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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 ...

This proposed SBIR Phase II effort continues the development of rugged MEMS inertial measurement units (IMUs) for operation in high shock and vibration operation environment of missiles, and other military and commercial platforms with harsh environment characteristics. The primary outcome of the proposed effort is a 6-axis highly-reliable and durable tactical-grade MEMS IMU with inclusion of vibr ...

A recent flight test of a hypersonic vehicle resulted in failure that was traced to thermostructural damage in the carbon-carbon aeroshell. When the vehicle was exposed to peak thermal gradients, interlaminar shear stresses were created that caused external plies to delaminate. The structural failures caused aerodynamic disturbances that led to vehicle instability. The program proposed here seeks ...

Accessing a freight locomotive is one of the most basic, daily tasks performed by a railroad engineer. However, this task has historically been difficult due to several factors such as the first step which may be 19 inches above the top of the rail, weather conditions which may make the steps slippery, and the fact that the ground surrounding the locomotive may be uneven or covered in debris or ba ...

Weapons systems managed by the MDA including the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) rely upon the integrity and security of complex Integrated Circuits (ICs) to control their functionality. Adversarial side-channel attacks to ICs greatly compromise this functionality as well as the security of Critical Program Information (CPI) stored in these ICs.Nokomis has definitively demonstrated that mo ...

There are two main objectives of the follow-on Phase II for Small Business Innovation Research Topic N08-199.First is to deliver a portable Splash Impact Measurement System (SIMS) with capablility of mapping the debris field surrounding an engagement event in broad ocean areas.This mapping will provide the precise location and time of all objects impacting the sea surface.The second objective is t ...

This effort will investigate jitter reduction mechanisms for primary mirrors of airborne directed energy weapons. The investigation will cover detailed modeling, implementation for active control and a subscale experiment.

The BMDS is being developed as a fully integrated, layered defense capable of defending against all ranges of threats. A critical aspect of this development is an integrated approach to interceptor allocation. A model-based framework for optimizing multi-layer BMDS performance, developing interceptor firing doctrine, and providing for adaptive, real-time interceptor allocation was developed in P ...

Characteristics of missile plume signature emissions have a great potential to enhance defensive capabilities in a number of important areas related to early (boost-phase) detection and identification of the missile system/rocket motor. Missile defense technologies where plume modeling plays a significant role include: early warning launch detection (ELDT), post launch warning detection; missile t ...

The time-varying plume infra-red (IR) signature modulation provides a marker that allows a plume signal to be discriminated, in frequency space, from a cluttered background. From the perspective of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), it provides a novel opportunity for Early Launch Detection & Tracking (ELDT) of threat targets. For BMD-related development of guidance sensors for interceptors, the mod ...