongoing MDA SBIR effort we have developed REASON, a scenario environment for the missile defense battle management asset assignment and employment problems. Through that effort, we demonstrated how it was both possible and computational advantageous to map missile defense intercept scenarios involving complex coordination, mutual-exclusion, and deconfliction constraints and global no ...

Widetronix proposes two enabling enhancements for antitamper (AT) applicaitons in data protection and equipment monitoring as specified by our industrial partner, Lockheed Martin. Widetronix will build a compact, military ready SiC betavoltaic power generator with lifetimes of >20 years with power levels of 10nW-100uW. Further work in Phase II will address systems level integration of the generato ...

The performance of a multi-sensor Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) is heavily dependent upon data from dispersed and disparate radars and other types of sensors. Timely and accurate fusion of data collected from a variety of radars and/or other sensors (EO/IR) is needed to track and discriminate the targets, providing kinematics and classification information. The use of a sensor network is ...