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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 ...

"Avalanche photodetectors (APD) focal plane arrays (FPAs), with high sensitivity and large dynamic range are the most promising photodetectors for three dimensional imaging LADAR systems due to their low detectable powers and high performance. However, manypresent-day devices have poor bandwidths and noise properties because they exhibit comparable electron and hole impact ionization coefficients. ...

Modern military radar systems must be capable of operating effectively in the presence of severe jamming or electronic countermeasures (ECM). Use of low sidelobe antennas, especially for receive patterns, is the foremost method of reducing theof jamming; however, low sidelobe antennas alone are usually not sufficient. Several other techniques are used to minimize the effects of a jammer, but the ...

"Polyimides are an attractive candidate as photonics materials because of their high glass transition temperature and high decomposition temperatures. In the semiconductor industry, polyimides are used extensively as molds and protective overcoats inintegrated circuits. Therefore, Shayda Technologies, Inc. proposes to develop water soluble polyimides for photonic applications, specifically for o ...

"The Ground-Based Midcourse (GMD) Defense system must operate within demanding requirements - our lives depend upon its success. The end-game of the engagement sequence is planned to execute flawlessly to achieve hit-to-kill lethality. Many threat,system, and environmental parameters influence the success or failure of the engagement, e.g. aspect angle between the threat and kill vehicle at begi ...

"High-performance HgCdTe focal plane arrays (FPAs) sensing in the long-wavelength (LWIR) and very long wavelength (VLWIR) infrared spectral ranges are highly desirable for various applications supporting missile defense capabilities. Advanced sensorstructures based on dual or multi-color HgCdTe IRFPAs will enhance early missile threat detection while providing mid-course tracking capabilities and ...

"The primary objective of CU AerospaceOs Phase I work will be to develop all-gas-phase closed-cycle electrically assisted COIL (ElectriCOIL) technology. CU Aerospace (CUA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) believe that thischallenge can be surmounted with changes to gain generator research including 1) radically new O2(1D) generator subsystems which are amenable to closed- ...

Combatant Commands (CoComs) desire the ability to perform analyses on current plans, Blue Force Laydowns (BLFDs), and enemy Courses of Action (COA). These capabilities support critical decision making for Requests For Forces (RFFs) and assess whether modification of forces or additional forces should be applied to mission areas. Analyses must take into account resource performance, resource avai ...

"Composite cryogenic storage tanks will enable ABL and SBL program objectives by reducing structural weight, increasing reactant mass, reducing systems costs, and reducing risk to the programs. A recent development in composite materials design formultifunctional damage mitigation is proposed as a solution to the microcracking problem for composite tanks for storage of cryogens. By incorporating ...

"he development of embedded software systems is commonly plagued by misseddeadlines, faulty behavior, and non-reusable, brittle code. The cause ofthese problems can commonly be tracked to a failure to reuse existing codeeffectively; "reuse" actually means copy-and-modify in practice. A betterapproach is to "refactor" existing source code into smaller, more manageablecomponents, place these compo ...