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Missile defense takes place in an uncertain and dynamic environment, so multi-sensor fusion must be employed to aggregate and merge disparate data from the battlefield. However, the fusion process is hindered by the vast amount of uncertainty in operational contexts, such as imprecise measurements and varying environmental conditions. Various algorithms and fusion processes have been developed to ...

The efforts will leverage advanced multi-scale material modeling, multi-physics additive manufacturing (AM) simulation technologies to suggest optimized AM process and build parameters before printing in an attempt to deliver quality Direct Metal Laser Sinteringparts.Components/materials fabricated will meet MDA/Raytheon specifications. The qualification of each component will be shown by DOE, and ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) will design and demonstrate an Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE) that directly targets the need for advanced cyber network defense training for the MDA. The proposed new enabling capability will support cyber training against an intelligent red team to enhance cyber operator trainee cyber-attack recogn ...

In this program, Freedom Photonics will develop a novel, miniature gyroscope that meets the requirements of the MDA. This gyroscope will be based on our prior work and demonstration of the gyroscope with similar performance, but larger footprint. Approved for Public Release | 18-MDA-9710 (6 Jul 18)

Nanohmics proposes to develop a novel high-G-capable chip-scale accelerometer based on modern MEMS developments.The system is designed to be robust against electromagnetic interference and will demonstrate an innovative approach for advanced accelerometer technology that enhances future Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) high-g operability and survivability.The Phase I program will culminate in a h ...

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 ...

High-fidelity trajectory propagators are fundamental to the simulation and analysis of launch vehicles, missiles, and satellites. Applications in fields ranging from missile threat analysis to flightpath optimization seek fast and accurate solutions to large numbers of trajectories in federated simulation environments. Due to their robustness, well-known properties, and straightforward implementat ...

The United States has fielded a layered missile defense system to counter and defeat current hostile missile threats. However, evolving adversarial capabilities requires new propulsion technologies that are highly responsive, agile and compatible to current MDA interceptor platforms. To meet this evolving need, Valley Tech Systems (VTS) is proposing the development of a high performance Affordable ...

Battlefield Telecommunications Systems proposes to build low delay low complexity lossless compression software framework and hardware prototype to be integrated in the telemetry system of a target vehicle test bed. The proposed compression algorithm is specially designed for target vehicle telemetry data, designed to reduce the dataset redundancy through the prediction by extracting the characte ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking innovative improvements of mature product and material technologies that address increased kinematic performance and containment through reduction of mass, while maintaining or increasing performance. To meet this need, Valley Tech Systems (VTS) has developed, through the MDA SBIR program, a solid, high-fidelity prototype Extinguishable Divert and Attitu ...