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Contractor will develop innovative concepts and techniques to develop target recognition approaches focused on cognitive synthesis of current and emerging sensor data sources.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

This effort seeks to develop training and operational displays that optimize user reaction times, minimize cognitive load, perform attention cueing, and present large quantities of data in an understandable fashion. The Warfighter requires advances in Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) to provide a usable and optimized system for missile defense.Key requirements of such a system are a rapid developmen ...

IERUS proposes the advancement and realization of recent academic research into tracking technology.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

Research seeks to correct the limitations of peridynamic theory that underestimates failure strains in ductile materials.Effort will revise and update current state of the art peridynamics models for ductile fracture expanding model to include temperature and strain rate effects while applying to the prediction of fragmentation in aluminum alloys.Peridynamics is a mesh-free theory of continuum mec ...

Optical Sciences Corporation proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of, and present a plan for, the development of an advanced thermally efficient emitter technology.The proposed concept offers the potential for a high frame rate, flickerless, broadband, large format (4k x 4k), emitter array with high apparent temperatures and efficient thermal emission. This emitter array IR projector system wil ...

IERUS Technologies proposes to develop a novel, conformal, non-uniform, ultra-wideband array.The array will mount onto next generation interceptors and provide beam steering capability across an angular range large enough to support continuous communications without reorientation requirements.The IERUS array will provide continuous communications across the targeted frequency bands.The proposed ar ...

The efficiency of future missile defense systems may be improved by increasing the interceptor vehicle payload on each launch vehicle.The objective of this effort is to demonstrate a technique, which is mass and energy efficient, for controlling the safe and precise deployment of those interceptor vehicles.Pairing programmable permanent magnets arrays with a controlled array of electromagnets in a ...

Current focal plane array (FPA) technologies for imaging in low-light conditions in the short wave infrared (SWIR) are limited by poor quantum efficiency and/or poor noise characteristics. To address this need, a new SWIR-sensitive linear-mode avalanche photodiode detector array, will be optimized for low-light imaging, fabricated, and demonstrated. Unlike existing SWIRavalanche photodiodes (APDs) ...

"This proposal describes a plan to meet the Missile Defense Agencys requirement to develop a framework for missile defense operations planning with embedded training, including missile defense threat engagement operations management planning, operations contingency planning, and training of operators to execute those plans.A system that Integrates planning and training operations will greatly bene ...

The proposed effort is to develop and demonstrate a missile defense planner architectural framework that allows dynamic instantiation of system components and or capabilities, as well as providing simple low-bandwidth methods of data sharing between processes. The approach will also demonstrate how the proposed architecture could be used to simplify the evolution of missile defense product develop ...