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MDA, Air Force, and Raytheon require dimensionally stable and survivable SiC substrates and coatings for the Space and Precision Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS/PTSS) Track Sensor Telescope(s). System requirements include: operation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), surviving a nuclear event, optical performance across the 0.6-12 microns wavebands (VIS/MWIR/LWIR), and operational temperatures from ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking innovative component technologies that support improvements for manufacturing/performance and mass reduction for the Standard Missile 3 (SM3) Third Stage Rocket Motor (TSRM). To address this need, Valley Tech Systems (VTS) has developed a conceptual design of an advanced long duration extinguishment and re-ignition controllable solid propulsion TSRM Atti ...

Electronically protected Digital Receiver Exciters are critical technologies necessary for modern radars to meet challenging DOD radar requirements. Due to previous developmental and acquisition decisions, current DOD radars are often tied to OEM development, production and business cycles. The deliverables on this SBIR phase II challenges the exclusivity of OEM strategies that are proprietary, no ...

The Fifth Gait Technologies Phase II SBIR has technical objectives to produce the NICSSIM sensor tool, an Optical Flash simulator, as well as integrated NICSSIM IR Test-Bed. The NICSSIM sensor design and assessment tool includes a software suite which will provide an integrated design-of-experiment/simulation/data collection/data-analysis tool for use in performing tests in the NICS chamber, reduc ...

Our vision for the next generation missile and space propulsion is a flexible and non-toxic propulsion technology using AF-M315E monopropellant, offering variable thrust with a high degree of mission tailoring. Additionally, high density of AF-M315E monopropellant improves stage mass fraction and delivers performance metrics that exceed current toxic storable propellants. Current systems using AF- ...

This MDA Phase II “Super” SBIR program proposes to demonstrate three distinct, mission-enabling components for insertion in MDA/Navy Aegis BMD Standard Missile 3 Block IIA upgrade (SM3 BLK IIA). These components are: 1. The divert and ACS thruster nozzles in the kinetic warhead (KW). 2. The hot control fin in the Steering Control Section (SCS attached to the SSBM). 3. Structural insulation (in ...

West Coast Solutions (WCS) proposes the development of the SSC-X Stirling cryocooler to enable the deployment of infrared (IR) payloads on small satellite platforms. We achieve extreme miniaturization (

Incorporating the possible presence of delayed radar returns due to traveling waves, cavity resonance, and other physics-based features in the automatic object recognition (AOR) database can greatly improve the odds for successful discrimination. Mapping out the full range of variation in the radar return, over angle, frequency, and object variability, would seem to require vast computational reso ...

Interceptor communication avionics embody number of challenging requirements, including surviving the MDA-STD-001 radiation environment, the necessity for small size, the use of multiple frequency bands and the need to operate in an environment where the link channels may be interrupted or compromised by electromagnetic interference associated with nuclear weapons. In these environments the MDA l ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA-DV) is focusing on technology integration to improve the performance of next generation kill vehicles (KV). MDA recognizes that meeting the evolving agile threat will require synergizing next generation propulsion technologies into the kill vehicle structural backbone. Simply packaging the largest mass components into a traditional missile structure, as is seen wi ...