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The Missile Defence Agency (MDA) calls for novel adaptive computing solutions on either analog and/or digital architectures designed for ballistic missile defence (BMD) surveillance and missile seeker applications. It seeks for approaches and methods that may be attractive not only to satellites and interceptors, but also to UAV/UCAV platforms. We are proposing novel algorithmic frameworks for mov ...

We propose to design, develop, and deploy an adaptive toolkit for automated threat discovery. The toolkit will provide innovative mechanisms to rapidly discover emerging threat situations. The proposed approach integrates intelligent knowledge discovery techniques with knowledge-based methods to facilitate robust and cost-effective threat detection. The main product of this project will be the ...

The ultimate goal of the proposed Adaptive Trajectory Reshaping and Control (ATRC) System is to develop technology that allows autonomous RLVs to avoid catastrophic failure when subjected to performance restricting damages and failures. The main focus in Phase-1 is to develop and demonstrate real time solution techniques for reconfigurable control and guidance system, including on-line reshaping ...

Advanced Ceramics Research Inc., (ACR) will collaborate with Professor Ted Krauthammer Director, Protective Technology Center, Penn State University, to screen materials, design and validate a ballistic vessel capable of safely containing detonation of a 2000lb bomb for a minimum container mass and size. This proposal will assess new technologies and new state-of-the-art materials, and through a ...

Interior decks of naval ships have traditionally been treated with resin and filler systems, which, in the event of an explosion, produce brittle fragmentive projectiles that potentially endanger crew and critical ship systems. PolySpec L.P. has extensive experience developing deck coverings that are well accepted in military and commercial ships. In this feasibility proposal, PolySpec will out ...

The US Air Force will need smarter power source equipment to supplement primary power systems in remote-support ground stations in order to sustain long-term operations. Typically, solar based power systems are used. Fuel cell technologies and solar array source make the sources renewable and environmentally safe. However, fuel cell technologies require complex controlling scheme that must ensure ...

In this program, Magellus will employ metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and novel device processing technologies to develop large-area III-nitride HFET devices and RF circuits that are capable of operation at high frequencies (above 20GHz), high powers and power densities (above 10W total power and 10W/mm power density), and high temperatures (above 300C). Magellus has developed several uniq ...

21st Century Technologies proposes NETWAR: Predictive Threat Analysis for Computer Network Defense, a Phase II SBIR proposal. The objective of NETWAR is to develop an advanced knowledge discovery capability that would support the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), a component within the Air Intelligence Agency (AIA). There are two functional elements to this objective: To pre ...

This SBIR Phase I proposal describes the development of a conceptual design for the Advanced Optically-driven Spin Precession Magnetometer (AOSPM), an ultra high-sensitivity scalar laser magnetometer for airborne ASW. The AOSPM is an innovative high-sensitivity instrument capable of measuring scalar DC and ELF magnetic fields with a sensitivity better than 10.0 fT/root-Hz. Since the high sensitivi ...

The objective of this work is to investigate and develop dense corrosion resistant coatings to improve performance of aircraft components (AC). Cadmium metal (Cd), although a hazardous substance, is still being used as a sacrificial coating on majority of AC component. The PVD-based technique is developed to apply fully dense, well-adhered non-hazardous coatings to external as well internal surfac ...