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West Coast Solutions (WCS) proposes the development of the SSC-X Stirling cryocooler to enable the deployment of infrared (IR) payloads on small satellite platforms. We achieve extreme miniaturization (

As the orbital space around the earth gets more and more crowded with civilian and military reconnaissance, weather, tracking, communication, and navigation satellites - civilian and military users become increasingly dependent on the services provided by these spacecraft. This situation increases the possibility of offense actions against some or all of these spacecraft. The possibility calls for ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) serves the nation’s security and defense-related needs by developing and testing hypersonic weapons system models in their ability to destroy targets, and also design structures to withstand hypervelocity impacts (HVIs). The MDA is keenly interested in innovative diagnostics for HVIs to improve its capability to model and assess hypersonic missile defense lethali ...

Conventional imaging systems require large amounts of memory and power to run, bio-inspired systems can maintain performance while reducing the size, weight, and power requirements. In this project, Areté proposes the development of a fully bio-inspired vision system for missile detection and tracking. By combining Areté’s expertise in detection algorithms with the University of Tennessee TENN ...

Energy and Security Group (ESG) and our partner Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will implement TTPSim, a proposed Monte-Carlo discrete-event modeling and simulation (M&S) framework that combines computational approaches from systems engineering, simulation, and cognitive and social psychology to explore the impacts of human operator performance and variability on tactics, techniques, and proced ...

Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) platforms observe challenging threat and scene phenomenology. Toyon Research Corporation developed an image processing framework for clutter estimation/suppression and track-before-detect to jointly detect and track targets. The Target Extraction and Conjoint Tracking application, developed under initial Phase II funding and demonstrated using real-world data so ...

There is a growing need to study the effects of radiation in space and during high-altitude flights on electronic systems. The ever increasing need for ground based testing has outstripped the supply of available accelerator facilities at which to perform this testing. In response to this problem, RadiaBeam, Michigan State University, and Particle Accelerator Corporation are developing a compact, ...

Attollo proposes to develop an integrated sensor/classifier Focal Plane Array (FPA) where the neural network is implemented in a floating gate memory crossbar network. This device can be trained to identify low signal threats in high clutter environments, and hand that low-bandwidth information to the system for tracking. Approved for Public Release | 22-MDA-11215 (27 Jul 22)

The Relative Real-Time Mechanism (RRTM) was designed and developed during Phase I to enable testing of real-time tactical code on development platforms. There are three main areas of planned work for Phase II. The first is the continuation of the RRTM prototype development which will result in a demonstration of its initial capabilities and will allow for experimental trials by government users. T ...

In Phase II, the Attollo team proposes to investigate the growth and fabrication techniques of LWIR SLS and associated variants to meet the target objectives. Our plan is to push the envelope further by increasing the absorption coefficient, improving the material quality and carrier lifetime, and reducing any surface leakage contribution from detector fabrication. At the end of Phase II, we expec ...