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AN IMPORTANT PROBLEM IN THE AREA OF IR FOCAL PLANE ARRAY IMAGING IS THE FAST AND EFFICIENT MULTIPLEXING AND PROCESSING OF THE SIGNALS FROM THE DETECTOR ARRAY. A NEW APPROACH TO THIS PROBLEM UTILIZING THE RECENTLY DEVELOPED ACOUSTIC CHARGE TRANSPORT (ACT) DEVICE IS PRESENTED. THE ACT DEVICE COMBINES SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE AND CHARGE TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES TO ACHIEVE A LOW-NOISE, HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULT ...

A FEASIBILITY STUDY IS PROPOSED ON A NOVEL IDEA FOR A DESIGN OF A SEMI-SMART PROJECTILE FOR KINETIC ENERGY WEAPONS, AND IN PARTICULAR, EML WEAPONS. THE TECHNOLOGY FOR THIS DESIGN IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. IT WOULD BE INTRINSICALLY HARD TO THE 100000 G ACCELERATIONS EXPERIENCE BY AN EML PROJECTILE AND WOULD HAVE A GREATLY IMPROVED PROBABILITY OF HIT (AND KILL) OVER A CLASSICAL DUMB PROJECTILE AGAINST ...

A NEW SYSTEM, THE ANNULAR FLOW ELECTROTHERMAL PLUG RAMJET, IS PROPOSED AS A ALTERNATIVE TO CHEMICAL ROCKETS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS AS A KINETIC ENERGY WEAPON. THIS SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING THE HYPERVELOCITIES NECESSARY IN REASONABLE LAUNCHER LENGTHS, PRIMARILY BECAUSE IT DOES NOT ACCELERATE EITHER THE PROPELLANT OR THE PROPULSION SYSTEM REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE HYPERVELOCITIES. ...

The Public Safety Community (Community) would like to share information between jurisdictions, but need to trust with a reasonable certainty that the users viewing this information are who they say they are. Similarly, the Federal government and other organizations need to be reasonably sure that their new users are accessing the right information online. Identity proofing a user, either remotely ...

Sherlock provides a data mining solution that automates the discovery of correlations and causations between BMDS performance and critical factors within large amounts of missile defense simulation data. The future missile defense simulations will include digital simulations capable of generating orders of magnitude more data than can be handled by the current MDA Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL ...

In this effort we will develop a concept for the design of a high level assembly focused on radiation hardening a GPU for space based use. While our design minimizes size, weight, and power, its primary goal is GPU survival in missions in the inner Van Allen belt. We will perform modeling, simulations, and analysis of the critical elements of our design to quantify the amount of radiation received ...

Using the current air launch pallet for MDA target air launch missions is an expensive one time use item and is not designed to be recovered or reused for another mission. IERUS proposes to perform an analysis of alternatives of advanced materials and innovative production methodologies to provide an alternative air launch pallet that satisfies program requirements while reducing cost and simplify ...

Demonstration and firing of thermally enhanced alcohol fuel w/Nitrous Oxide at 900 Lbf. To address the need posed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), TGV proposes a “˜green’ engine that uses a simple blend of liquid blend of fuels and TGV’s engine technology. TGV proposes modifying our existing 1,000 lbf engine that we have tested to demonstrate and get thermal data using nitrous as the ox ...

Uncertainty Reduction in High Speed Flight Vehicle Modeling | Approved for Public Release 18-MDA-9707 (3 Jul 18)