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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 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 ...

The environment within the Department of Defense for acquiring weapon systems has been rapidly changing. Even with the recent terrorist activities, the defense procurement budget has dramatically fallen from its peak, and DoD and the Military Services are demanding more performance for less cost. Gone are the days when new systems could be acquired simply for reasons of greater performance. Now th ...

OEwaves, Inc. proposes to develop a novel radar-optimized opto-electronic oscillator (ROEO) that will generate reference signals in the X-band and at higher frequencies with extremely low phase noise. The ROEO will deliver the same performance as the best existing high-end laboratory oscillators-which are large, expensive, and fragile rack-mounted instruments-but in a robust module the size of a 9 ...

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 ...

"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 ...