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Physical Sciences Inc. has successfully demonstrated the operational capability of a filament wound composite case designed to mitigate against slow cook-off, fast cook-off, bullet and fragment impact threats for solid rocket motor (SRM) systems. The implemented manufacturing, quality control and assurance processes enable production of small and large diameter motors to satisfy strategic and tact ...

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 ...

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 MDA’s high altitude plume code, SOCRATES-P, to model plume signatures with high fidelity. In Phase I PSI demonstrated the model validation approach by measuring the velocity dependent cross sec ...

Over many data collection campaigns, a large number of propulsion related signature events have been observed across an extended range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The current suite of plume modeling tools contains the basic framework for flowfield and signature generation, but lacks the underlying physical mechanisms and supporting property databases to properly account for alternate waveband ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) remains a primary source of globally referenced position and navigation information for elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).Precise guidance of munitions and missiles, as well as navigation for air, land and sea forces, provided by GPS are strategic advantages for the US military in contested or anti-access/anti-denial regions.An adversary di ...

As the United States makes strides in developing, testing, and deploying missile defense technology, the human element remains core to the integrated, layered ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) architecture. Human operators oversee the command and control at the system, component, and element level across a vast array of networked ground-, sea-, and space-based sensors and interceptors to eff ...

The objective of this effort is to develop and test a multi-sensor data fusion algorithm suite that will fuse information from multiple electro-optic (EO) and radio frequency (RF) sensors to estimate tracked objects physical properties and dynamics for the purpose of aiding in predicting signatures and features for system target characterization. Assessments of improvements obtainable by using ...

A key requirement for IR sensors in interceptor seekers is to continue to image through adverse environments, including the radiation from nuclear events. This radiation hardening requirement is addressed with a multifaceted approach that includes a novel filter, implemented in the unit cell, that mitigates the effects of gammas, betas, and protons, while leaving the IR signal unaltered. Other rad ...

The Phase I research under this topic conducted by Lithiumstart demonstrated severaltechnologies that provide a path toward subscale and full scale demonstration of a battery based pulse power source for small, lightweight, portable lasers. These enabling technologies included robust laser welding of cell to cell connectors and high speed data monitoring.Both of these technologies impact the safet ...

MagiCom proposes to provide a wideband, highly reliable, survivable, high speed, in-flight communications system for communications between fire control and interceptors in an operational fading channel environment using an adaptive and reconfigurable software defined modem concept.Approved for Public Release 14-MDA-7739 (18 March 14).