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Space and military system designers have a significant and growing problem migrating from system solutions using radiation-hardened components to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and "rad-hard by design" (RHBD) components. Current testing solutions are either custom built "one-off" solutions, expensive, and/or not easily portable. QuickFlex is extending prior successful work for NASA to create the ...

SPEC proposes to develop and deliver a flight capable Target Hologram Generator (THG)--a programmable flight module that forms radar hologram target countermeasure signatures of hard objects in flight--to MDA's Target and Countermeasures (T&C) program. For example, a single unit is capable of creating multiple ECM/ECCM scenarios, different emitters - separated by frequency, phase, time, and other ...

MDA seeks for an efficient target tracking and discrimination system beyond the current state of the art. The primary motivation of the work proposed is to offer a topographic microprocessor architecture for multi-target discrimination and tracking with embedded sensors capable of operating in a process real-time manner. Phase I effort has shown that the performance of multi-target tracking (MTT) ...

In Phase I of this SBIR, Asier conducted research to determine if telemetry data could be compressed and encrypted. Asier determined that two different types of MDA telemetry data could be compressed and encrypted in real-time (no added latency) and without damaging either the integrity or synchronicity of the data stream. Telemetry files from the payload launch vehicle (PLV) and orbital/sub-orb ...

For Phase II, Lynntech proposes to implement the adhesively bonded stack technology developed in Phase I in a full-size, closed-loop, regenerative fuel cell energy storage system (ESS). The ESS will be capable of delivering 34 kW of peak power and will demonstrate a roundtrip efficiency of up to 60%! The ESS will include the use of efficient balance-of-plant components, and components necessary fo ...

Interceptor programs are in high gear and the need for advancing technologies to be applied to these programs are at an all-time high. Payload mass fractions are a driving force in the design process of these Kill Vehicles (KVs). Programs such as the Ground-Based Interceptor and Space-Based Interceptor are in need of ways to reduce the weight and volume of electronic system components, while at ...

The problem of supporting millions of lines of Ada code is of critical importance to the DoD and the missile defense community. The decline in the use of Ada has led to a fall in the supply of trained personnel, and a reduction in tool vendor support. Migration to a new language is usually technically and economically infeasible, so programs such as THAAD have a huge legacy code problem. A comm ...

The missile defense mission will require wideband radars to perform target imaging, discrimination, and kill assessment of incoming vehicles in real time. Wideband radars generally produce range-compressed images with fine range resolution (< 1m), a relatively small number of range bins (1000 to 2000), and thus a small range extent or range gate. However, there are applications within the missil ...

There is a requirement for lightweight propulsion and energy storage technologies with high energy density, long service life, good reliability, thermal and radiation resistant and low cost for use in high altitude airships for defense and non-defense oriented missions. In Phase I, Lithium Power Technologies proposed and demonstrated the feasibility of the thin film, flat-pack lithium ion batterie ...

This effort examines the merit of using Semantic Web technology, as developed by the World Wide Web Consortium and DARPA, to reduce the time and money required by MDA to reuse and maintain software. MDA has a large collection of legacy software and algorithms in a variety of programming languages. These algorithms are useful throughout MDA, yet rewriting code is costly and risky. In a Phase I SBIR ...