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The use of GPUs in space is desirable as they provide means to boost the performance of CPU-based computers in a spacecraft. This will enable the processing of raw sensing data on-board, reducing significantly the amount of data that needs to be transmitted to the ground. This represents savings in power and radio link bandwidth/complexity. Unfortunately, as all microelectronics, modern GPUs are s ...

Q-Peak proposes a compact novel multifunction high-power isolator optical, leveraging several developed innovations into a robust package to allow a significant power and performance increase as compared to current fiber isolators. Specifically, the use of KTF as the Faraday medium and the integration of a fiber collimator and mode-stripper provides a path to extremely high forward and backwards p ...

This research will develop a 128x128 on 30 µm pixel pitch radiation hardened Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) system for spaced-based long range imaging. This advanced LADAR system will be integrated with an InGaAsP-based linear-mode Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) optimized for 1.06 µm operation. Studies will be completed to optimize the APD structure for radiation hardness, achieving gains ...

In the near thirty years since the BEAR experiment, many technologies directly or indirectly applicable to an advanced neutral particle beam (NPB) have emerged due to other DOD programs, commercial investments, or other government programs. Key elements of a space-based NPB system include mass, size, and efficiency. The work proposed herein results from investments in the commercial arena, primari ...

Triton will develop a recoverable and reusable air launch missile pallet to assist the government in reducing launch cost per mission. The current air launch missile pallet is an expensive one-time use item and it is not designed to be recovered or reused for another mission. Triton’s design offers an innovative solution for an air launch missile pallet that is low cost, modular, safe, reliable, ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop structurally-integrated printed electronics for interceptors that conform to the contours of the missile body. Leveraging SI2’s extensive electronics design, additive manufacturing (AM), and structural design experience, SI2’s flexible electronics will be adapted to the shape or form of the embedded structure and will withstand launch and space ...

Successful missile defense is critical to the security of the United States, its deployed forces, and its allies. Across numerous simulations, tests, and operational scenarios, the Government amasses large quantities of complex high-dimensional data describing missile defense outcomes. While Missile Defense Agency (MDA) analysts need to use this data to better understand and improve missile defens ...

The Triton Multisensory Interactive Data Analysis System (MIDAS) is an innovative method to present, manipulate, and analyze large multi-dimensional data sets to revolutionize the systems analysis of modeling & simulation and test data. MIDAS includes cutting-edge methods, techniques and tools in the manipulation, analysis, and presentation of extremely large multi-dimensional data sets to assist ...

System-level simulations of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) generate extremely large quantities of highly multidimensional data, which analysts at the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) must explore and analyze to infer insights and relationships. Existing tools based on automated routine scripts are ill-equipped to handle the volume and complexity of these data, requiring piecemeal analysis ...

High G Aerodynamic Controls | Approved for Public Release 18-MDA-9707 (3 Jul 18)