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Power electronic converters are essential in every MDA vehicle, with use in critical systems ranging from electric power management applications, to power distribution, to on-board servo motor/actuator drivers. Advancing state-of-the-art power electronics technologies through the use of SiC semiconductors will produce significant savings across the board in almost all areas of MDA power management ...

Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (CRG) proposes to provide a complete conformal coating solution to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). CRG developed a conformal coating under a previous anti-tamper SBIR program. The manufacturing process and proprietary mixing procedures have been developed for this baseline formulation, and independent laboratory testing has produced good results. This formulation ...

In Phase I, Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (CRG), proposed to fabricate solid rocket motors with increased erosion performance and improved manufacturability by integrating MATECH’s zero-erosion Hafnium Carbide (HfC) insulation system into CRG’s innovative rotomolding manufacturing process. These integrated technologies are primary focused on axial propulsion systems, as rotomolding is best ...

Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (CRG), proposes the further development of heat-activated pressure venting mechanisms actuated by shape memory polymers (SMP) for meeting insensitive munitions (IM) requirements for ammunition containers and solid rocket motors. SMP composite materials provide the same strength as conventional composites at normal operating temperatures. However, at a threshold a ...

EDAptive Computing, Inc. [ECI] team is pleased to submit this Phase II proposal in response to SBIR solicitation number MDA05-051: Software Formalisms. By its assigned mission MDA must develop some of the most complex software systems in the world under the most extreme real-time reliability and correctness constraints imaginable. These systems must work the first time and every time, yet there ...

This is a unique, practical solution to the tampering prevention problem, because even if reverse engineers know exactly how it works - they cannot overcome it. Similar to human DNA typing, SENTINEL checks the electronic power signature that characterizes a volume operating in its environment. Any volume of or individual analog, digital, or RF elements of any system have a unique power signature ...

MRLets Technologies, Inc. proposes to develop a suite of algorithms and software for registration of track and report data from IR and radar sensors. The proposed registration system is able to jointly identify correspondence between data from distributed platforms and to estimate sensor bias parameters. The system relies on three technologies to meet the challenges of the project. First, a distri ...

The enabling solid state semiconductor technology in radar systems supporting the U. S. Army's ballistic missile defense program increases its vulnerability to the effects of high power, fast rise-time EMP, HPM, and UWB pulses. In recent years, significant advances in the technology used to produce these pulses have been made in the United States and abroad, increasing the need for effective prot ...

In this Phase I program teaming with system integrator, Powdermet will develop a low cost light weight, high strength, chlorine, iodine, helium, ammonia, caustic compatible corrosion resistant, high performance, long life capable, maintenance free Self- Lapping Chemical Valves for ABL-COIL Laser by corrosion resistant particle reinforced light weight superalloy MMC using CVD coated powders

Spectra Research has teamed with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) to employ an innovative technique that uses advanced radiator materials and methodologies, such as fragmented aperture arrays, to develop an integrated antenna array that functions as a radar antenna. Many of the design issues and tradeoffs related to phased array radars are driven by the intrinsic generation of a single trans ...