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The current U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) is comprised of a range of components, the integration of which is the responsibility of the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system. In the current architecture, track data from Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) systems and ground-based radar systems are processed separately. However, ongoing work is devel ...

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Phased array antenna systems are growing in use within military systems. These arrays of thousands of elements need precise control of the aperture distributions to meet requirements for gain, sidelobes, etc. Errors in these phase and amplitude distributions over time will degrade the performance of these apertures. FIRST RF favors simple concepts with little or no hardware impact that fully ch ...

Phased array antenna systems are growing in use within military systems. These arrays of thousands of elements need precise control of the aperture distributions to meet requirements for gain, sidelobes, etc. Errors in these phase and amplitude distributions over time will degrade the performance of these apertures. FIRST RF favors simple concepts with little or no hardware impact that fully ch ...

Foreign missile threat will increase as ballistic missile technology becomes available on an international scale. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) requires high performance, high sensitivity and low noise infrared sensors for space based sensing applications that operate in environments where radiation hardness is essential to mission operation. Radiation hard by design (RHBD) readout integrated circu ...

As feature sizes decrease in digital, analog, and mixed signal devices, susceptibility to neutron single event effects (nSEE) becomes more and more an issue in microelectronics used in commercial and military systems. Satellites, interceptors, avionics, and ground based systems have all been shown to have susceptibilities to neutron induced upsets and latchups. With the constant push to use commer ...

THE SUCCESSFUL GROWTH OF GAAS ON SILICON SUBSTRATES USING DOUBLE SELECTIVE LIQUID EPITAXIAL (DSLE) PROCESS HAS RECENTLY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. THESE RESULTS SET THE STAGE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTREMELY USEFUL MATERIAL--LARGE PLANAR WAFERS OF SMOOTH GAAS ON SILICON. DOUBLE SELECTIVE LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY COULD SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY LATTICE MISMATCH AND DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL EXP ...

Current MDA High Energy Laser systems have can greatly benefit from more agile scanning optical systems.'' This proposal focuses on improving key characteristics of LHDC''s current scanners. These characteristics include scan performance, step response, pointing accuracy and optical coating survivability by utilizing innovative scanner mirror substrate materials and actuator configurations. Addi ...

The development outlined in this proposal will lead to an advanced concept modular IBS coating system capable of coating ~1m diameter optics to a high degree of uniformity, while maintaining our industry-leading laser damage threshold performance. In Phase I, coating uniformity in a commercial IBS chamber will be dramatically improved, and applied to 30cm diameter substrates. In Phase II, this t ...