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Trusted Semiconductor Solutions will demonstrate how a COTS FPGA can withstand natural and manmade radiation, and how our radiation circumvention and recovery approach enables high density electronic payloads needed for next generation guided missile and space applications. We will develop a prototype FPGA demonstration vehicle that utilizes an Intel Agilex F-series COTS FPGA and our operate-throu ...

The focus of this STTR proposal is on using Physics-Informed Machine Learning (PIML) and surrogate modeling to reduce the bottleneck of High-Fidelity Aeroelastic Stability models that are required for any airworthiness certification.Traditional approaches to solving targeted problems such as aviation certification often require the use of physics-based modeling and simulation (M&S) in combination ...

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions is proposing an approach to enable use of State of the Art (SOTA) Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) devices in naturally occurring or manmade radiation environments. Our approach marries a companion radiation sensing, circumvention, and recovery chipset to a COTS device. This solution detects and circumvents radiation without modifying or redesigning the COTS part. Th ...

OSEMI and UCSB, with support from Lockheed-Martin’s Santa Barbara Focalplane, propose to advance Type-2 Strained-Layer Superlattice (T2SLS) long wave infrared (LWIR) materials and detector technology. We specifically propose to investigate adding increased amounts of lead (Sb) in indium arsenide tin (InAsSb) - based SLS structures to increase LWIR absorption and detector quantum efficiency. We s ...

The overall objective of this program is to develop an open platform of strategic radiation hardened Intellectual Property (IP) on the commercially available 45nm silicon on insulator (SOI) foundry technology from Global Foundries to enable development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), system on a chips (SoCs), and other custom integrated circuits. Trusted Semiconductor Solution ...

The low growth temperature enabled by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is known to be useful in generating cubic crystalline nitride-based semiconductors. In 2011 Novikov applied the MBE growth technique to achieve free-standing cubic gallium nitride (GaN) templates up to 75 microns thick with a 50mm diameter using standard 1 micron per hour growth rates. In this Phase I effort, OSEMI proposes to appl ...

Propose to develop an adaptive forward-facing cavity nose (AFFCN) dome component that will enable hypersonic interceptor missiles (HIM) to control spontaneous bow shock oscillations (BSO) in order to reduce aero-optic effects on the dome to improve precision guidance capacity of forward looking seekers. The proposed fundamental research on AFFCN will lead to new mechanism to modulate BSO for effic ...

An innovative, new seeker gimbal design featuring “drop in” integration into the missile tube. Transporting, warehousing, and other aspects of logistical support is aided by its innovative and rugged design. A major improvement over traditional gimbals that require “ship within a bottle” assembly techniques. Most gimbals require interior brackets bolted into the missile tube before the fra ...

Ross-Hime Designs, Inc. (RHD) Minneapolis, Minnesota is responding to MDAs Phase I SBIR solicitation Advanced Lightweight, Low Cost High-g Seeker Gimbal. RHDs design features 40 degrees of Az/El and is built almost entirely out of COTS components used in current production seeker gimbals. Building on the past SBIR contract Lightweight, Low-Cost Seeker Gimbals Army Space Missile Defense Command con ...

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions will demonstrate how high-reliability substrate material, leading-edge commercial memories, advanced manufacturing processing, and our radiation circumvention and recovery approach enables high density electronic payloads needed for next generation guided missile and space applications. We will develop a prototype system-in-package (SiP) that utilizes commercial mem ...