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High-Efficiency Low-Volume Flight Pulse Tube Cryocooler
SBC: CU AEROSPACE L.L.C. Topic: MDA17T003CU Aerospace (CUA) and team partners San Jose St. University (SJSU) and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC) propose to develop a robust epoxy resin regenerator capable of improving cryocooler efficiency by more than 30%, and to design an enhanced compressor motor capable of improving the cryocooler efficiency by more than 20%. LMSSC manufactures a space cryocooler that already meets most ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Control Electronics for Space-Qualified Cryogenic Coolers
SBC: CREARE LLC Topic: MDA17T003Future MDA space missions will utilize small spacecraft with correspondingly small, advanced sensor systems. Cooling of these sensors is required to decrease detector noise and increase detector sensitivity by maintaining the detector at a reduced operating temperature. The cooling system comprises a mechanical cryocooler and its control electronics, both of which are critical technologies to enab ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Lightweight Fiber Reinforced Aluminum Components for Missile Structures
SBC: TOUCHSTONE RESEARCH LABORATORY, LTD. Topic: MDA18006The Missile Defense Agency is searching for innovative technologies to implement in future interceptor missiles and kill vehicles that will produce weight savings within the systems. To answer this need, Touchstone Research Laboratory proposes to develop fiber reinforced aluminum (FRA) metal matrix composite components to replace those that were originally made from Ti-6-4. The FRA is able to reta ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Green Monopropellant Thruster TRL Maturation Scaling Effort
SBC: CREARE LLC Topic: MDA12T008Diode-Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPALs) have great potential for high-energy lasers. Proper design of these systems is challenging because many interrelated processes impact their performance, and critical kinetic rate coefficients are not well known. In response, our team is developing a comprehensive physics-based analysis/design tool, and experimentally determining key kinetic rate coefficients. The ...
STTR Phase II 2018 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High-Performance, Low SWaP, Radiation Hardened and Vibrationally Robust Inertial Measurement Unit Employing Fast Light Technology For Missile Defense
SBC: DIGITAL OPTICS TECHNOLOGIES INC Topic: MDA14019There is a need for new types of IMUs, with better accuracy than the state of the art. Digital Optics Technologies (DOT) has been developing a Fast Light Optical Gyroscope (FLOG) that can improve the accuracy of rotation sensing by nearly six orders of magnitude. Alternatively, for a given accuracy need, the FLOG can be very small. DOT has also developed a Fast Light Optical Accelerometer (FLOAC ...
SBIR Phase I 2015 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Carbon Foam Lightning and Thermal Protection System
SBC: TOUCHSTONE RESEARCH LABORATORY, LTD. Topic: MDA14014Touchstone proposes to build on past thermal protection system (TPS) efforts and develop an innovative lightweight and low-cost system that provides protection from lightning strikes as well as from heat and atmospheric debris. This will be accomplished by utilizing a lightweight carbon foam (CFOAM) as the foundational material and varying the properties of the foam through choice of precursor an ...
SBIR Phase I 2015 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High Performance Noise-Suppressing Long Wavelength Infrared Mercury Cadmium Telluride Focal Plane Array (FPA) Sensors
SBC: EPIR, INC. Topic: MDA14021We propose the development of long wavelength infrared (LWIR) sensors based on HgCdTe in a novel noise-suppressing high temperature barrier (HTB) architecture, which combines the benefits of unipolar nBn and non-equilibrium, Auger-suppressing high operating temperature (HOT) structures. The proposed design is beneficial for controlling carrier conduction to minimize the number of majority and min ...
SBIR Phase I 2015 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
High Performance Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) Focal Plane Array (FPA) Sensor for Missile Defense
SBC: QMAGIQ LLC Topic: MDA14021We propose to bandgap-engineer the antimony-based Group III-V compound semiconductor material system to realize a dualband focal plane array (FPA) made up of stacked multi-barrier Type-II strained layer superlattice (SLS) photodiodes. Two longwave infrared (LWIR) spectral bands will be imaged in alternate frames by using a readout multiplexer that flips the voltage bias across the FPA from frame ...
SBIR Phase I 2015 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Increased Lifetime and Decreased Dark Current in Ga-Containing Longwave Infrared (LWIR) Type-II Superlattices (T2SL) through Defect Identification and Mitigation
SBC: SIVANANTHAN LABORATORIES, INC. Topic: MDA14021Absorber layers based on Type-II superlattices (T2SLs) composed of III-V compound semiconductors (e.g. GaSb and InAs) are a promising sensor technology for infrared imaging; however, dark currents and short carrier lifetimes in the Ga-containing T2SL are significant problems. It is presently suspected that the short carrier lifetimes and some dark current arise due to a native point defect, possi ...
SBIR Phase I 2015 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Ruggedized Ceramic Circuit Card Assemblies
SBC: MICRO-PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Topic: MDA13005Micro-Precision Technologies (MPT) will build, test, and deliver to military high-performance ceramic circuit card assemblies for the Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS). Based on our commercially proven technology for ceramic-based hybrid microcircuit and multi-chip module manufacturing, we will meet the MDA requirements for increased solder toughness, reduced footprint and wei ...
SBIR Phase II 2015 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency