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Measuring and characterizing the post-intercept state of a missile intercept event is critical for determination of interceptor lethality and kill assessments (KA). A number of sensors (including radar and spectral and imaging sensors) have been used to characterize these events. FreEnt proposes an innovative approach to KA based on mathematical formalisms successfully employed in atomic and molec ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to utilize a ground-based simulation facility based upon its patented FAST technology to obtain critical data necessary to validate and extend the capabilities of the MDAs high altitude plume code: SOCRATES-P. Far-field plume signatures arise from the hyperthermal interaction of rocket plume effluent with the atmosphere at altitudes greater than 100 km. In P ...

The strategic planning and creation of test scenarios for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) All Digital System Level Simulations and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) test events is a lengthy and arduous endeavor. In some respects the difficulties and time required are understandable. There are a large number of stakeholders with a wide variety of perspectives, objectives and priorities. However, while a ...

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) proposes a Streamlined Scenario Integration Software Toolset (aSSIST), an innovative set of software solutions that will streamline and facilitate the coordination of scenario designs and generation for the HWIL and Digital test venues, in response to the Missile Defense Agencys (MDA) SBIR Phase I Solicitation, Innovative Ways to Streamline Scenario Generation Across a Syst ...

The objective of the proposed effort is to develop an approach for fast-running modeling of intercept debris initial characteristics from non hit-to-kill (NHTK) missile defense engagements. The benefit of this capability is realistic debris truth modeling for NHTK engagements to support a variety of MDA element and Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Modeling & Simulation (M&S) frameworks and ...

The modeling & simulation (M&S) tools currently used by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to simulate radiofrequency (RF) propagation effects on ballistic missile defense (BMD) radar performance produce medium-to-high fidelity results. However, these tools do not incorporate all relevant RF propagation phenomena, assess propagation effects on radar system performance, or support real-time simulatio ...

Current environment models employed in MDA simulations are not configured to thoroughly evaluate the effects of the environment on radar performance. Also the current models are not coordinated to present a globally consistent environment picture and can be based on functions that have not been updated to take advantage of the environment models and databases that have become freely available in t ...

QmagiQ, LLC proposes to partner with The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. to experimentally study radiation effects on antimony-based strained layer superlattice (SLS) photodiodes that have shown remarkable performance improvements in recent years. QmagiQ's SLS infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs) are already designed to be radiation-hard to some degree. In Phase I, we will measure how rad-ha ...

Navigation performance of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) is governed by the accuracies of initial alignment, gyroscopic drift and in the presence of fast maneuvers by the settling time of gyroscopes and accelerometers. The proposed SBIR work is a re-visit of the autonomous calibration problem using Higher Order Sliding Mode (HOSM) control solutions. The HOSM approach allows the separation of c ...

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. (IS4S), with the Auburn University GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Lab (AU-Gavlab), will develop four complementary physics-enhanced navigation estimation algorithms. The Model-Based navigator combines the IMU measurements and actuator commands with a vehicle model. The Constraint-Based navigator applies artificial measurements during partially predictable periods o ...