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High-fidelity trajectory propagators are fundamental to the simulation and analysis of launch vehicles, missiles, and satellites. Applications in fields ranging from missile threat analysis to flightpath optimization seek fast and accurate solutions to large numbers of trajectories in federated simulation environments. Due to their robustness, well-known properties, and straightforward implementat ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has a need for weight-optimized solutions for future platforms of large missile structures. A significant weight reduction on these MDA platforms could increase maneuverability of the payload and allow the missile to launch additional kill vehicles. High temperature composite materials offer the means by which low cost and lighter weight missile structures can be a ...

Missile-to-missile high speed communication can greatly enhance the operational effectiveness of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) of the United States.Currently, information from the first interceptor is sent to the launch control and then from the launch control to the second interceptor. The round-trip signal latency decreases the likelihood of successful interception. The approach pr ...

Nanohmics proposes to develop a novel high-G-capable chip-scale accelerometer based on modern MEMS developments.The system is designed to be robust against electromagnetic interference and will demonstrate an innovative approach for advanced accelerometer technology that enhances future Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) high-g operability and survivability.The Phase I program will culminate in a h ...

Lynntech will determine the feasibility of several scaled-up rocket engine configurations to use AF-M315E as a monopropellant which will result in a preliminary design of a subsystem for air launch/air transportable liquid upper stage engines. Four technologies will be investigated for their effect on increasing the thrust and specific impulse of commercial rocket engines, resulting in a new subsy ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) will design and demonstrate an Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE) that directly targets the need for advanced cyber network defense training for the MDA. The proposed new enabling capability will support cyber training against an intelligent red team to enhance cyber operator trainee cyber-attack recogn ...

Next generation hyper velocity projectiles (HVP) are needed to enhance lethality when deployed against ballistic missile re-entry vehicles (BMRVs). Opportunity exists for inventive payloads to increase lethality in non-Hit-to-Kill scenarios for gun launched projectiles. EMPIs concept for destroying BMRVs uses an enhanced HVP designed to project a fragment field that is forward focused, conical in ...

Nanohmics proposes a chip-scale, light-weight, low-power superluminal ring laser gyroscope (RLG) using on a multilayer metamaterial.The rugged, radiation-hardened RLG will be well suited for integration into the high-rate IMUs of next-generation missile defense applications, such as interceptors, with increased performance and survivability.Nanohmics will achieve chip-scale miniaturization by comb ...

The NMT/UA team propose to develop a radiation-hardened, low power, and highly robust delay-insensitive asynchronous circuit design methodology in 90nm technology, prototyped by designing a SET/SEL/SEU immune asynchronous microcontroller test chip (PIC 16C57, for example).The proposed Phase 1 SBIR effort will focus on design, simulation, prototyping and demonstration of the key functional blocks o ...

In this research, we will investigate and develop a new class of mid-infrared (3-5 pm) diode lasers vVhich was first proposed by the PI. These lasers utilize interband transitions for photon emission in a staircase of Sb-based type-ll quantum wells. In this way, we retain the advantages of cascaded tunneling injection and wavelength tunability, while circumventing the fast phonon scattering loss e ...