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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 ...

Next generation high-speed missile defense systems [1] require advanced thermal protection systems (TPS) to meet performance objectives, cf. Figure 1. The development of these advanced systems requires the continued research of materials that have a TPS pedigree, i.e., carbon-carbon (C-C) composites. In particular, data is needed to support hydro-code modeling and analysis of structural responses ...

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 ...

This effort is aimed at increasing lethality of kinetic energy warheads by developing metal-based reactive materials.Fully-dense nanocomposite powders capable of reacting in absence of an external oxidizer will be prepared by arrested reactive milling. AlMoO3, AlCuO, AlI2O5, MgS, and BTi will be prepared and combined with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) to boost their energy density. Prepared powde ...

The focus of this Phase I effort is to analyze and quantify improvements to tracking accuracy. Improvements to tracking accuracy are to be quantified via measures of performance such as miss distance, track purity and continuity in a variety of multiple target tracking scenarios.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

Technological advances have facilitated weapons systems capable of simultaneously supporting multiple missions leading to cost efficiencies and greater operational flexibility.Future systems capable of deploying multiple payloads from a single missile will enable various targets to be attacked with a single launch allowing more efficient use of limited and valuable resources.For such a system to w ...

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 ...