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Research conducted in Phase I identified a range of data sources providing vehicle related information to consumers shopping around or interested in knowing more about vehicles. Majority of the commercial data sources focused on vehicle features, new/used/CPO pricing, and vehicles listings. Such data sources lacked safety as their central focus, which is a concern for U.S. Department of Transporta ...

Seed Innovations applies our experience in framework development, modeling and simulation, automatic code generation, and software architecture to accomplish the research for the SBIR topic: Model Level Integrated Simulation Architecture for Collaborative Development. Through the research on this project, Seed Innovations designs and develops a prototype system, the Flexible Integrated Simulation ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking alternative energy storage solutions that can offer both high energy and high power performance without compromising spacecraft mass or cost budgets. The System for Ultrahigh Rate Gravimetrically Efficient Storage (SURGES), is a drop-in replacement to current spacecraft battery systems. In a single package, SURGES combines emerging high energy and power ...

A simulation optimization tool can exploit existing BMDS simulation models to streamline the scenario generation analysis process. Our Phase II project will focus on using a simulation optimization approach to solve the problem of generating a minimal collection of test scenarios, using the minimum number of shared scenario components that meets a required set of test objectives. Each individual s ...

We propose maturation and extension of an innovative batch algorithm for track scene history reconstruction, and track refinement conditioned on this history, given input source track data from one or more sensors. The envisioned method is designed to process both kinematic data (e.g., track reports) and feature/discrimination data (e.g., useful to distinguish objects seen by multiple sensors to s ...

Hypervelocity projectiles (HVPs) offer the potential for highly effective and low-cost point defense against missile threats. Classical guidance schemes are ill-suited to the unpowered dynamics of the HVP, as they fail to account for its changing capabilities and limited energy budget over the course of the fly-out. Numerica’s solution consists of an automated real-time fly-out trajectory optimi ...

Optical Engines productized and ruggedized product line of patented etched air taper combiners has been operating in the field for over 5 years at pump power levels over 2kW. These pump/signal combiners have a pump efficiency of over 99%. At power levels much greater than 2kW, excessive heating and damage occurs not in the combiner itself but rather in the passive fiber that links the combiner to ...

Contractor will develop innovative concepts and techniques to develop target recognition approaches focused on cognitive synthesis of current and emerging sensor data sources.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

A multifunctional improved thermal protection system (TPS) is proposed to reduce weight and to incorporate electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and lightning strike protection. TDA has previously done proof-of-concept studies with a heavily modified carbon fiberphenolic TPS. Our material is mechanically robust and exceedingly simple to manufacture. In this project, we will incorporate EMI ...

Current large format focal plane array (FPA) imaging sensors for imaging in low-light conditions in the near infrared / short wavelength infrared (NIR/SWIR) regions are limited by poor signal-to-noise. Electron avalanche photodiodes (e-APDs) using HgCdTe provide internal gain with very little excess noise and allow high signal-to-noise in low-light conditions. Cooling the e-APD SWIR FPA to 77K red ...