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Aft Looking Spectrometer for Plume Characterization and Waking on Re-entry
SBC: NANOHMICS INC Topic: MDA16016Nanohmics proposes to develop a hyperspectral imager for aft-looking sensing of phenomenology associated with target vehicles.The payload is designed to operate with existing components and has no moving parts.The high spectral resolution will provide feedback for signature models and the spatial resolution will allow the spectral signatures to be associated with specific phenomena.Approved for Pu ...
SBIR Phase II 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Advanced Rocket Trajectory Propagation Techniques
SBC: NANOHMICS INC Topic: MDA17T002High-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 ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Lightweight Structural Components of a Missile Body
SBC: TEXAS RESEARCH INSTITUTE , AUSTIN, INC. Topic: MDA17T004The 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 ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Methodologies for Cost-Effective Measurement of Dynamic Material Properties or Characterization of Materials under Dynamic Loads
SBC: PROTECTION ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS LLC Topic: MDA16T003Explosions and high-velocity impacts can create strain rates on the order of 105 to 107 s-1. To simulate these events, first-principles codes require material models that are valid at these loading rates. Currently, the amount of test data, material models and material constants for this strain rate range is extremely limited, and an innovative and cost-effective laboratory test procedure is neede ...
STTR Phase II 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High Speed Missile to Missile Communications
SBC: CESIUMASTRO INC Topic: MDA17001Missile-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 ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Advanced High-g Accelerometers in Small Form Factor for Inertial Measurement Unit Applications
SBC: NANOHMICS INC Topic: MDA17007Nanohmics 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 ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
SRPA: Scalable Rocket Performance with AF-M315E
SBC: LYNNTECH INC. Topic: MDA17010Lynntech 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 ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE)
SBC: KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS INC Topic: MDA18001Knowledge 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 ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Hyper-Velocity Projectile (HVP) Warhead Optimization for Lethality
SBC: Energetic Materials & Products, Inc. Topic: MDA18003Next 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 ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Superluminal Gyroscope for Compact IMU
SBC: NANOHMICS INC Topic: MDA18005Nanohmics 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 ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency