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This effort will develop an innovative, space-to-ground, encrypted comm system for a microsatellite target system used to calibrate ground and sea based radar assets. For less than $200K, this system will provide the user the versatility to locate and operate a dedicated ground station anywhere on the globe. It will full uplink and downlink encryption and transmit via a unified S-Band frequency.

It is proposed to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the `Bonfire' insensitive munition (IM) characteristics of solid rocket motors. The study will focus upon developing fundamental understanding of the transient heat transfer, heat flux and the overall thermal load to and through the motor case's various multi-layered materials at elevated temperatures up to solid propellant bondline ig ...

Highly energetic chemical processes play a central role in many military and commercial applications. For example, spectral emissions from missile plumes, arising from high-velocity chemical interactions of exhaust gases with the atmosphere, are used to detect, track, and identify threat targets. Detailed, quantitative knowledge of the energy-dependent chemical reaction cross sections and rates i ...

A base model will be developed for both lithium-ion cells and a battery of cells. All the important thermodynamic and transport phenomena occurring in an individual cell will be accurately characterized. In Phase I, we will determine the appropriate mathematical equations for the base cell model, determine accurate values for all the thermodynamic and transport parameters, and develop an efficient ...

A current Exo-atmospheric Sensor utilizes an IR/Visible Sensor that does not require an external window to protect its telescope optics in the vacuum of space. However, it does require a cover or `lens cap' to protect the system while stored and during flight before it reaches an airless environment. A seal mechanism must be incorporated in the design of the cover to completely protect the sensi ...

Radiation Hardened Multi-color infrared (IR) focal planes are required for MDA/SMDC systems applications . Key to meeting these system requirements is to develop multi-color radiation hardened HgCdTe focal plane arrays for LWIR band ( 7-14 microns) and VLWIR band with wavelength of greater than 14 microns with high pixel uniformity, reduced readout noise, improved resolution, and higher temperatur ...

Our Phase I proposal addresses the demonstration of the feasibility to develop a radiation hardened technology for dual band HgCdTe Focal Plane Arrays which would include the LWIR/VLWIR wave bands of 7-14 micrometers and 14-18 micrometers. In Phase II, we plan to implement the approach to demonstrate VLWIR dual color detectors and Read Out ICs culminating in the demonstration of focal plane array ...

Innoflight, Inc. in conjunction with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, will investigate and analyze a low-cost nanosat bus to simulate a Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BDMS) target by combining their experience designing and building affordable, high-performance small spacecraft. The DoD-sponsored NPS brings past and present experience with the PANSAT and NPSAT1 spac ...

San Diego Composites (SDC) and the University of Delaware's Center for Composite Materials (UDCCM) have identified an opportunity to develop and demonstrate innovative techniques to fabricate integrally radiation hardened composite electronic housings for MDA interceptor electronics enclosures. The goal of this project is to develop materials and manufacturing methods for composite electronic enc ...

Irvine Sensors Corporation (ISC) together with North Carolina State University propose to develop a novel methodology using advance hardware stacking techniques to detect, mitigate, and track insider threats. Information gathered using this new methodology allows for tracking of insider threats across multiple system architectures that use Variable Message Formats (VMF) into a reconfigurable dev ...