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The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA’s) THAAD system is capable of detecting and intercepting ballistic missile threats. Hypergolic fuels are used in these missiles for inducing spontaneous ignition. These fuels are toxic, and require monitoring of leakage. InnoSense LLC (ISL) has developed a prototype sensor following Lockheed Martin (LM) specifications. ISL sensors are designed to serve as a dr ...

Space Micro proposes an innovative program for technology demonstration in a 3U CubeSat to support MDA's Nanosat Technology Initiative (NTI).

The Nanosat Testbed Initiative Bus Radio-Frequency Communication System (Bus RF Comm) will contain all the necessary subsystems to provide appropriate performance to meet CubeSat missions, while meeting cost objectives, ideally with flight heritage. Standard subsystems include: power, communications, magnetic-torque coils, a sun sensor, and command and data handling. To enhance interoperabi ...

Throat inserts and nose tips are essential and critical components of all missile systems. Historically, high density (minimum density of 1.9 g/cc), high performance Carbon-Carbon (C-C) composites, reinforced by multi-directional (Multi-D) carbon fiber preforms have been selected as the preferred materials for these applications.Different types of multi-D fiber preform construction have been devel ...

A two-pulse Third Stage Rocket Motor (TSRM) with long inter-pulse (100+sec) capability can enhance the Next Generation SM3 BMDS interceptor targeting capability.Due to this, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking innovative component technologies that support improvements for manufacturing/performance and mass reduction for Third Stage Rocket Motor (TSRM) and TSRM ACS components/materials. To ...

Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) Kinetic Warheads (KWs) use Navy Ship Board compliant controllable Solid propellant Divert and Attitude Control Systems (SDACS) to maneuver the KW for intercepts. However, solid propulsion system architectures have inherent performance limitations relative to higher performing liquid propellant DACS. To improve controllable solid propulsion for future long d ...

Plasma Processes non-eroding throat (NET) technology for aluminized propellants has been significantly matured since 1999.A recent full-scale second stage motor test demonstrated that the technology has strong potential for transition consideration.However, there remain transition steps that must be addressed to enable adoption by a prime.The Phase I was a precursory investigation of transitioning ...

"The evolution in safe and arm (S&A) devices to in-line electronic S&A and Arm-Fire devices (ESAD/EAFD) have not tracked closely with the incredible cost- and size-reductions made by electronics. Large electro-mechanical S&A devices used in rocket motor ignition systems have become one of the notable cost elements on current missile systems. Developing and delivering smaller, in-line, electronic S ...

To address the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) need for improved lightweight solutions for lightning mitigation for large missiles, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of a new Grounding Multilayer Missile Coating for Lightning Strike Mitigation (GRAMS). GRAMS provides protection to large missiles against direct lightning strikes by offering a unique solution that co ...

Our proposed second order uncertainty (SOU) product is a decision making software solution that addresses the problem of providing accurate and precisely defined decision courses of action (COAs) of complex, time-constrained problems in a fraction of the time required by alternative methods striving to achieve the same level of precision. Complex decision situations can deal with large volume of ...