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Developing low cost, lightweight, multifunctional Radiation Hardened materials with high specific stiffness, that are environmentally safe, provide low risk/liability, designable structures is extremely important for the Department of Defense in this current climate of reduced spending. As new Radiation Hardening requirements are identified for DoD programs, the development of lightweight, Radia ...

Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI) proposes to develop novel Gated Metal Oxide Sensor (GMOS™) technology into a device capable of sensing leaks of hypergolic fuel materials. GMOS™ is a robust solid state system that offers several advantages relative to convention metal oxide sensor technology including: lower power consumption (for long battery life), greater sensitivity and higher selectivity. ...

Currently the IRBAS ceramic radomes of the PAC-3 missiles are being attached at the Lockheed Martin Missile & Fire Control Corp (LMMFC) using an adhesive bonding process that is not capable to sustain high mechanical and thermal stresses required for this application. Conventional high-temperature brazing in a furnace cannot be applied due to the large size of the components being bonded and high ...

Current approaches to security are flawed because they 1) are highly dependent on characterizing known exploits making them vulnerable to new attack variants, 2) use hub-and-spoke centralized architectures that are not scalable and makes them vulnerable to availability attacks, 3) have single points of failure making them vulnerable to confidentiality, integrity, and availability attacks, 4) focus ...

This project will research, design, and demonstrate a Hybrid Framework for Information Visualization Enablers (HI-FIVE). We propose a novel, model-based “no-programming required” approach that leverages the proven IDEF family of methods, on Web-services, and a proven data display format called Data Display Markup Language (DDML). HI-FIVE provides an extendible framework for rapidly developing, ...

The objective of this program is to utilize a new type of microwave magnetic materials called MetaFerrites to design novel spin wave limiters to protect radar receivers from “front door” high power microwave jamming signals, and high power, short pulses and UWB interference. In Phase I, we will model, simulate, and design Metaferrites, design techniques for processing the composites, and inves ...

Recent preliminary research results have shown, (a) that misconfiguration bugs are an important source of vulnerability in enterprise network and software installations, and (b) how it may be possible to construct practical and useful tools that cyber security managers can use to analyze the security of their enterprise network and software configurations. This rsearch prototype analyzes the curre ...

This proposal is for the development of a versatile, computationally-efficient simulation tool for integrating flight path data from missile interceptors and analyzing defensive missile scenarios. The simulation tool will provide a user-friendly platform for design and testing of cooperative missile-interception techniques. We also propose to develop innovative cooperative control algorithms for ...

Advanced composite materials and innovative structural designs are required that provide a net zero impact or a reduction in mass while increasing the radiation and EMI shielding of MDA kill vehicles (KV) and space based platforms. In addition, the typical process of “strapping” sub-systems such as electrical wiring harnesses onto a structural backbone maybe insufficient for the requirements ...

Silicon Space Technology (SST), working with Texas Instruments (TI), proposes to demonstrate an innovative approach for converting a high-performance COTS ADC circuit (radiation-soft) to a radiation-hardened circuit by integrating two new process modules into the commercial process. Silicon Space has solved the major space radiation problems, Single-Event Effects (SEE) and Total Ionizing Dose (TI ...