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The objective of this proposal is to develop a high-energy and high power lithium ion (Li-ion) battery for advanced space power technologies. Yardney Technical Products (YTP), the world leader in cutting-edge Li-ion battery technology proposes to design, develop and test new improved materials for all cell components to provide higher energy density, better low temperature (below

Fiber Materials Inc. (FMI) has developed and delivered carbon fiber reinforced silicon carbide (C-SiC) composite nozzles and thrust chambers for solid and liquid/gel fueled divert and attitude control systems (DACS) to Aerojet. The C-SiC material system has been validated with 3700 degrees F solid propellant. The proposed program will address identified barriers to transition of the material sys ...

Jitter suppression and image stabilization require an increasing number of technological improvements as vehicles become unmanned, more agile and work in more hostile environments. Fast steering mirrors (FSM) play an important supporting role in providing a quiet operating platform. LHDC has contributed a number of FSM for space platforms and plans to enhance performance of future products in fo ...

In this SBIR program we will design, build, and deliver a phased array radar time delay unit (TDU) with unprecedented performance. The enabling innovation is a new photonics-true-time-delay (PTTD) architecture that will provide: larger delay tuning (up to 20 nsec), low insertion loss (10 Gbit), rugged monolithic construction with no moving part, and very low SWaP. Importa ...

Use of data from multiple sensors provides the opportunity for improved ballistic missile defense (BMD) search and tracking. Algorithms for combining multi-sensor data are required. BMD sensor data fusion is a challenging problem because of incompatibility in coordinate systems for different sensors, which makes it difficult to transfer variance and covariance information, and because of sensor r ...

The most promising and scalable high-power laser geometries effectively manage thermal transfer from the laser crystal to the heat sink. While next generation crystals and pump geometries aim to eliminate waste heat in the first place, it will always be the case that efficient removal of heat will be paramount for further power scaling. When powers reach the kilowatt level, in an area about the ...

Colorado Engineering, Inc. (CEI) proposes to develop techniques for calibrating and cohering multiple wideband DREX channels that are scalable, embeddable, and suitable for real-time implementation. CEI will leverage its expertise with radar systems, embedded hardware, and signal processing to research and define solutions that address amplitude and phase imbalances, group delay, and sample locat ...

This effort will demonstrate a scalable aerial platform architecture which matches the scalability necessary for expandable missile defense communications architectures directly supporting all Missile Defense Agency (MDA) missions.

To meet the goals of SBIR topic MDA10-003, Welkin Sciences proposes to upgrade three important tools needed by DoD's strategic communications community: 1) the CommLink computer simulation used to analyze and evaluate scintillation hardening techniques by DoD scientists and contractors early in a transceiver's development cycle; 2) the CommLink Defined Transceiver (CDT) used by DoD contr ...

Computation of the radiative transfer model for a hyperspectral sounder with thousands of spectral channels is very time-consuming. Consequently, operational data assimilation systems can assimilate only a few hundred channels. The radiative transfer model is very suitable for GPU implementation to take advantage of GPU massively parallel computing capability, where radiances at various channels c ...