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Under this SBIR effort, the DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corporation (DAC) team proposes an innovative solution to the issue of post-break-up missile fragment tracking and break-up characterization. It will apply to the case where the in-flight missile break-up event is not directly observed. The objective is to track fragments and to determine as much information as possible regarding the nature of the e ...

Utron Kinetics proposes to develop high temperature advanced ceramic based composites of R-NZP, and Nano-Zirconia based advanced composites and their functional composites in near net shape geometries using UTRON's innovative, compact and cost-effective High Pressure Combustion Driven Powder Compaction (CDC) manufacturing technology. A 300 Ton or 400 Ton CDC Press will be used for the proposed wo ...

Specialized computing hardware, such as GPUs and FPGAs, can provide dramatically better performance than existing, CPU-based systems. This specialized hardware is readily available in the commercial market and widely used in high-performance computing systems, making it easy to achieve high performance per watt and per dollar. The major unsolved challenge in using specialized hardware efficientl ...

In the presence of a fast cook-off event, the propellant within a rocket motor can ignite, leading to a propulsive reaction or catastrophic explosion. To mitigate this risk, the Department of Defense (DoD) has Insensitive Munition (IM) requirements which are governed by MIL-STD-2105. To pass fast cook-off (FCO) testing, MIL-STD-2105 requires interceptor systems to achieve a burning, non-propulsi ...

In this proposed effort, we will develop a field programmable gate array (FPGA) protection tool, called OmniShield. OmniShield is a combined software and hardware solution, which can automatically integrate the original design with our protection modules. Moreover, users can configure the protection modules according to hardware constraints and security requirements. The proposed techniques in ...

While lightning protection has been applied to various small diameter composite missiles, large diameter composite missiles also require viable lightweight solutions for minimizing or eliminating direct lightning strike effects without significantly reducing battle space performance. For purposes of this proposal, our team will focus on the development of lightning strike protection surface skins ...

This research effort will develop a heterogeneous, high-performance computing platform for distributed modeling and simulation applications capable of providing flexible configurations of CPU, GPU and FPGA resources that use a simple, common and open programming model (OpenCL). The use of OpenCL enables functionally equivalent algorithms to be deployed across CPU, GPU and FPGA resources. Deploym ...

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A Transient Protection Device is proposed in order to decrease the sensitivity of avionics to power bus transients. The device utilizes an array of ultra-capacitors for energy storage in order to provide a local power buffer to isolate vehicle loads from interruptions of the main power bus. In addition to energy storage, a set of electronics is included in the design to facilitate the integratio ...

Miniaturized base metal electrodes (BME) multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) are of great interest for future missile applications as designers are striving to achieve smaller, lighter, cheaper, faster and better electronic assemblies without sacrificing long-term performance. Unfortunately, screening, reliability and qualifications criteria are either not available or not standardized. In the ...