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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) faces the challenge of countering increasingly advanced missile threats. Hypervelocity projectiles (HVPs) offer the potential for highly effective and low-cost point defense against advanced missile threats. Efficient algorithms for HVP fly-out trajectory generation are needed, to provide real-time guidance from launch to intercept. These algorithms must react quic ...

Physical Sciences Inc. proposes to design, develop and demonstrate a novel insensitive munition compliant, high performance, green storable liquid propellant for advanced exo-atmospheric interceptors. This new propellant formulation can be treated as a monopropellant or as a bipropellant system with predicted specific impulse and density specific impulses exceeding AF-M315E, LMP-103S, and the dens ...

Future MDA interceptors require advanced propulsion capabilities, with higher performance in smaller, volume-constrained systems. Innovative propellant chemistry is needed to enable substantially greater performance in smaller packages. One factor limiting the maximum performance achievable in modern propellants is the slow ignition and combustion of the propellant’s metal fuel particles, typica ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) in collaboration with the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) proposes advancement of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) gyroscope as an inertial sensor for missile and hypervelocity projectile applications.In the NMR gyroscope, the quantum mechanical angular momentum spin in the nuclei of a xenon gas forms the sensing mechanism.Since this atomic vapor has no moving par ...

The goal of this project is to develop basic semiconductor components (field-effect transistors) that can be deployed in highly radioactive environments, such as nuclear plants, space, radioactive waste storage facilities. Ionizing radiation often has a detrimental influence on the performance of microelectronics components. We propose to develop a prototype microelectronics technology for use in ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. proposes to improve the volumetric efficiency and reduce the system weight of next-generation kill vehicles (KVs) by developing low profile, lightweight, multifunctional components. Specifically, SI2 will utilize in-house capabilities to design and additively manufacture (AM) a multi-functional structure that includes an S-band datalink antenna integrated within the structur ...

Triton Systems, Inc. proposes to develop a method for efficiently running federated simulations of atmospheric and orbital rocket flight. Tritons proposed method will be able to get information between time steps without the need for interpolation and will significantly reduce the computational time needed to run Federated simulations.Approved for Public Release | 18-MDA-9522 (23 Feb 18)

CU Aerospace (CUA) and team partners San Jose St. University (SJSU) and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC) propose to develop a robust epoxy resin regenerator capable of improving cryocooler efficiency by more than 30%, and to design an enhanced compressor motor capable of improving the cryocooler efficiency by more than 20%. LMSSC manufactures a space cryocooler that already meets most ...

An advanced hit detection technology is needed for MDA that can report impacts at hyper-velocities and at multiple hit locations. We present a technology with a high level of performance that leverages decades of hit technology experience and utilizes existing technologies developed under previous efforts. Our technology offers a low latency non-interpolated direct indicator of multiple hit locati ...

Under this Phase II SBIR effort Welkin Sciences will design and implement a Jammer Emulator hosted on the MDA sponsored CoLTS-LC hardware platform, originally built for nuclear-effects channel simulation.The Jammer Emulator will support emulation of a wide range of jamming methods, including frequency-following, which is not readily implemented using standard commercial test equipment.A remote int ...