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Nevada Composites has developed Green-AeroSM toolinglightweight ceramic tooling that is stable under high pressure and long-duration cure cycles and can be washed out with water after cures. Tools have a composite-compatible Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE), provide tight tolerances, are free-standing, and are of affordable cost. For BMDS applications Green-AeroSM offers both improved per ...

Lightning protection is crucial for atmospheric flight of any missile vehicle. The direct and indirect effects of lightning can easily cause catastrophic failure of a missile due to structural breach, fuel vapor ignition, damage to electronics, etc. While the indirect effects of lightning must still be addressed, with aluminum skin, if it is of sufficient thickness, the electrical energy will be ...

Team ATA proposes to develop a set of Trajectory Reconstruction Algorithms for Consistent Event Registration (TRACER) that will estimate the time and accurate 6-state track estimates of the breakup event of a ballistic exo-atmospheric object. Since multiple data streams feed the system, the target tracking needs to be performed in a framework of multi-sensor filtering. This framework also needs ...

Nokomis will adapt its mature ultra-sensitive radio frequency (RF) sensor to minimize power consumption while retaining processing capabilities and sensitivity to minute RF field perturbations. Hardware and circuit design will be conducted, with necessary components identified and tested under laboratory conditions to demonstrate performance. Experiments with a breadboard prototype and electrica ...

The team of ATA and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will design and fabricate a novel Tactical MEMS Accelerometer and Gyro (TMAG) as the basis of a high-end tactical grade IMU. TMAG will incorporate a novel design that is both a single-axis yaw gyroscope and single-axis accelerometer with a size of 5 x 5 mm. Three TMAGs can then be aligned orthogonally to make a 6-axis IMU. The IMU would be ...

Management Sciences is widely recognized for its passive instrumentation module that runs Bayesian algorithms which monitor signatures to assess the health and remaining life of electronic and mechanical components. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NM Tech) is our research partner. Our approach is to translate a current microelectronic module into an 1-in x 1-in application specif ...

Nokomis ultra-sensitive radio frequency (RF) sensor, the Hiawatha System, can leverage changes in unintended emissions signatures to monitor the overall state of electronic device health. As a device ages, emissions signatures change in a predictable and deterministic manner, enabling reliable determination of device readiness. Under this effort, Nokomis proposes to leverage hand-held embedded h ...

Continuously advancing ballistic missile threats require an interceptor missile system which has greater basing flexibility and highly advanced performance in terms of burnout velocity and Divert and Attitude Control (DACS). Liquid systems are the ideal candidate to fit this role because of higher performance than solids; however, they tend to be a significant safety risk due to toxicity, corrosi ...

Computer signature simulation in the visible band faces several unique challenges: availability of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) data, accurate modeling of BRDF in software, and modeling of reflected earth albedo illumination, which has high spatial and temporal variation. Stellar Science and Surface Optics Corporation (SOC) have teamed to provide a hardware and software ...

In Phase II of this study, MicroNet Solutions, Inc (MSI) will perform extended reliability testing on different types of commercially available molding compounds and package styles available in the market to determine if the molding compound composition significantly changes the environmental testing from both a thermo-mechanical and corrosion point of view.The goal will be to provide a matrix of ...