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In this SBIR solicitation, critical technology is sought that will enable construction of accelerator systems that are operable from moving military platforms or that will significantly reduce the overall footprint of currently available technology. Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) offers to develop one key enabling technology of a Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA), that holds promise ...

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The ability to collect data for conventional munitions in conditions of increasing acceleration and duration for hard target penetration is needed. Survivability and functionality of an electronic data recorder exposed to these acceleration levels (up 120,000 g) and shock loads is necessary as a result of higher velocity weapons and the use of precursor shape charge warheads to soften the target ...

Current high energy, multi-room test facilities operated in support of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) efforts suffer from a lack of robust sensors that can provide a cost-effective approach to obtaining dynamic pressure induced gas flows during internal detonations events. Exquadrum, Inc proposes a new sensor package that utilizes existing piezoelectric sensor technologies, but incorporat ...

While current Software and Systems Engineering (SSE) methodologies provide a viable means for technically trained professionals to address HSI concerns throughout the system lifecycle, they tend to be inadequate for non-technical users. To overcome this limitation, the proposed effort is concerned with developing and integrating a set of HSI templates with an existing SSE tool and thereby refining ...

The problems addressed by this proposal are related to the need for fast running models (FRMs) that predict damage imparted to structural components composed of UHPC materials, particularly slabs, by munitions related to their penetration and detonation. These FRMs are also to provide the resulting residual capacity of the component and account for the effects of multiple strikes. The FRMs need ...

State of the art Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) techniques must scale down in feature size for radiation effects in 45 nm processes, and also scale up in complexity to support radiation fault analysis of VLSI circuits. Recent access to commercial 45 nm CMOS Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technologies has increased the interest in this technology for rad-hard electronic applications due to the in ...

For various defense agencies, DNA profiling can reduce, eliminate and counter threats from unconventional warfare and WMDs. Rapid forensic DNA analysis on suspicious materials can provide crucial information on individuals involved in such activities, and this information can supply national defense personnel and warfighters with increased situational awareness. Currently in forensic DNA profili ...

The Inverse Free Electron Laser (IFEL) is a leading contender to demonstrate high gradient, high repetition rate laser acceleration for the next generation of small footprint, high energy (>200 MeV) accelerators for military applications. In the IFEL energy is transferred from a high power laser to an electron beam as they co-propagate through a magnetic undulator. The rapid development of laser t ...

With the current state of world events, the threat of explosives used against high-value targets is more pronounced than ever before. As a result, simulation of blast events and their effects on structures has become an increasingly vital capability. Current blast simulations on Central Processing Units (CPU) resources require a significant amount of computational time, limiting their overall valu ...