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Under this SBIR effort, the DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corporation (DAC) team proposes an innovative solution to the issue of post-break-up missile fragment tracking and break-up characterization. It will apply to the case where the in-flight missile break-up event is not directly observed. The objective is to track fragments and to determine as much information as possible regarding the nature of the e ...

Utron Kinetics proposes to develop high temperature advanced ceramic based composites of R-NZP, and Nano-Zirconia based advanced composites and their functional composites in near net shape geometries using UTRON's innovative, compact and cost-effective High Pressure Combustion Driven Powder Compaction (CDC) manufacturing technology. A 300 Ton or 400 Ton CDC Press will be used for the proposed wo ...

In the presence of a fast cook-off event, the propellant within a rocket motor can ignite, leading to a propulsive reaction or catastrophic explosion. To mitigate this risk, the Department of Defense (DoD) has Insensitive Munition (IM) requirements which are governed by MIL-STD-2105. To pass fast cook-off (FCO) testing, MIL-STD-2105 requires interceptor systems to achieve a burning, non-propulsi ...

A variety of ruggedized Lithium Niobate integrated optic devices are proposed. These devices are designed to support the requirements of Coherent and Spectral Beam Combining high power fiber laser systems including high power handling phase and polarization control modules and high bandwidth phase modulators for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering suppression. A primary goal of the proposed work is ...

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A Transient Protection Device is proposed in order to decrease the sensitivity of avionics to power bus transients. The device utilizes an array of ultra-capacitors for energy storage in order to provide a local power buffer to isolate vehicle loads from interruptions of the main power bus. In addition to energy storage, a set of electronics is included in the design to facilitate the integratio ...

Luna proposes a novel technique for the accurate quantification of the remaining effective stabilizers (RES) in solid rocket propellants. This sensing concept does not require access into the solid rocket motor (SRM). Therefore this approach does not in any way compromise the integrity of the motor and it can retrofit legacy systems and can be part of the next generation of motor systems and wil ...

This project improves the capabilities of hardbody optical signature programs to accurately support predictions in visible wavelengths. These improvements are primarily associated with 1) advancing Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) measurement techniques and associated databases, 2) providing accurate representations of the Earth radiance for any geographic location, time-of- ...

Due to their ability to generate volatile chip specific signatures at runtime on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) (without the need for non volatile memory for key storage), a physically unclonable function (PUF) can be used to generate encryption keys. During Phase I, McQ performed detailed research and evaluation of pure PUFs to design an extended PUF that was unique, reliable, and robust ...

The project team is developing and testing a prototype of a computer science game-based intervention intended for Grade 1 students. The prototype will include physical robots that will be designed and controlled on a game board by students through a blue-tooth enabled smartphone app. The product will include teacher resources and suggestions to facilitate classroom integration. In the Phase I pilo ...