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A critical component of the Ballistic Missile Defense System is the high power radar. These radars support the capability to identify, assess, and engage threats to the U.S., deployed forces, and allies. The current radar deployments utilize single-instance, symmetric multiprocessor machines. Both HP and SGI SMP processors have become or are becoming obsolete and the radars will require an upgr ...

The lack of correlation and common track numbering between the multiple data sources reporting Ballistic Missile events has proven repeatedly to be a major issue across all levels of Air and Missile Defense. This premise has been exemplified in both Operational and Live, Virtual Constructive (LVC) environments. The key to utilizing this data effectively for Battle Management is turning the data ...

Razor Technologies proposes to develop and demonstrate a total hypergolic propellant (both fuel & oxidizer) leak detection system. Long life, small, low power consumption, inexpensive, conducting polymer sensors for the measurement of fuel and oxidizer concentrations have been successfully demonstrated in Phase I of this project. The proposed Phase II research will further optimize and refine th ...

This Phase II proposal describes a Trusted Radar concept, which is an innovative concept developed by Torch Technologies to support a key BMDS C2BMC function called Sensor Registration Health & Status Monitoring (SRHSM). The Trusted Radar concept is designed to address the significant problems associated with relying on High Accuracy Ephemeris (HAE) satellites as reference targets for performing ...

Understanding the response of solid rocket motors under cook-off conditions is important to the safety of the military’s weapon arsenal. In this SBIR, CFDRC, teamed with Merrill Beckstead of Brigham Young University (BYU) and ATK Launch Systems, proposes to develop a software toolkit for simulating the response of solid rocket motors (SRM) to fast cook-off events. The complete software package w ...

Increases in amount and diversity of high-throughput data presents tremendous organizational and analysis challenges to researchers. Our objective in this effort is to address these challenges by designing and implementing a database management system (cipherDB) for the storage, management, analysis, and visualization of diverse biological data types. The Phase I design and implementation of ciphe ...

Following a very successful Phase I program, INTUITIVE proposes to continue the development of the standalone, Laser Ordnance Safe-Arm Distributor (LOSAD) to be used as a combination safe-arm device and laser energy distributor in this Phase II effort. LOSAD addresses the current need for a laser firing system safe-arm in existing and future MDA programs. The LOSAD utilizes INTUITIVE’s basic ‘ ...

Missile defense testing activities will require the capability to perform sensor test, evaluation, and characterization of various Laser Radar sensor classes in a HWIL environment. This effort demonstrates the use of COTS computational equipment to satisfy the rigorous real-time requirements of this mission.

Radar discrimination represents one of the most critical functions in the Ballistic Missile Defense engagement process. Radar discrimination relies upon the timely and accurate collection of a set of complex feature measurements. The ability for the sensor to make these measurements as well as the ambiguity of the measurements is highly dependent upon sensor capabilities and sensor / threat geom ...

AEgis Technologies Group Inc. proposes to develop a multichannel multichip module (MCM) capable of high-speed digital-to-analog data conversion and suitable for integration into the next generation of Ladar and Radar HWIL test infrastructure. AEgis will leverage existing SBIR programs by utilizing key components and integrating them in a single subsystem module. The resulting MCM will be capable ...