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Contractor will develop innovative concepts and techniques to develop target recognition approaches focused on cognitive synthesis of current and emerging sensor data sources.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

Contractor will develop innovative concepts and techniques to develop target recognition approaches focused on cognitive synthesis of current and emerging sensor data sources.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

Building a reliable, high-bandwidth, and low-latency network is crucial to a distributed mission defense system in which the sensors are operated from thousand-mile distances. This is more significant for satellite linkswhich connect sensors distributed in a large area. In this project, we propose Reducing Data Latency and Increasing Network Bandwidth and Reliability (RDLINBR) for missile defenses ...

We propose warfighter training systems that are more effective, engaging, and efficient than todays systems. Practicing in a simulated environment has little value without the ability to accurately assess and remediate performance. Unique actions and decisions of each performer must be quantified and related to mission success or failure in a way that appropriately maps the contributing knowledge, ...

This effort seeks to develop training and operational displays that optimize user reaction times, minimize cognitive load, perform attention cueing, and present large quantities of data in an understandable fashion. The Warfighter requires advances in Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) to provide a usable and optimized system for missile defense.Key requirements of such a system are a rapid developmen ...

IERUS proposes the advancement and realization of recent academic research into tracking technology.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

Research seeks to correct the limitations of peridynamic theory that underestimates failure strains in ductile materials.Effort will revise and update current state of the art peridynamics models for ductile fracture expanding model to include temperature and strain rate effects while applying to the prediction of fragmentation in aluminum alloys.Peridynamics is a mesh-free theory of continuum mec ...

Optical Sciences Corporation proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of, and present a plan for, the development of an advanced thermally efficient emitter technology.The proposed concept offers the potential for a high frame rate, flickerless, broadband, large format (4k x 4k), emitter array with high apparent temperatures and efficient thermal emission. This emitter array IR projector system wil ...

IERUS Technologies proposes to develop a novel, conformal, non-uniform, ultra-wideband array.The array will mount onto next generation interceptors and provide beam steering capability across an angular range large enough to support continuous communications without reorientation requirements.The IERUS array will provide continuous communications across the targeted frequency bands.The proposed ar ...

The efficiency of future missile defense systems may be improved by increasing the interceptor vehicle payload on each launch vehicle.The objective of this effort is to demonstrate a technique, which is mass and energy efficient, for controlling the safe and precise deployment of those interceptor vehicles.Pairing programmable permanent magnets arrays with a controlled array of electromagnets in a ...