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Chemical manufacturers require high accuracy/high sensitivity pressure sensors to efficiently monitor the various manufacturing systems and processes in the chemical plant, to ensure any changes proceed in a safe and reliable manner, adhering to expected standards and practices. NIST also has a need for highly accurate pressure measurements, especially determining the thermo-physical properties of ...

This Phase II program is seeking debris ejection data during the post burn-out period of a solid rocket motor in an exoatmospheric environment for the development and verification of analytic models. Control Vision, Inc. proposes developing an advanced hyperspectral sensor to increase the understanding of solid rocket motor debris. Approved for Public Release | 16-MDA-8863 (22 September 16)

Our innovation is a green-propellant, rocket engine that provides a combination of cost, performance, and reliability that is superior to all current solid and liquid propellant alternatives.Our Plug Cluster Engine (PCE) will achieve order-of-magnitude reductions in recurring cost without sacrificing performance or reliability through a combination of simplicity, design and operating margin, and e ...

IERUS is suggesting a program to test a (fuel) liquid engine, and modify the engine parameters to vary test target signatures. Accurate representations of these signatures in terms of spectral profile and magnitude is important to full system level testing. Approved for Public Release | 17-MDA-9219 (31 May 17)

Target vehicles are designed to be threat representative in the signatures space. While traditional threat fidelity efforts have focused on the mockup for the lethal object and intentional countermeasures, the launch vehicle stages can often have significant impact on the classification and discrimination problem. IERUS is suggesting a program to test a (fuel) liquid engine, and modify the engin ...

Computational methods are used to interpret the signature of the debris field produced due to impact with an interceptor and to predict the distribution of the debris field over time. The computational methods rely on accurate materials damage model that can predict the progression of damage to fragmentation. Peridynamics, an updated mesh-free continuum mechanics method, provides a theoretical bas ...

In this proposal, Reservoir Labs introduces an innovative approach to the problem of orbital track reconstruction and discrimination from radar data. We propose a technique that utilizes radar returns over a much longer observation window than is current (minutes and tens of minutes not seconds), for greatly improved integrated tracking and discrimination. As an example, we extract key informatio ...

The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) relies heavily on radar tracking information to make battle management decisions regarding the engagement of potential threats. Current BMDS radar tracking relies heavily on the Kalman Filter based algorithms to perform target tracking functions. To improve track accuracy over traditional Kalman Filter algorithms, IERUS will perform further development o ...

IERUS Technologies proposes to develop a novel, conformal, non-uniform, ultra-wideband array. The array will mount onto next generation kill vehicles such as MOKV and provide beam steering capability across an angular range large enough to eliminate KV attitude adjustments for communications. The IERUS array will provide continuous communications for KV to KV communications and support wideband co ...

This document presents Optical Sciences Corporation's Phase II SBIR proposal for the development and fabrication of an advanced thermally efficient infrared emitter technology which was successfully demonstrated in the Phase I effort. The innovative dynamic IR scene projector technology offers the potential for a high frame rate, flickerless, broadband, large format (4k x 4k), emitter arrays with ...