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Intense dynamic and thermal loads will occur during stage-separation events that are of major concern from both operational and safety viewpoints. The insensitive-munitions (IM) stimuli and thermal/dynamic response associated with such events has received very little attention, yet this is of major concern for the KEI vehicle undergoing Stage 1 to Stage 2 separation. The KEI event is at lower alti ...

Our Phase I research involved the development of an innovative sensor scheduling algorithm in support of Ballistic Missile Defense. This algorithm schedules multiple diverse and distributed sensors to perform time-critical tasks relating to multiple moving targets; specifically, to detect, classify, localize, track, support the interception of, and conduct BDA for ballistic missiles throughout t ...

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Current trends in power requirements for missile systems indicate that there is a growing need for providing increased power and energy while simultaneously reducing size and weight of power systems. Additionally, because of the compact size of emerging missile systems and the limitations on traditional “tin can” battery designs, flexibility in battery configuration becomes an enabling factor ...

The modeling and simulation of the IR signatures and six degree-of-freedom trajectory dynamics of objects associated with theater and strategic ballistic missiles is an area of major concern for the development and testing of effective missile defense systems. Current state-of-the-art MDA models are highly capable and model a variety of complex effects including: IR radiation emitted from missile ...

Thermal management is a limiting factor in a variety of areas in the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). Proper thermal management of current Si and GaAs devices as well as wide band gap semiconductors is crucial for meeting survival and reliability requirements in advanced Radar, Communications, Electronic Warfare (jammers and electronic countermeasures), Space Electronics, and High temperat ...

The objective of this effort is to develop high performance rare earth permanent magnets with essentially constant magnet properties over a wide temperature range of -50 to 350oC, and which can survive temperatures as high as 500oC, for TWT applications.The combination of a light rare earth (Sm) with heavy rare earths (Gd, Er, and Ho) provides very low temperature coefficients of magnetic properti ...

kTC's high performance thermal core technology offers the potential of significant cost savings by allowing the use of low cost commercial components without the need for liquid flow through thermal cores. kTC's encapsulated APG thermal core is a highconductivity (>1000WmL) macrocomposite comprised of annealed pyrolytic graphite (AG) encapsulated within an aluminum sheet. In Phase I, k Technolog ...

MRi proposes to further the demonstration of graphite foam heat exchanger fabrication technology utilizing its innovative active solder joining alloys and processes (S-Bond). The proposed Phase II will build on the success of the Phase I feasibilitystudies that showed the active solder joined Gr-foam core heat exchangers to have over 15 x the heat transfer capacity as aluminum finned heat exchang ...

The sensing element is the heart of a sensor. A generic requirement for any sensor is that it only responds to the particular stimulus since all other stimuli are considered noise. The basic physics of the operation of a sensor thus determines the limitof its sensitivity. Here we build upon a family of proposed light sensors in which sensor noise is substantially reduced by altering the nature ...