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Understanding the response of solid rocket motors under cook-off conditions is important to the safety of the military’s weapon arsenal. In this SBIR, CFDRC, teamed with Merrill Beckstead of Brigham Young University (BYU) and ATK Launch Systems, proposes to develop a software toolkit for simulating the response of solid rocket motors (SRM) to fast cook-off events. The complete software package w ...

Current acquisition, tracking and pointing (ATP) technologies employ optical image processing and/or inertial measurement unit (IMU) data to mitigate image jitter in critical air and space borne targeting applications. Image processing is typically performed using the Kalman filter or some variant thereof, despite the fact that these filters have known shortcomings. In general, they are ill suit ...

Seek to optimize end-to-end additive manufacturing process for W-Re (tungsten-rhenium alloy) using NASA's additive manufacturing standard, in order to develop a reliable, repeatable process that produces fully dense W-Re with optimum material properties. Approved for Public Release | 19-MDA-10270 (18 Nov 19)

For mission critical data storage on systems operating in natural space and nuclear weapons environments, the use of radiation hardened (RH) non-volatile memory (NVM) is imperative. Today's complex computer controlled electronic systems use NVM to store critical data for proper operation. This typically includes configuration parameters which allow the system to return to a known configuration a ...

For mission critical data storage on systems operating in natural space and nuclear weapons environments, the use of radiation hardened (RH) non-volatile memory (NVM) is imperative. Today’s complex computer controlled electronic systems use NVM to store critical data for proper operation. This typically includes configuration parameters which allow the system to return to a known configuration ...

The proposed approach provides innovative sensor data association algorithms capable of performing correct data association in multi-target tracking environments with one or more sensors. Improved detection/track association is an enabling technology for enhancing tracking and object identification. Data association is a critical precursor to the track filtering process. The data association proce ...

The proposed research provides innovative complex data management methods that go beyond traditional relational database management systems. The research will create efficient and cost-effective technologies to collect, manage, retrieve and analyze large data sets derived from missile defense modeling and simulation (M&S) results. The research will result will advance big data as it pertains to th ...

Sherlock is a data mining solution that will aid in the discovery of correlations and causations between BMDS performance and critical factors within large amounts of missile defense simulation data. It is initially focused on the digital test events, but could include any datasets (from digital, ground test, flight test, and SPMTs/SPFRs). Sherlock aims to provide a platform that can aid in identi ...

Missile defense applications currently expose inertial measurement units (IMUs) to harsh acceleration, shock, and vibration environments. Furthermore, as missile defense systems become smaller and more complex, they present tighter constraints on size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), while still requiring high levels of performance in addition to operation through radiation environments. New acc ...

SECOTEC is proposing an Advanced Hit Detection System (AHDS) with the development of a nodal (patch) network to advance our HDS design to improve the coverage, increase the resolution, reduce the one-and-done sensor blanking area, minimize power required, add fiber-node communication, and increase the responsiveness. Approved for Public Release | 22-MDA-11215 (27 Jul 22)